The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 7. köideHenry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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... body of the chapter- " Unus de gremio tantum potest eligi et promover ! ad decanatus dignitatem . " The duties of the dean in a Roman Catholic cathedral are to preside over the chapter , to declare the decisions to which the chapter may ...
... body of the chapter- " Unus de gremio tantum potest eligi et promover ! ad decanatus dignitatem . " The duties of the dean in a Roman Catholic cathedral are to preside over the chapter , to declare the decisions to which the chapter may ...
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... body of laws . Their election involved the abdication of all other magistrates ; they were invested with supreme power , and presided over the city with regal authority . They were , each in turn , clothed with the badges of the ...
... body of laws . Their election involved the abdication of all other magistrates ; they were invested with supreme power , and presided over the city with regal authority . They were , each in turn , clothed with the badges of the ...
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... body . In none of them is any theory on the subject specially prominent ; save in their denial of miracles , of supernatural revelation , and a special redemptive interposition of God in history , they seem to have thought of providence ...
... body . In none of them is any theory on the subject specially prominent ; save in their denial of miracles , of supernatural revelation , and a special redemptive interposition of God in history , they seem to have thought of providence ...
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... body of theological science . Ere rational- ismus vulgaris fell before the combined assault of Schleier- macher's subjective theology and the deeper historical in- | sight of the Hegelians , it had found a refuge successively in the ...
... body of theological science . Ere rational- ismus vulgaris fell before the combined assault of Schleier- macher's subjective theology and the deeper historical in- | sight of the Hegelians , it had found a refuge successively in the ...
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... body of historical | troubled by ideals , and had no affectation of them . painters , such as perhaps never before lived in one locality and at one time . From 1822 the record of his life is to be found in the successive works coming ...
... body of historical | troubled by ideals , and had no affectation of them . painters , such as perhaps never before lived in one locality and at one time . From 1822 the record of his life is to be found in the successive works coming ...
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Page 88 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 158 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 138 - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He hath spoken ; Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Page 286 - Husband has been guilty of incestuous Adultery, or of Bigamy with Adultery, or of Rape, or of Sodomy or Bestiality, or of Adultery coupled with such Cruelty as without Adultery would have entitled her to a Divorce a Mensa et Thoro, or of Adultery coupled with Desertion, without reasonable Excuse, for Two Years or upwards...
Page 13 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 286 - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
Page 224 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
Page 158 - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...