Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... length is fixed upon , it does not sensibly restrain trade , inasmuch limits , and trade as much as he pleases . Hence , as the person covenanting can go beyond those such limitations are a fair matter of bargain , and upheld as valid ...
... length is fixed upon , it does not sensibly restrain trade , inasmuch limits , and trade as much as he pleases . Hence , as the person covenanting can go beyond those such limitations are a fair matter of bargain , and upheld as valid ...
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... length , with sixteen vertebræ , a character which widely distinguishes them from swans . In general , geese spend more of their time on land than any other of the Ana- tida , feeding on grass and other herbage , berries , seeds , and ...
... length , with sixteen vertebræ , a character which widely distinguishes them from swans . In general , geese spend more of their time on land than any other of the Ana- tida , feeding on grass and other herbage , berries , seeds , and ...
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... length . The bill , the by means of boiling water or otherwise , to expel as feet , the head , great part of the neck , the quill- much air as possible before they are corked and feathers , the rump , and the tail are black ; there is ...
... length . The bill , the by means of boiling water or otherwise , to expel as feet , the head , great part of the neck , the quill- much air as possible before they are corked and feathers , the rump , and the tail are black ; there is ...
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... length , the head small , and terminating in a rather sharp short Goramy ( Osphromenus olfax ) . snout , the mouth small , the tail rounded , the dorsal and anal fins having numerous rather short spines , the first ray of the ventral ...
... length , the head small , and terminating in a rather sharp short Goramy ( Osphromenus olfax ) . snout , the mouth small , the tail rounded , the dorsal and anal fins having numerous rather short spines , the first ray of the ventral ...
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... length from north - west to south - east , is 15 miles in average breadth , and is situated in a mountainous district at an elevation of 5300 feet above sea- level . The principal facts known about this lake are , that it is very deep ...
... length from north - west to south - east , is 15 miles in average breadth , and is situated in a mountainous district at an elevation of 5300 feet above sea- level . The principal facts known about this lake are , that it is very deep ...
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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...