The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Volumen8Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... Britain , and ranges throughout central and southern Europe , and in Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas . Its stem attains a height of from 3 to 5 feet ; the leaves are serrate - dentate , the lower ones stalked , the rest embracing ...
... Britain , and ranges throughout central and southern Europe , and in Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas . Its stem attains a height of from 3 to 5 feet ; the leaves are serrate - dentate , the lower ones stalked , the rest embracing ...
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... Britain . Except a remarkable well cut in the solid rock , and of older date at least than the mounds sketched by Roy , few vestiges of the former importance of Burghead now remain . ELGIN , a royal and parliamentary burgh of Scotland ...
... Britain . Except a remarkable well cut in the solid rock , and of older date at least than the mounds sketched by Roy , few vestiges of the former importance of Burghead now remain . ELGIN , a royal and parliamentary burgh of Scotland ...
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... Britain in towards its author's recall , but it had the one good result the East , and the necessity for strengthening it by military of calling forth Lord Macaulay's most brilliant philippic reforms . He repeated what the greater ...
... Britain in towards its author's recall , but it had the one good result the East , and the necessity for strengthening it by military of calling forth Lord Macaulay's most brilliant philippic reforms . He repeated what the greater ...
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... Britain , where it usually attains a height of about 50 feet , but among tall - growing trees may reach 120 feet . It has drooping branches , and a smoother and thinner bark , larger and more tapering leaves , aud a far less deeply ...
... Britain , where it usually attains a height of about 50 feet , but among tall - growing trees may reach 120 feet . It has drooping branches , and a smoother and thinner bark , larger and more tapering leaves , aud a far less deeply ...
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... Britain , where it was known to the natives as the Mooruk , and in Not much seems to be known of the habits of any of the Cassowaries in a state of nature . Though the old species occurs rather plentifully over the whole of the interior ...
... Britain , where it was known to the natives as the Mooruk , and in Not much seems to be known of the habits of any of the Cassowaries in a state of nature . Though the old species occurs rather plentifully over the whole of the interior ...
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Página 135 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Página 144 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Página 143 - And in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Página 144 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Página 208 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 144 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...
Página 212 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.
Página 160 - Employer, or any part thereof, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his Master or Employer, although such chattel, money, or security, was not received into the possession of such Master or Employer, otherwise than by the actual possession of his Clerk, Servant, or other person so employed...
Página 208 - From hence it is evident that the Heat produced could not possibly have been furnished at the expense of the latent Heat of the metallic chips.
Página 136 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.