American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Tom 4Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... court confesses the crime , is the most sa- tifactory ground of conviction . Implied , is where the defendant , in a case not capital , yields to the king's mercy , and desires to submit to a small fine ; which the court may accept ...
... court confesses the crime , is the most sa- tifactory ground of conviction . Implied , is where the defendant , in a case not capital , yields to the king's mercy , and desires to submit to a small fine ; which the court may accept ...
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... court , met for the dispatch of some par- ticular business . CONGREGATION , is likewise used for as- semblies of ... courts , meeting to concert matters for their common good . CONGRUITY , in geometry , is applied to figures , lines ...
... court , met for the dispatch of some par- ticular business . CONGREGATION , is likewise used for as- semblies of ... courts , meeting to concert matters for their common good . CONGRUITY , in geometry , is applied to figures , lines ...
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... court , held before his chancel- lor or commissary in his cathedral church , or other convenient place of his diocese , for ecclesiastical causes . From the bi- shop's court the appeal is to the arch- bishop ; from the archbishop's court ...
... court , held before his chancel- lor or commissary in his cathedral church , or other convenient place of his diocese , for ecclesiastical causes . From the bi- shop's court the appeal is to the arch- bishop ; from the archbishop's court ...
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... courts of Westminster hall , aldermen of London , the president and fellows of the fellowship of physic in London , surgeons and apothecaries in London , and within seven miles thereof , being free of the company of apothecaries , and ...
... courts of Westminster hall , aldermen of London , the president and fellows of the fellowship of physic in London , surgeons and apothecaries in London , and within seven miles thereof , being free of the company of apothecaries , and ...
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... courts of the decennary , the hundred , and the county , were all calcu- lated to defend general liberty , and re- strain the power of the nobles , and the admission of all freeholders in the latter court was a great check upon the ...
... courts of the decennary , the hundred , and the county , were all calcu- lated to defend general liberty , and re- strain the power of the nobles , and the admission of all freeholders in the latter court was a great check upon the ...
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Strona 6 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Strona 6 - ... solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Strona 6 - End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces...
Strona 10 - By common law: as where a person seised in fee-simple or in fee-tail dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives: in this case they shall all inherit, as will be more fully shown when we treat of descents hereafter; and these co-heirs are then called coparceners; or, for brevity, parceners only.
Strona 11 - In every quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, the rectangle of the two diagonals is equivalent to the sum of the rectangles of the opposite sides.
Strona 9 - ... sheathed with copper, he might easily have pierced it. But not being well skilled in the management of the vessel, in attempting to move to another place, he lost the ship. After seeking her in vain, for some time, he rowed some distance, and rose to the surface of the water, but found daylight had advanced so far, that he durst not renew the attempt. He says...
Strona 16 - When a man by the exertion of his rational powers has produced an original work, he seems to have clearly a right to dispose of that identical work as he pleases, and any attempt to vary the disposition he has made of it appears to be an invasion of that right.
Strona 11 - The result of my inquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality, is that the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama; that, though they may sometimes conduce to pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and instruction; and that a play written with nice observation of critical rules is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shown rather what is possible...
Strona 7 - ... forcing-pumps served to eject the water within, when necessary for ascending. At the top, there was likewise an oar, for ascending or descending, or continuing at any particular depth— A watergauge or barometer, determined the depth of descent, a compass directed the course, and a ventilator within, supplied the vessel with fresh air, when on the surface. The entrance into the vessel was elliptical, and so small as barely to admit a person.