The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... called . The laws of nature are laws not properly so called . They are generalizations as to the uniform course of nature , and have no analogy to laws properly so called except in point of uniformity . Positive law , again , is dis ...
... called . The laws of nature are laws not properly so called . They are generalizations as to the uniform course of nature , and have no analogy to laws properly so called except in point of uniformity . Positive law , again , is dis ...
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... called permissive legislation , which leaves to local authorities the responsibility of deciding how far a given principle shall be applied . ( E. R. ) 2. Local Government . — As the business or society at large must be undertaken by ...
... called permissive legislation , which leaves to local authorities the responsibility of deciding how far a given principle shall be applied . ( E. R. ) 2. Local Government . — As the business or society at large must be undertaken by ...
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... called a dividing plate . In copying a straight scale the pattern and scale to be divided , usually called the work , are first fixed side by side , with their upper faces in the same plane . The dividing square , which closely ...
... called a dividing plate . In copying a straight scale the pattern and scale to be divided , usually called the work , are first fixed side by side , with their upper faces in the same plane . The dividing square , which closely ...
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... called " the Twelve Hides , " & c . This same feature distinctly reappears in the Graal legend , where Bron , the brother - in- law of Joseph , has twelve sons , who are all sent to Britain , but one among them , Alain , who renounces ...
... called " the Twelve Hides , " & c . This same feature distinctly reappears in the Graal legend , where Bron , the brother - in- law of Joseph , has twelve sons , who are all sent to Britain , but one among them , Alain , who renounces ...
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... called by systemat ists the " lower pale , " and with the " upper pale " con- sidered to form an outer floral envelope ( " calyx , " Jussieu ; " perianthium , " Brown ; " stragulum , " Palisot de Beauvois ; ' glumella , " Dumortier ) ...
... called by systemat ists the " lower pale , " and with the " upper pale " con- sidered to form an outer floral envelope ( " calyx , " Jussieu ; " perianthium , " Brown ; " stragulum , " Palisot de Beauvois ; ' glumella , " Dumortier ) ...
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