Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... leaves the waters to visit moors , meadows , and cultivated fields , generally preferring an open country , or taking its place , as remote as possible from danger , in the middle of a field . These excursions are often made by night ...
... leaves the waters to visit moors , meadows , and cultivated fields , generally preferring an open country , or taking its place , as remote as possible from danger , in the middle of a field . These excursions are often made by night ...
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... leaves , its flowers with four stamens- the other species having five - and the great length of the filaments . - R . saxatile , a native of Siberia , and other species , forming a sub - genus called Botry- carpum , have a character ...
... leaves , its flowers with four stamens- the other species having five - and the great length of the filaments . - R . saxatile , a native of Siberia , and other species , forming a sub - genus called Botry- carpum , have a character ...
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... leaves ; the larva is green and shagreened ' with to the young fry . minute black tubercles . Many remedies have been proposed and tried to prevent the ravages of these larvae , of which , perhaps , the best are picking off the leaves ...
... leaves ; the larva is green and shagreened ' with to the young fry . minute black tubercles . Many remedies have been proposed and tried to prevent the ravages of these larvae , of which , perhaps , the best are picking off the leaves ...
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... leaves , and beautiful , white , sweet - scented flowers , more than an inch in diameter . The bark is much used for tanning . In England , it is cultivated with some difficulty , and generally appears as a mere bush . GORE , in ...
... leaves , and beautiful , white , sweet - scented flowers , more than an inch in diameter . The bark is much used for tanning . In England , it is cultivated with some difficulty , and generally appears as a mere bush . GORE , in ...
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... leaves , as the fleshy parts of the leaves of the pine - apple ; and employs its great strength of jaws and teeth in tearing vegetable substances and cracking nuts which would require a heavy blow of a hammer . It is not gregarious in ...
... leaves , as the fleshy parts of the leaves of the pine - apple ; and employs its great strength of jaws and teeth in tearing vegetable substances and cracking nuts which would require a heavy blow of a hammer . It is not gregarious in ...
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Page 125 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 59 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 176 - To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...
Page 176 - ... confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown, or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.
Page 106 - December one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, no irregular marriage contracted in Scotland by declaration, acknowledgment, or ceremony shall be valid, unless one of the parties had at the date thereof his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding such marriage ; any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 343 - Heron (Árdea cinérea). from the point of the bill to the end of the tail.
Page 73 - Ireland; and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the said united kingdom and its dependencies ; and also the ensigns, armorial flags, and banners thereof, shall be such as his Majesty, by his royal proclamation under the great seal of the united kingdom, shall be pleased to appoint.
Page 176 - France it is daily practised by the crown) (k), there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities. Some have thought that unjust attacks, even upon life or property, at the arbitrary will of the magistrate, *are less dangerous to the commonwealth than such as are made upon the personal liberty of the subject. To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism...
Page 176 - ... not left to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great as to render this measure expedient ; for it is the parliament only, or legislative power, that whenever it sees proper can authorize the crown, by suspending the habeas corpus act for a short and limited time, to imprison suspected persons without giving any reason for so doing...