The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Tom 14

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George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana
D. Appleton, 1862

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Strona 498 - When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished...
Strona 554 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Strona 116 - A hue, from huer, to shout, and cry, hutesium et clamor, is the old common law process of pursuing, with horn and with voice, all felons, and such as have dangerously wounded another.
Strona 552 - With neither of them, that take offence, was I acquainted ; and with one of them [Marlowe] I care not if I never be : the other, [Shakespeare] whom at that time I did not so much spare, as since I wish I had, for that as I have moderated the...
Strona 24 - A remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument, and limited to arise immediately on the determination of that estate, and not in abridgment of it.
Strona 480 - The master of every vessel bound from a port in the United States to any foreign port other than vessels engaged in trade between the United States and the British North American possessions, or the West India Islands, or...
Strona 2 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Strona 582 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Strona 292 - sale" is a word of precise legal import, both at law and in equity. It means at all times a contract between parties to give and to pass rights of property for money, which the buyer pays or promises to pay to the seller for the thing bought and sold.
Strona 552 - Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you : and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

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