The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Band 1Thomas Spencer Baynes R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... important victory over the Austrians on the 20th of April 1809. The town is the Abusina of the Romans , and ancient ruins exist in its neighbourhood . ABERAVON , a parliamentary and municipal borough of Wales , in the county of ...
... important victory over the Austrians on the 20th of April 1809. The town is the Abusina of the Romans , and ancient ruins exist in its neighbourhood . ABERAVON , a parliamentary and municipal borough of Wales , in the county of ...
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... important reforms he introduced in regard to the conduct of private business . In 1839 he resigned the office , and received the customary honour of a peerage , with the title of Lord Dunfermline . The evening of his life was passed in ...
... important reforms he introduced in regard to the conduct of private business . In 1839 he resigned the office , and received the customary honour of a peerage , with the title of Lord Dunfermline . The evening of his life was passed in ...
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... important services , was appointed to the command of the regiment of Scots Greys , ABERDARE , a town of Wales , in the county of intrusted with the governments of the Isle of Wight , Fort Glamorgan , on the right bank of the river Cynon ...
... important services , was appointed to the command of the regiment of Scots Greys , ABERDARE , a town of Wales , in the county of intrusted with the governments of the Isle of Wight , Fort Glamorgan , on the right bank of the river Cynon ...
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... important works , and best known by his Philosophy of Rhetoric ; Dr James Beattie ; Lord Byron ; Sir James Mackintosh ; Robert Hall ; Dr R. Hamilton , who wrote on the National Debt . Till 1800 the city stood on a few eminences , and ...
... important works , and best known by his Philosophy of Rhetoric ; Dr James Beattie ; Lord Byron ; Sir James Mackintosh ; Robert Hall ; Dr R. Hamilton , who wrote on the National Debt . Till 1800 the city stood on a few eminences , and ...
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... important that the con- nection of surgery with physiology had scarcely been recognised before the time he wrote . The leading prin- ciples on which he insists in " My Book " are chiefly these two : -1st , That topical diseases are ...
... important that the con- nection of surgery with physiology had scarcely been recognised before the time he wrote . The leading prin- ciples on which he insists in " My Book " are chiefly these two : -1st , That topical diseases are ...
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Seite 134 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept : and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Seite 292 - Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die : and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Seite 33 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Seite 53 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Seite 141 - It looks likely to me; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people, according to the exactest computations, will, in another century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have, I may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain a mastery of the seas ; and then the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us.
Seite 172 - Guinea pepper, or opium, or any extract or preparation of molasses, or any article or preparation to be used in worts or beer for, or as a substitute for, malt or hops...
Seite 141 - ... the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us.
Seite 298 - They have neither good bread, cheese, nor drink. They cannot make them, nor will they learn. Their butter is very indifferent, and one would wonder how they could contrive to make it so bad.
Seite 203 - When a body floats freely in a fluid the weight of the body is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Seite 134 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.