The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideHenry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
... united ; the fertile are followed by the large , succulent fruit that gives the gourds their chief economic value . Many varieties of Cucurbita are under cultivation in tropical and temperate climates , especially in southern Asia ; but ...
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... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
... united in his own person all the leading offices , and used them to give a seemingly legal title to what was essentially military despotism . There is no more interesting constitu- tional study than the chapters in which Tacitus traces ...
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... united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed feudalism of France , and out of this feudalism the fluctuating , and each individual minister ...
... united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed feudalism of France , and out of this feudalism the fluctuating , and each individual minister ...
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... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
... United States congress , and in the sepa- whole power of the House of Commons is concentrated rate States of the Union , there are two houses of legis- in its hands . At the same time , it has no place whatever lature . This result has ...
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... United States . - The United States offers a very different solution of the problem . The American president is at once king and prime minister ; and there is no titular superior to act as a conduit - pipe between him and his successor ...
... United States . - The United States offers a very different solution of the problem . The American president is at once king and prime minister ; and there is no titular superior to act as a conduit - pipe between him and his successor ...
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Page 159 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 10 - ... by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it.
Page 299 - The movement of the upper one was shown by an index, that pointed to the right or to the left according to the direction of the motion.
Page 10 - The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community...
Page 77 - Gray told me with a good deal of acrimony,' writes Dr. Gregory, 'that the Elegy owed its popularity entirely to the subject, and that the public would have received it as well if it had been written in prose.
Page 16 - ... only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself, his liberty and property (for no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse), the power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good, but is obliged to secure every one's property...
Page 159 - I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Page 232 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 3 - Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain, applied to illustrate the history of families manners, habits, and arts at the different ^periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century.
Page 313 - The magistrate shall not make war with any deceitful machine, or with poisoned weapons, or with cannon and guns, or any kind of fire-arms.