Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volym 11Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... causes of natural things ge- nerally lie very deep ; observation and experiment , the proper means of arriving at ... cause . Philosophers are divided as to the use of such fictions or hypotheses , which are much less current now than ...
... causes of natural things ge- nerally lie very deep ; observation and experiment , the proper means of arriving at ... cause . Philosophers are divided as to the use of such fictions or hypotheses , which are much less current now than ...
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... cause . It was in a state of absolute famine at the end of 1792 , when visited by the embassy to China , and the waters of the rivers were almost dried up . The surface of the earth was devoid of herbage , the cattle had nearly all ...
... cause . It was in a state of absolute famine at the end of 1792 , when visited by the embassy to China , and the waters of the rivers were almost dried up . The surface of the earth was devoid of herbage , the cattle had nearly all ...
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... cause so effectually , that the deputies were not only cast , but put to death ; and this unjust sentence gave the ... causes of this quarrel are un- known . The event , however , was , that Simon finding he could not get the better of ...
... cause so effectually , that the deputies were not only cast , but put to death ; and this unjust sentence gave the ... causes of this quarrel are un- known . The event , however , was , that Simon finding he could not get the better of ...
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... caused him soon after to be drowned in a bath . The next victim was his beloved queen Mariamne herself . Herod had ... causing the assassins to be put to a most excruciating death , the people were so much exasperated against the ...
... caused him soon after to be drowned in a bath . The next victim was his beloved queen Mariamne herself . Herod had ... causing the assassins to be put to a most excruciating death , the people were so much exasperated against the ...
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... Cause of which was ended only by the destruction of Jerusalem , the last The immediate cause was the decision of a contest war with with the Syrians concerning the city of Cæsarea . The mans . Jews maintained that this city belonged to ...
... Cause of which was ended only by the destruction of Jerusalem , the last The immediate cause was the decision of a contest war with with the Syrians concerning the city of Cæsarea . The mans . Jews maintained that this city belonged to ...
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Sida 14 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Sida 240 - ... and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Sida 45 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Sida 335 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Sida 276 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Sida 131 - Jesuits had obtained the chief direction of the education of youth in every catholic country in Europe. They had become the confessors of almost all its monarchs, a function of no small importance in any reign, but under a weak prince superior even to that of minister.
Sida 115 - ... says the humanity of the English law, had the prisoner been of sound memory, he might have alleged something in stay of judgment or execution.
Sida 308 - ... no man had stronger likings or aversions. His veracity was indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value.
Sida 278 - In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use.
Sida 378 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity ; therefore I die in exile...