The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 2Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1898 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... term polar lights might be more appropriate than northern lights to designate the aurora . appearance of the A. B. has been described by a great variety of observers , both in northern and central Europe , all of whom give substantially ...
... term polar lights might be more appropriate than northern lights to designate the aurora . appearance of the A. B. has been described by a great variety of observers , both in northern and central Europe , all of whom give substantially ...
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... term was applied to extracts from the decisions of the " Novella " by which previous decisions were set aside or modified . AUTO , entering into many compound scientific terms of Greek extraction , is the Greek pronoun self . In some ...
... term was applied to extracts from the decisions of the " Novella " by which previous decisions were set aside or modified . AUTO , entering into many compound scientific terms of Greek extraction , is the Greek pronoun self . In some ...
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... term applied to what is written with the person's own hand , as distinguished from an apograph , or copy , and usually applied to a signature only , though often , to designate a whole manuscript . The collecting of auto- graphs was ...
... term applied to what is written with the person's own hand , as distinguished from an apograph , or copy , and usually applied to a signature only , though often , to designate a whole manuscript . The collecting of auto- graphs was ...
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... term applied to a speculative theory that ascribes to matter a self - moving power , and sometimes to a specu- lative theory that denies in human actions the liberty of choice . These uses of the term are often confused and ill ...
... term applied to a speculative theory that ascribes to matter a self - moving power , and sometimes to a specu- lative theory that denies in human actions the liberty of choice . These uses of the term are often confused and ill ...
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... term is much employed in diplomatic language , and in its later signification means either the absolute freedom of a state from interference or dictation by foreign powers , Switzerland , for example , or the permission to administer ...
... term is much employed in diplomatic language , and in its later signification means either the absolute freedom of a state from interference or dictation by foreign powers , Switzerland , for example , or the permission to administer ...
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Page 312 - The general law of the land is in favor of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial, still, as it is the law of the land, the court must pronounce judgment for it.
Page 414 - In 1836 he was elected professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
Page 26 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
Page 238 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 413 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras ; suggesting a System by which a School or Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Page 204 - Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the (Red) sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 412 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Page 426 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 361 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 199 - They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated it would hang down motionless, and this was often proved to be so.