XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, Volumen2Gebbie & Company, 1901 |
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... Britain and France in 1802. The preponderance thereafter gained by Russia was one of the causes of the Crimean war , in which she was com- pelled to cede her right to keep armed vessels in it , the sea being declared neutral by the ...
... Britain and France in 1802. The preponderance thereafter gained by Russia was one of the causes of the Crimean war , in which she was com- pelled to cede her right to keep armed vessels in it , the sea being declared neutral by the ...
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... Britain , the United States , & c . , growing in ditches and pools . They are named from having little bladders or vesicles , that fill with air at the time of flowering and raise the plant in the water , so that the blossoms 2.
... Britain , the United States , & c . , growing in ditches and pools . They are named from having little bladders or vesicles , that fill with air at the time of flowering and raise the plant in the water , so that the blossoms 2.
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... Britain , to the higher education of the blind by the forma- tion of the British and Foreign Blind Asso- ciation , the establishment of a college for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen at Worcester , and the Royal Normal College and Aca- BLIND ...
... Britain , to the higher education of the blind by the forma- tion of the British and Foreign Blind Asso- ciation , the establishment of a college for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen at Worcester , and the Royal Normal College and Aca- BLIND ...
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... Boadice'a , Queen of the Iceni , in Britain , during the reign of Nero . Having been treated in the most ignominious manner by the Romans , she headed a general insurrec- BOAR tion of the Britons , attacked the Roman settlements 19.
... Boadice'a , Queen of the Iceni , in Britain , during the reign of Nero . Having been treated in the most ignominious manner by the Romans , she headed a general insurrec- BOAR tion of the Britons , attacked the Roman settlements 19.
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... Britain . The chief of the board is called First Lord . See Admiralty . Board of Trade , a department of the British government , having wide and im- portant functions respecting the trade and navigation of the kingdom . It is a per ...
... Britain . The chief of the board is called First Lord . See Admiralty . Board of Trade , a department of the British government , having wide and im- portant functions respecting the trade and navigation of the kingdom . It is a per ...
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Página 480 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Página 159 - It is difficult to comprehend how men not assisted by revelation could have soared so high and approached so near to the truth. * * * Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal...
Página 480 - If two ships under steam are meeting end on or nearly end on so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Página 119 - that the crown is, by common law and constitutional custom, hereditary; and this in a manner peculiar to itself; but that the right of inheritance may, from time to time, be changed or limited by act of parliament; under which limitations the crown still continues hereditary (2).
Página 119 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página 137 - Dating his first call from 1790, he announced himself, in 1793, the apostle of a new religion, "the nephew of the Almighty, and prince of the Hebrews, appointed to lead them to the land of Canaan.
Página 107 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as...
Página 70 - Stainville, in the campaign of 1761, in Germany: After the peace, he entered the navy, and became one of the greatest naval officers in France. He persuaded the inhabitants of St. Malo to...
Página 358 - Hampden began his career of resistance to the king's arbitrary measures by refusing to pay ship-money, the right to levy which, without authority of parliament, he was determined to bring before a court of law. His cause was argued for twelve days in the Court of Exchequer ; and although he lost it by the decision of eight of the judges out of twelve, the discussion of the question produced a very powerful impression on the public mind. It was in Scotland, however, that formal warlike opposition...
Página 120 - Another capacity, in which the king is considered in domestic affairs, is as the fountain of justice and general conservator of the peace of the kingdom. By the fountain of justice, the law does not mean the author or original, but only the distributor. Justice is not derived from the king, as from his free gift; but he is the steward of the public, to dispense it to whom it is due.