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... Crown 8vo . 128 . AMBER - WITCH ( THE ) . A most interesting Trial for Witch- craft . Translated by LADY DUFF GORDON . Post 8vo . 28 . AMERICA . [ See NADAILLAC . ] APOCRYPHA : With a Commentary Explanatory and Critical , Edited by the ...
... Crown 8vo . 128 . AMBER - WITCH ( THE ) . A most interesting Trial for Witch- craft . Translated by LADY DUFF GORDON . Post 8vo . 28 . AMERICA . [ See NADAILLAC . ] APOCRYPHA : With a Commentary Explanatory and Critical , Edited by the ...
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... 8vo . 18s . BORROW ( GEORGE ) . The Bible in Spain ; Post 8vo . 5s . Gypsies of Spain ; their Manners and Customs ... Crown 8vo . 38. 6d . BREWER ( REV . J. S. ) . The Reign of Henry VIII .; from his Accession till the Death of Wolsey ...
... 8vo . 18s . BORROW ( GEORGE ) . The Bible in Spain ; Post 8vo . 5s . Gypsies of Spain ; their Manners and Customs ... Crown 8vo . 38. 6d . BREWER ( REV . J. S. ) . The Reign of Henry VIII .; from his Accession till the Death of Wolsey ...
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... Crown 8vo . 15s . BUTTMANN'S LEXILOGUS ; a Critical Examination of the Meaning of numerous Greek Words , chiefly in Homer and Hesiod . By Rev. J. R. FISHLAKE . 8vo . 128 . BUXTON ( CHARLES ) . Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton , Bart ...
... Crown 8vo . 15s . BUTTMANN'S LEXILOGUS ; a Critical Examination of the Meaning of numerous Greek Words , chiefly in Homer and Hesiod . By Rev. J. R. FISHLAKE . 8vo . 128 . BUXTON ( CHARLES ) . Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton , Bart ...
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... 8vo . 39. 6d . The Agamemnon : Translated from Eschylus . 8m . 8vo . 63 . CARNOTA ( CONDE DA ) . The Life and ... Crown ; their Administra- tion and Government . 2 Vols . 8vo . 21s . each . Administration of Justice under Military and ...
... 8vo . 39. 6d . The Agamemnon : Translated from Eschylus . 8m . 8vo . 63 . CARNOTA ( CONDE DA ) . The Life and ... Crown ; their Administra- tion and Government . 2 Vols . 8vo . 21s . each . Administration of Justice under Military and ...
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... Crown 8vo . 98 . ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION ; or , the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . Woodcuts . Crown 8vo . 78. 6d . VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION . Woodcuts . 2 ...
... Crown 8vo . 98 . ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION ; or , the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . Woodcuts . Crown 8vo . 78. 6d . VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION . Woodcuts . 2 ...
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Page 121 - House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Page 246 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 121 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Page 121 - Senators, and shall be published, for three months previous to the time of making such choice, and if in the Legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to...
Page 215 - This process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of president, will seldom fall to the lot of any man, who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
Page 178 - If a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it, it is superfluous...
Page 172 - ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 227 - Article provides (in s. 3) that "the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures thereof, for six years.
Page 46 - ... floods, hurricanes, and the ravages of war. An enemy lays waste a country by fire and sword, and destroys or carries away nearly all the movable wealth existing in it ; all the inhabitants are ruined, and yet, in a few years after, everything is much as it was before.
Page 173 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.