Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, כרך 6W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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עמוד 21
... feet high when sitting ; nearly 5 feet long ; and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing . It is very bold and rapacious , swooping down on hares , lambs , young goats , chamois , & c . , and sometimes carrying off children . It lives on ...
... feet high when sitting ; nearly 5 feet long ; and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing . It is very bold and rapacious , swooping down on hares , lambs , young goats , chamois , & c . , and sometimes carrying off children . It lives on ...
עמוד 22
... feet ) and Spartleton ( 1534 feet ) . LAMORICIÈRE , CHRISTOPHE LEON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria ...
... feet ) and Spartleton ( 1534 feet ) . LAMORICIÈRE , CHRISTOPHE LEON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria ...
עמוד 24
... feet ; Tintock is 2335 feet high . In the upper ward is the village of Leadhills , which is 1323 feet above sea - level , being the highest inhabited place in Scotland . This county possesses great mineral wealth . There are upwards of ...
... feet ; Tintock is 2335 feet high . In the upper ward is the village of Leadhills , which is 1323 feet above sea - level , being the highest inhabited place in Scotland . This county possesses great mineral wealth . There are upwards of ...
עמוד 25
... feet long , the nave 70 feet broad . In the township of Whalley , in the east of L. , is a very old church , and in the churchyard are three crosses , apparently of Saxon origin . In the vicinity are the ruins of an abbey of about the ...
... feet long , the nave 70 feet broad . In the township of Whalley , in the east of L. , is a very old church , and in the churchyard are three crosses , apparently of Saxon origin . In the vicinity are the ruins of an abbey of about the ...
עמוד 31
... feet wide , and 150 feet deep . Of the same kind was the slip of the Rossberg , in Switzerland ( see GOLDAU ) . Landslips of a different kind have been produced in peat mosses , which becoming by heavy rains thoroughly saturated with ...
... feet wide , and 150 feet deep . Of the same kind was the slip of the Rossberg , in Switzerland ( see GOLDAU ) . Landslips of a different kind have been produced in peat mosses , which becoming by heavy rains thoroughly saturated with ...
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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.