Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, כרך 6W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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עמוד 14
... miles to the east , L. became much neglected . Since 1849 , the epoch of the 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 ...
... miles to the east , L. became much neglected . Since 1849 , the epoch of the 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 ...
עמוד 25
... miles , and greatest breadth 16 miles , is separated from the main portion by Morecambe Bay . The larger division is inter- sected in the north and east by branches of the hill system which runs southward through the counties of York ...
... miles , and greatest breadth 16 miles , is separated from the main portion by Morecambe Bay . The larger division is inter- sected in the north and east by branches of the hill system which runs southward through the counties of York ...
עמוד 59
... miles from LAWRENCE , a city of Massachusetts , U.S. , on its mouth , and the same distance north of Boston . It is a handsome manufacturing city , with a park , and fountains supplied from a reservoir 140 feet high ; has 14 churches ...
... miles from LAWRENCE , a city of Massachusetts , U.S. , on its mouth , and the same distance north of Boston . It is a handsome manufacturing city , with a park , and fountains supplied from a reservoir 140 feet high ; has 14 churches ...
עמוד 65
... miles of that time , or 2 modern English miles . At the present day , the league is a nautical measure , and signifies the 20th part of a degree - i . e . , 3 geographical miles , or 3456 statute miles . The French and other nations had ...
... miles of that time , or 2 modern English miles . At the present day , the league is a nautical measure , and signifies the 20th part of a degree - i . e . , 3 geographical miles , or 3456 statute miles . The French and other nations had ...
עמוד 109
... miles ment , which , to the surprise of the nation , he north of Portland . The river has here a fall of 50 exchanged , in 1861 , on the death of Lord Herbert , feet in 200 , and the water - power is distributed by for the office of ...
... miles ment , which , to the surprise of the nation , he north of Portland . The river has here a fall of 50 exchanged , in 1861 , on the death of Lord Herbert , feet in 200 , and the water - power is distributed by for the office of ...
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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.