Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2W. and R. Chambers, 1868 - 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 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- friends of his youth , and his teachers , he hesitates ing the circumstances of his life . A legendary ... known in Europe ; that into German , by Peiper ( Leip . 1834 ) ; and the Greek translation by Galanos ( Athens ...
... known regard- friends of his youth , and his teachers , he hesitates ing the circumstances of his life . A legendary ... known in Europe ; that into German , by Peiper ( Leip . 1834 ) ; and the Greek translation by Galanos ( Athens ...
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... known to the churches , and that the doctrinal significance of these had begun to be realised . They do not , however , demonstrate the existence of written gospels , but they prove that Christianity rests on a historic basis . Their ...
... known to the churches , and that the doctrinal significance of these had begun to be realised . They do not , however , demonstrate the existence of written gospels , but they prove that Christianity rests on a historic basis . Their ...
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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 362 - Of these the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons are termed the Principal Trustees.
Page 13 - He was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
Page 31 - That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent, by act of parliament...
Page 239 - ... did abide so many blows in them, that his legs were crushed and beaten together as small as might be, and the bones and flesh so bruised, that the blood and marrow spouted forth in great abundance, whereby they were made unserviceable for ever.
Page 355 - ... the sole supreme government, command and disposition of the militia and of all forces by sea and land and of all forts and places of strength is and by the laws of England ever was the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England, and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same...
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 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 328 - God's law and man's ; as, for example, in the case of murder, the Brehon — that is, their judge — will compound between the murderer and the friends of the party murdered, which prosecute the action, that the malefactor shall give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that is slain, a recompense, which they call an eriach. By which vile law of theirs many murders amongst them are made up and smothered.
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.