Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... inches high , 5 inches broad , and 4 inches deep , and is kept in a case or shrine of brass , enriched with gems and with gold and silver filigree , and made ( as an inscription in Irish shews ) between the years 1091 and 1105. The bell ...
... inches high , 5 inches broad , and 4 inches deep , and is kept in a case or shrine of brass , enriched with gems and with gold and silver filigree , and made ( as an inscription in Irish shews ) between the years 1091 and 1105. The bell ...
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... inches and about 26 inches . Hence all its subordinate streams become , in the dry season , mere expanses of sand , which , excepting when bound together by the growth of the nuth - grass , is apt to encroach from year to year , like a ...
... inches and about 26 inches . Hence all its subordinate streams become , in the dry season , mere expanses of sand , which , excepting when bound together by the growth of the nuth - grass , is apt to encroach from year to year , like a ...
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... inches . He generally takes his place on the top of a lofty tree , and his tolling can be heard to the distance of three miles . It resounds through the forest , not only at morning and evening , but also at mid - day , when the heat of ...
... inches . He generally takes his place on the top of a lofty tree , and his tolling can be heard to the distance of three miles . It resounds through the forest , not only at morning and evening , but also at mid - day , when the heat of ...
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... inches deep , and 20 yards wide at its mouth . The pastures , as may be and goats , however , are numerous . supposed , are poor , so that there are few cattle : sheep The dromedary is the ordinary beast of burden ; and it is only in ...
... inches deep , and 20 yards wide at its mouth . The pastures , as may be and goats , however , are numerous . supposed , are poor , so that there are few cattle : sheep The dromedary is the ordinary beast of burden ; and it is only in ...
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... inch a watered by many less considerable rivers , chiefly day on the depth of the adjacent bay - impairs the northerly ... inches to 85 , diminishing with each increase of depth and width . A twofold gradually towards the interior . At ...
... inch a watered by many less considerable rivers , chiefly day on the depth of the adjacent bay - impairs the northerly ... inches to 85 , diminishing with each increase of depth and width . A twofold gradually towards the interior . At ...
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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.