The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... term , as it occurs in the alphabetical order , to the general treatise . The plan of the Penny Cyclopædia , as it is specially intended as a book of reference , is not to attempt to form systems of knowledge , but to give pretty fully ...
... term , as it occurs in the alphabetical order , to the general treatise . The plan of the Penny Cyclopædia , as it is specially intended as a book of reference , is not to attempt to form systems of knowledge , but to give pretty fully ...
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... term Beast , which we often use in oppo- sition to Birds and Fishes , is still more vague and indeter- minate . The word Mammal , however , so happily imagined by the great Swedish naturalist , is liable to none of these objections ...
... term Beast , which we often use in oppo- sition to Birds and Fishes , is still more vague and indeter- minate . The word Mammal , however , so happily imagined by the great Swedish naturalist , is liable to none of these objections ...
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... term ABACUS , and is principally applied , when used at all , which is not often , to the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement . A'BACUS , in architecture , is the level tablet , whether square or oblong , which is almost always ...
... term ABACUS , and is principally applied , when used at all , which is not often , to the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement . A'BACUS , in architecture , is the level tablet , whether square or oblong , which is almost always ...
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... term , it will be well to observe , for the infor- above , in having only five beads on each wire , one of which mation of those who may not be acquainted with the history is distinguished from the rest either in colour or size , and of ...
... term , it will be well to observe , for the infor- above , in having only five beads on each wire , one of which mation of those who may not be acquainted with the history is distinguished from the rest either in colour or size , and of ...
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... term abate- ment is used in a figurative sense . Where , upon the death of a person possessed of freehold lands , another who has no title enters upon those lands to the prejudice of the party entitled as heir or devisee , he is said to ...
... term abate- ment is used in a figurative sense . Where , upon the death of a person possessed of freehold lands , another who has no title enters upon those lands to the prejudice of the party entitled as heir or devisee , he is said to ...
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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.