Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2W. and R. Chambers, 1876 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... known practice . Eight bells , which form an octave or diatonic scale , make the most perfect peal . The variety of changes or permutations of order that can be rung on a peal , increases enormously with the number of bells : 3 bells ...
... known practice . Eight bells , which form an octave or diatonic scale , make the most perfect peal . The variety of changes or permutations of order that can be rung on a peal , increases enormously with the number of bells : 3 bells ...
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... known as the B. , and gives name to the famous statue of Apollo . In France , and with us , the word has come to signify any kind of summer - house or place of refreshment . BELVEDERE ( Kochia scoparia , Chenopodium scoparium , or ...
... known as the B. , and gives name to the famous statue of Apollo . In France , and with us , the word has come to signify any kind of summer - house or place of refreshment . BELVEDERE ( Kochia scoparia , Chenopodium scoparium , or ...
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... known by wailings and shrieks , premonitory of a death in the family over which she is presumed to exercise a kind of guardianship . The name of this tutelary demon is supposed to be from the Irish Celtic ben or bean , a woman ; and ...
... known by wailings and shrieks , premonitory of a death in the family over which she is presumed to exercise a kind of guardianship . The name of this tutelary demon is supposed to be from the Irish Celtic ben or bean , a woman ; and ...
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... known examples . Many of the plants of this order are spiny shrubs ; some are perennial herbaceous plants . Their leaves are alternate , their flowers sometimes solitary , sometimes in racemes or panicles . The calyx consists of 3 , 4 ...
... known examples . Many of the plants of this order are spiny shrubs ; some are perennial herbaceous plants . Their leaves are alternate , their flowers sometimes solitary , sometimes in racemes or panicles . The calyx consists of 3 , 4 ...
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... known regard- perceives in the hostile army his relatives , the Indian writer of apothegms . friends of his youth , and his teachers , he hesitates ing the circumstances of his life . A legendary story to commence the struggle , held ...
... known regard- perceives in the hostile army his relatives , the Indian writer of apothegms . friends of his youth , and his teachers , he hesitates ing the circumstances of his life . A legendary story to commence the struggle , held ...
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Page 95 - ... shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 89 - Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 32 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 13 - He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
Page 88 - That if any person, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife,' whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling aiding or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Page 345 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
Page 118 - Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church ; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 45 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Page 115 - Scotland, shall conceal her being with child during the whole period of her pregnancy, and shall not call for and make use of help or assistance in the birth, and if the child be found dead or be amissing, the mother being lawfully convicted thereof, shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding two years, in such common gaol or prison as the Court before which she is tried shall direct or appoint.
Page 94 - ... no acceptance of any bill of exchange, whether inland or foreign, made after the 31st day of December, 1856, shall be sufficient to bind or charge any person, unless the same be in writing on such bill, or if there be more than one part of such bill on one of the said parts, and signed by the acceptor or some person duly authorised by him...