Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, כרך 6W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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עמוד 1
... British Isles , falls 30 ° below the freezing - point . L. is a dependency of the United Kingdom , but it has never had a separate government of its own , being considered sometimes as an appendage of Canada , and some- times as an ...
... British Isles , falls 30 ° below the freezing - point . L. is a dependency of the United Kingdom , but it has never had a separate government of its own , being considered sometimes as an appendage of Canada , and some- times as an ...
עמוד 2
... British capitalists ; and having become , in 1846 , a British possession , it bids fair , as well from its political connection as from its natural advantages , to be a nucleus of civilisation for the whole of the surround- ing islands ...
... British capitalists ; and having become , in 1846 , a British possession , it bids fair , as well from its political connection as from its natural advantages , to be a nucleus of civilisation for the whole of the surround- ing islands ...
עמוד 11
... British plant of in Scotland , and has digitate serrated leaves , white is the FIELD L. M. , or PARSLEY PIERT ( 4. - or very humble growth and unpretending appearance Aphanes arvensis ) , found in pastures , an astringent and diuretic ...
... British plant of in Scotland , and has digitate serrated leaves , white is the FIELD L. M. , or PARSLEY PIERT ( 4. - or very humble growth and unpretending appearance Aphanes arvensis ) , found in pastures , an astringent and diuretic ...
עמוד 14
... British conquest of the Punjab , L. has advanced in com- merce and wealth . More especially , however , has the change of masters been beneficial to educa- tion . A seminary not only for imparting Hindu and Mohammedan literature , but ...
... British conquest of the Punjab , L. has advanced in com- merce and wealth . More especially , however , has the change of masters been beneficial to educa- tion . A seminary not only for imparting Hindu and Mohammedan literature , but ...
עמוד 26
... British service . When the great difficulty of rifling heavy ordnance to an extent to give a sufficient rotary motion to the projectile became apparent , Mr Lan- caster devised a plan by which grooves might be dispensed with altogether ...
... British service . When the great difficulty of rifling heavy ordnance to an extent to give a sufficient rotary motion to the projectile became apparent , Mr Lan- caster devised a plan by which grooves might be dispensed with altogether ...
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עמוד 54 - The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
עמוד 214 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
עמוד 49 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
עמוד 118 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
עמוד 70 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
עמוד 190 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
עמוד 191 - Sacrament, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.
עמוד 190 - The whole controversy relates to the motif in which the body and blood of Christ are present in the Lord's Supper ; for it was agreed on all hands that they are present in some way.
עמוד 91 - The discoveries which made Galileo, and Kepler, and Maestlin, and Maurolycus, and Castelli, and other names illustrious, the system of Copernicus, the very theories of recent geologers, are anticipated by Da Vinci, within the compass of a few pages, not perhaps in the most precise language, or on the most conclusive reasoning, but so as to strike us with something like the awe of preternatural knowledge.
עמוד 165 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.