The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... French . It also stands for the alto parts . The a , formerly often prefixed to our participles in ing , both in the active and passive sense , as the house is a - pre- AA , a small river which flows into the Ems , on the east paring ...
... French . It also stands for the alto parts . The a , formerly often prefixed to our participles in ing , both in the active and passive sense , as the house is a - pre- AA , a small river which flows into the Ems , on the east paring ...
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... French physician , Gabriel Naudé , pub- lished in the early part of the seventeenth century , entitled A Vindication of the Great Men who have been accused of Magic . Abano , however , although no student of magic , shared the universal ...
... French physician , Gabriel Naudé , pub- lished in the early part of the seventeenth century , entitled A Vindication of the Great Men who have been accused of Magic . Abano , however , although no student of magic , shared the universal ...
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... French term for Abbot , which will be ex- plained in its place . In France , before the Revolution , Abbé was the denomination of a very numerous body of persons , who had little or no connexion with the church , except the apparent one ...
... French term for Abbot , which will be ex- plained in its place . In France , before the Revolution , Abbé was the denomination of a very numerous body of persons , who had little or no connexion with the church , except the apparent one ...
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... French mo- narchy , the term abbey was applied to a duchy or earldom , as well as to a religious establishment ; and the dukes and counts called themselves abbots , although remaining , in all respects , secular persons . They took this ...
... French mo- narchy , the term abbey was applied to a duchy or earldom , as well as to a religious establishment ; and the dukes and counts called themselves abbots , although remaining , in all respects , secular persons . They took this ...
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... French Revolution , the powers of the heads of monasteries , as well as those of other ecclesiastical persons , had been reduced to compara- tively narrow limits ; and the sovereignty both of abbots and bishops had been subjected in all ...
... French Revolution , the powers of the heads of monasteries , as well as those of other ecclesiastical persons , had been reduced to compara- tively narrow limits ; and the sovereignty both of abbots and bishops had been subjected in all ...
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Seite 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Seite 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
Seite 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Seite 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Seite 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Seite 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
Seite 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
Seite 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
Seite 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.