Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, 10. köideW. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1896 |
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... term , the sweating system , ' soon began to be applied to more or less analogous practices in other trades , and generally to all practices objected to by the workers . Sweating ' is now used to denote unfair treatment of any kind ...
... term , the sweating system , ' soon began to be applied to more or less analogous practices in other trades , and generally to all practices objected to by the workers . Sweating ' is now used to denote unfair treatment of any kind ...
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... term applied to a zigzagging , alternate back and forward mode of progression up a slope . Aswitchback railway ' originally meant one where the ascent is up a steep incline simplified by curving the track backwards and forwards ( and ...
... term applied to a zigzagging , alternate back and forward mode of progression up a slope . Aswitchback railway ' originally meant one where the ascent is up a steep incline simplified by curving the track backwards and forwards ( and ...
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... term of office differ in each canton . The National Council consists of 147 members , elected in each canton in the pro- portion of one deputy for every 20,000 of the population . The electoral districts cannot be made up of parts of ...
... term of office differ in each canton . The National Council consists of 147 members , elected in each canton in the pro- portion of one deputy for every 20,000 of the population . The electoral districts cannot be made up of parts of ...
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... term includes weapons so diverse as the short cutting and piercing daggers and poignards and the ponderous two - handed swords of the 15th century . The blade may thus vary in length from a few inches to four feet and upwards . It may ...
... term includes weapons so diverse as the short cutting and piercing daggers and poignards and the ponderous two - handed swords of the 15th century . The blade may thus vary in length from a few inches to four feet and upwards . It may ...
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... term from the Greek usually applied to a compendium or abstract of a lecture or series of lectures , is specially ... term sylph is applied to a graceful maiden- -a change of meaning probably owing to the popu- larity of Pope's Rape of ...
... term from the Greek usually applied to a compendium or abstract of a lecture or series of lectures , is specially ... term sylph is applied to a graceful maiden- -a change of meaning probably owing to the popu- larity of Pope's Rape of ...
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Page 286 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
Page 218 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 264 - Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 279 - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the Cabinet.
Page 185 - I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Page 191 - I would prepare myself for no man in England but Lord Thurlow. When I am to meet with him, I should wish to know a day before.
Page 2 - God-dam ! elle vous sangle un soufflet de crocheteur : preuve qu'elle entend. Les Anglais, à la vérité, ajoutent, par-ci par-là, quelques autres mots en conversant; mais il est bien aisé de voir que God-dam est le fond de la langue ; et si monseigneur n'a pas d'autre motif de me laisser en Espagne...
Page 128 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 270 - ... or their measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe both houses, or either house of parliament...
Page 21 - ... years. No one is bound to pay taxes specially appropriated to defraying the expenses of a creed to which he does not belong. The free exercise of worship is guaranteed within the limits compatible with public order and proper behaviour.