Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, כרך 6W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 2
... natural advantages , to be a ground , which formed another story . The upper nucleus of civilisation for the whole of the surround - chambers were decorated with reliefs ; the lower ing islands . Already it has been erected into a see ...
... natural advantages , to be a ground , which formed another story . The upper nucleus of civilisation for the whole of the surround - chambers were decorated with reliefs ; the lower ing islands . Already it has been erected into a see ...
עמוד 6
... natural history , in which he was greatly encouraged by the friendship of Buffon , he was appointed curator of the Cabinet of Natural History in the Royal Gardens at Paris . This office he held till the Revolution , when he became ...
... natural history , in which he was greatly encouraged by the friendship of Buffon , he was appointed curator of the Cabinet of Natural History in the Royal Gardens at Paris . This office he held till the Revolution , when he became ...
עמוד 11
... natural order Rosacea , sub - order Sanguisorber ; having small and numerous flowers , an 8 - cleft calyx , no corolla , and the fruit surrounded by the persistent calyx . The name L. M. signifying derived from the form of the leaves ...
... natural order Rosacea , sub - order Sanguisorber ; having small and numerous flowers , an 8 - cleft calyx , no corolla , and the fruit surrounded by the persistent calyx . The name L. M. signifying derived from the form of the leaves ...
עמוד 27
... ( natural order Anonacea ) . Another species , G. laurifolia , yields the wood called White Lancewood . The latter is not much used . L. is of great value to coach - builders , by whom it is used for shafts and carriage - poles , for ...
... ( natural order Anonacea ) . Another species , G. laurifolia , yields the wood called White Lancewood . The latter is not much used . L. is of great value to coach - builders , by whom it is used for shafts and carriage - poles , for ...
עמוד 41
... Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College , London ; and in 1830 , he projected a sort of encyclopædia , consisting of original treatises on history , science , economics , & c . , by the most eminent authors ; and 134 ...
... Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College , London ; and in 1830 , he projected a sort of encyclopædia , consisting of original treatises on history , science , economics , & c . , by the most eminent authors ; and 134 ...
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עמוד 70 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read 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 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 47 - 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 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 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.
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 118 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
עמוד 256 - The Great Charter of the liberties of England," it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
עמוד 82 - Scotland; which, he said, were so violent, that he could not concur in the planting the Christian religion itself, in such a manner, much less a form of government.
עמוד 171 - Logic, then, is the science of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence : both the process itself of advancing from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations in so far as auxiliary to this.