Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5W. and R. Chambers, 1868 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Britain in winter , particularly during severe frosts , but a few also breed in the north of Scotland , and even in the north of England . The Bean G. is easily domesticated , but generally keeps apart from the ordinary tame geese ...
... Britain in winter , particularly during severe frosts , but a few also breed in the north of Scotland , and even in the north of England . The Bean G. is easily domesticated , but generally keeps apart from the ordinary tame geese ...
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... Britain under its own name , is often fraudulently sold as at least 200 years ago , and may now be regarded as champagne . The use of unripe gooseberries for fully naturalised ; a great ornament of lakes and tarts increases the value of ...
... Britain under its own name , is often fraudulently sold as at least 200 years ago , and may now be regarded as champagne . The use of unripe gooseberries for fully naturalised ; a great ornament of lakes and tarts increases the value of ...
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... Britain and France . The ability he displayed in this defence , his courtesy to the enemy , and his humanity to the wounded and prisoners , have given him an exalted reputation . As a reward for his ser- vices in this unsuccessful but ...
... Britain and France . The ability he displayed in this defence , his courtesy to the enemy , and his humanity to the wounded and prisoners , have given him an exalted reputation . As a reward for his ser- vices in this unsuccessful but ...
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... Britain , see PUBLIC SCHOOLS , NATIONAL EDUCATION . GRAMME is the standard unit of French measures of weight , and is the weight of a cubic centimètre of distilled water at 0 ° Centigrade ( corresponding to 32 ° Fah . ) ; the other ...
... Britain , see PUBLIC SCHOOLS , NATIONAL EDUCATION . GRAMME is the standard unit of French measures of weight , and is the weight of a cubic centimètre of distilled water at 0 ° Centigrade ( corresponding to 32 ° Fah . ) ; the other ...
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... Britain , and small bracts called paleæ or glumella , the immediate different grasses are used in the same way in many covering of the parts of fructification . The glumes parts of the world . Some grasses , as the Moonja were called ...
... Britain , and small bracts called paleæ or glumella , the immediate different grasses are used in the same way in many covering of the parts of fructification . The glumes parts of the world . Some grasses , as the Moonja were called ...
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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 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 86 - Florence), and a protracted discussion took place, the chief points of which were the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
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 119 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Page 51 - Tenure by grand serjeanty is, where a man holds his lands or tenements of our sovereign lord the king, by such services as he ought to do in his proper person to the king, as to carry the banner of the king, or his lance, or to lead his army, or to be his marshal, or to carry his sword before him at his coronation, or to be his sewer at his coronation, or his carver, or his butler, or to be one of his chamberlains of the receipt of his exchequer, or to do other like services, &c.
Page 17 - We have not received," saith Irenaeus, " the knowledge of the way of our salvation by any others than those by whom the gospel has been brought to us. Which gospel they first preached, and afterwards, by the will of God, committed to writing, that it might be for time to come the foundation and pillar of our faith.
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 - But the happiness of our Constitution is, that it is not left to the Executive power to determine when the danger of the State is so [301] great, as to render this measure expedient.