The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Tom 1Thomas Spencer Baynes R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... death of Barneveldt , who was put to death by the States - General , after the semblance of a trial , in 1619 . ABABDE , an African tribe occupying the country be- tween the Red Sea and the Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as ...
... death of Barneveldt , who was put to death by the States - General , after the semblance of a trial , in 1619 . ABABDE , an African tribe occupying the country be- tween the Red Sea and the Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as ...
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... death of the person , last seised , a stranger enters upon lands before the entry of the heir or devisee , and keeps the latter out of possession . It differs from intrusion , which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a ...
... death of the person , last seised , a stranger enters upon lands before the entry of the heir or devisee , and keeps the latter out of possession . It differs from intrusion , which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a ...
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... death , and the vanquished family was treated with a severity which gained for Abul- Abbas the surname of Al - Saffah , the Blood - shedder . From this time the house of Abbas was fully established in the government , but the Spanish ...
... death , and the vanquished family was treated with a severity which gained for Abul- Abbas the surname of Al - Saffah , the Blood - shedder . From this time the house of Abbas was fully established in the government , but the Spanish ...
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... death . The misery of those years was not , however , unrelieved ; for he had been able , on the breaking - up of Heloise's convent at Argenteuil , to establish her as head of a new religious brouse at the deserted Paraclete , and in ...
... death . The misery of those years was not , however , unrelieved ; for he had been able , on the breaking - up of Heloise's convent at Argenteuil , to establish her as head of a new religious brouse at the deserted Paraclete , and in ...
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... death is uncertain . It has been variously assigned to 1715 , 1716 , 1720 , and 1726 , and it is usually added that he left a widow in great poverty . That he was living in 1716 is certain , as Crawford speaks of him ( in his Peerage ...
... death is uncertain . It has been variously assigned to 1715 , 1716 , 1720 , and 1726 , and it is usually added that he left a widow in great poverty . That he was living in 1716 is certain , as Crawford speaks of him ( in his Peerage ...
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Strona 134 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept : and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Strona 292 - Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die : and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Strona 33 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Strona 53 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Strona 141 - It looks likely to me; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people, according to the exactest computations, will, in another century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have, I may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain a mastery of the seas ; and then the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us.
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Strona 141 - ... the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us.
Strona 298 - They have neither good bread, cheese, nor drink. They cannot make them, nor will they learn. Their butter is very indifferent, and one would wonder how they could contrive to make it so bad.
Strona 203 - When a body floats freely in a fluid the weight of the body is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Strona 134 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.