The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, 9. köideWerner Company, 1907 |
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... ground with it in her talons ; this term is not applied to large quarry . ( See Bind . ) Varvels . Small rings , generally of silver , fastened to the end of the jesses - not much used now . Wait on . - A hawk is said to “ wait on ...
... ground with it in her talons ; this term is not applied to large quarry . ( See Bind . ) Varvels . Small rings , generally of silver , fastened to the end of the jesses - not much used now . Wait on . - A hawk is said to “ wait on ...
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... ground , taking stand in a tree , raking out wide , skimming the ground , or lazily flying about at no height . A good game hawk in proper flying order goes up at once to a good pitch in the air- the higher she flies the better - and ...
... ground , taking stand in a tree , raking out wide , skimming the ground , or lazily flying about at no height . A good game hawk in proper flying order goes up at once to a good pitch in the air- the higher she flies the better - and ...
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... ground of prior discovery , and his doing so was nearly the cause of a war between England and Spain , both countries having armed fleets to contest the barren sovereignty . In 1771 , however , Spain yielded the islands to Great Britain ...
... ground of prior discovery , and his doing so was nearly the cause of a war between England and Spain , both countries having armed fleets to contest the barren sovereignty . In 1771 , however , Spain yielded the islands to Great Britain ...
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... ground , and so is destroyed . This cause of famine applies in a marked manner to tropical countries , where the rains are so much of the nature of torrents that the evil presents itself in a magni- fied degree . Improved cultivation of ...
... ground , and so is destroyed . This cause of famine applies in a marked manner to tropical countries , where the rains are so much of the nature of torrents that the evil presents itself in a magni- fied degree . Improved cultivation of ...
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... ground plan of two versions , -the first on the lines of the original legend , the second without any supernatural ... grounds . He is mentioned as a contemporary by Trithemius ( 1507 ) , Mutianus Rufus ( 1513 ) , Begardi ( 1539 ) , and ...
... ground plan of two versions , -the first on the lines of the original legend , the second without any supernatural ... grounds . He is mentioned as a contemporary by Trithemius ( 1507 ) , Mutianus Rufus ( 1513 ) , Begardi ( 1539 ) , and ...
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Page 22 - 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 43 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 254 - 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.
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Page 264 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 76 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 41 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 123 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 123 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...