Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Scotland . As the liberty of public worship in places of meeting by themselves was yielded to dissenters , by the various governments of Europe , only with reluctance , the use of bells in chapels as a summons to divine service is not ...
... Scotland . As the liberty of public worship in places of meeting by themselves was yielded to dissenters , by the various governments of Europe , only with reluctance , the use of bells in chapels as a summons to divine service is not ...
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... Scotland in 1691 , studied for the medical profession . In 1714 , he went to St. Petersburg , and soon after was appointed physician to an embassy from Russia to Persia . In 1719 , he was sent upon another to China , through Siberia ...
... Scotland in 1691 , studied for the medical profession . In 1714 , he went to St. Petersburg , and soon after was appointed physician to an embassy from Russia to Persia . In 1719 , he was sent upon another to China , through Siberia ...
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... Scotland and tion is the fact , that elephants , rhinoceroses , buffaloes , Ireland , the arrangement is different , the judges in lions , and tigers , which were hunted in 1529 , have these countries sitting on chairs placed at a long ...
... Scotland and tion is the fact , that elephants , rhinoceroses , buffaloes , Ireland , the arrangement is different , the judges in lions , and tigers , which were hunted in 1529 , have these countries sitting on chairs placed at a long ...
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... Scotland - the Lord Chancellor being empowered to make such rules and orders , and the judges of the Court of Session in Scotland such acts of Sederunt as may be necessary for regulating the procedure . By an apparent oversight , a ...
... Scotland - the Lord Chancellor being empowered to make such rules and orders , and the judges of the Court of Session in Scotland such acts of Sederunt as may be necessary for regulating the procedure . By an apparent oversight , a ...
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... Scotland ; and a learned writer on the law of that country complains of its introduction into a statute applicable to Scotland ( Hutchison's Justice of the Peace in Scotland , vol . ii . , p . 191 ) . See on the subject of this article ...
... Scotland ; and a learned writer on the law of that country complains of its introduction into a statute applicable to Scotland ( Hutchison's Justice of the Peace in Scotland , vol . ii . , p . 191 ) . See on the subject of this article ...
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Page 90 - 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 33 - 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 119 - 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 96 - ... 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 361 - Of these the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons are termed the Principal Trustees.
Page 89 - 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 344 - 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 345 - The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, by the Rev. THOMAS CHALMERS, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. II. The adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, by JOHN KIDD, MD, FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford.
Page 135 - I cannot conclude this book upon the creation without mentioning a poem which has lately appeared under that title.* The work was undertaken with so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse.
Page 96 - Nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any right of stoppage in transitu, or any right to claim freight against the original shipper or owner, or any liability of the consignee or endorsee by reason or in consequence of his being such consignee or endorsee, or of his receipt of the goods by reason or in consequence of such consignment or endorsement.