The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volumen8Werner Company, 1907 |
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Página 122
... Normans , Saxons , and Flemings - who got large grants of land from David I. and his immediate suc- cessors . It was in those days that the family of De Moravia became the owners of the fairest part of the province . At the same period ...
... Normans , Saxons , and Flemings - who got large grants of land from David I. and his immediate suc- cessors . It was in those days that the family of De Moravia became the owners of the fairest part of the province . At the same period ...
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... Norman , but its Norman apse was destroyed , and the church extended eastward by six more arches , by Bishop Northwold , about the middle of the 13th century . The addition is Early English , and its carving is very elaborate and ...
... Norman , but its Norman apse was destroyed , and the church extended eastward by six more arches , by Bishop Northwold , about the middle of the 13th century . The addition is Early English , and its carving is very elaborate and ...
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... Normans into England , or to maintain that it was a force of hunger only which impelled the Northern barba- rians to attack the Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the ...
... Normans into England , or to maintain that it was a force of hunger only which impelled the Northern barba- rians to attack the Roman Empire . In the invasion of Turkey in 1877 the Russian soldiers are said to have been surprised at the ...
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... Norman Conquest , vol . i . , Appendix , who however attaches too much importance to this English use ) . In comparatively modern times , the title of emperor has been taken by the monarchs of Russia ( Vassili , about 1520 , his ...
... Norman Conquest , vol . i . , Appendix , who however attaches too much importance to this English use ) . In comparatively modern times , the title of emperor has been taken by the monarchs of Russia ( Vassili , about 1520 , his ...
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... Norman conquest of England , the folkland , the ager publicus , passed into terra regis , the land of the king . As the community could at all times grant away its own land , the doctrine gradually grew that the king , the head of the ...
... Norman conquest of England , the folkland , the ager publicus , passed into terra regis , the land of the king . As the community could at all times grant away its own land , the doctrine gradually grew that the king , the head of the ...
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Página 130 - ... 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 144 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 123 - 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 185 - 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 143 - ... chattel, money( or valuable security which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on the account of his master...
Página 122 - And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Página 231 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Página 231 - ... It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 123 - 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.
Página 188 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.