The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... surface with a sharp knife . Under the unfrequent condition of a warın day with the sun shining , a pleasant aromatic odour may be perceived where the plants abound , and a pale yellow astringent gum exudes from the surface , which is ...
... surface with a sharp knife . Under the unfrequent condition of a warın day with the sun shining , a pleasant aromatic odour may be perceived where the plants abound , and a pale yellow astringent gum exudes from the surface , which is ...
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... surface being occupied by the Upper and Lower Loughs Erne , which stretch for 45 miles from S.E. to N.W. These lakes are formed by the expan- sion of the river Erne , which enters the county from Cavan at Wattle Bridge , and spreads out ...
... surface being occupied by the Upper and Lower Loughs Erne , which stretch for 45 miles from S.E. to N.W. These lakes are formed by the expan- sion of the river Erne , which enters the county from Cavan at Wattle Bridge , and spreads out ...
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... surface , act exactly as the platinum - black does in Döber- einer's experiment , condensing oxygen in their pores in order to hand it over to the alcohol . And , supposing this theory to be correct , the old process , which consists in ...
... surface , act exactly as the platinum - black does in Döber- einer's experiment , condensing oxygen in their pores in order to hand it over to the alcohol . And , supposing this theory to be correct , the old process , which consists in ...
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... surface of the ground by root hairs in ferns and horse tails ; in adder's tongues and club mosses it is tuberous and subterranean , while in Rhizocarpea and Selaginella it always remains more or less included within the cavity of the ...
... surface of the ground by root hairs in ferns and horse tails ; in adder's tongues and club mosses it is tuberous and subterranean , while in Rhizocarpea and Selaginella it always remains more or less included within the cavity of the ...
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... surface with a layer which would be imper- vious to air were it not interrupted by spaces filled with soft ... surfaces , especially in young fronds . There is no definite correlation in the character of these palese with other points of ...
... surface with a layer which would be imper- vious to air were it not interrupted by spaces filled with soft ... surfaces , especially in young fronds . There is no definite correlation in the character of these palese with other points of ...
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Page 25 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 294 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 117 - Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and other holy-days, according to God's holy will and pleasure and the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf; that is, in hearing the Word of God read and taught ; in private and public prayers; in acknowledging their offences to God, and amendment of the same; in reconciling themselves charitably to their neighbours, where displeasure hath been; in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ; in visiting of the poor and...
Page 304 - I knew a very wise man, so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 146 - The maid had few personal charms, but was an excellent creature, devotedly attached to her mistress, and almost broken-hearted for her loss. In the first agonies of his own grief, which approached to frenzy, he found no relief but from weeping along with her ; nor solace when a degree calmer, but in talking to her of the angel they mutually regretted. This made her his habitual confidential associate, and in process of time he began to think he could not give his children a tenderer mother, or secure...
Page 18 - Sclavonians supplying the greater part of it ; and indeed the difficulty, at the present stage of the inquiry, is to know where to stop, — to say of what races of men it is not allowable to lay down that the society in which they are united was originally organized on the patriarchal model.
Page 228 - Gaucho in the Pampas uses a different method: taking an elastic stick about eighteen inches long, he presses one end on his breast, and the other pointed end into a hole in a piece of wood, and then rapidly turns the curved part, like a carpenter's centre-bit.
Page 31 - High as man is placed above the creatures around him, there is a higher and far more exalted position within his view ; and the ways are infinite in which he occupies his thoughts about the fears or hopes or expectations of a future life. I believe that the truth of that future cannot be brought to his knowledge by any exertion of his mental powers, however exalted they may be ; that it is made known to him by other teaching than his own, and is received through simple belief of the testimony given.
Page 62 - That it be recommended to the States composing the Union, that a convention of representatives from the said States respectively, be held at , on , for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the United States of America, and reporting to the United States in Congress assembled, and to the States respectively, such alterations and amendments of the said Articles of Confederation, as the representatives met in such convention shall judge proper and necessary...
Page 31 - It would be improper here to enter upon this subject further than to claim an absolute distinction between religious and ordinary belief. I shall be reproached with the weakness of refusing to apply those mental operations which I think good in respect of high things to the very highest. I am content to bear the reproach.