The English CyclopaediaBradbury, Evans, 1867 |
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... means more particularly a species of didactic composition , consisting of a short fictitious tale inculcating a ... mean that such a fact had occurred at any particular time , though it might have occurred , but he chose this figure as ...
... means more particularly a species of didactic composition , consisting of a short fictitious tale inculcating a ... mean that such a fact had occurred at any particular time , though it might have occurred , but he chose this figure as ...
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... means of district commissioners in all the factory districts . This local machinery formed a groundwork for the inspectorship afterwards established by the government when the act was obtained . Four inspectors were appointed , and the ...
... means of district commissioners in all the factory districts . This local machinery formed a groundwork for the inspectorship afterwards established by the government when the act was obtained . Four inspectors were appointed , and the ...
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... means belief or trust in a fact or doctrine , and is more especially used to express the belief of Christians in the tenets of their religion , and also by figure to mean that religion itself . The great divisions of Christianity , the ...
... means belief or trust in a fact or doctrine , and is more especially used to express the belief of Christians in the tenets of their religion , and also by figure to mean that religion itself . The great divisions of Christianity , the ...
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... means he greatly increased the revenue of the state . But the practice of private contracts through favour or bribing was renewed under the following reigns ; Colbert , the minister of Louis XIV . , called the farmers of the revenue to ...
... means he greatly increased the revenue of the state . But the practice of private contracts through favour or bribing was renewed under the following reigns ; Colbert , the minister of Louis XIV . , called the farmers of the revenue to ...
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... means of ligatures , & c . on the veins , will pro- duce swellings of parts of the body . Swellings also of the joints , so as to resemble white swellings , are produced by the application of various acrid plants , as the ranunculus ...
... means of ligatures , & c . on the veins , will pro- duce swellings of parts of the body . Swellings also of the joints , so as to resemble white swellings , are produced by the application of various acrid plants , as the ranunculus ...
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Page 23 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
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Page 167 - Augsburg, who lived at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries, and by whom are the following plates : The Resurrection.
Page 55 - ... sit and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord, and shall say thus: I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our sovereign lord the king; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
Page 339 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
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Page 163 - VI. c.14. to be the buying or contracting for any merchandise or victual coming in the way to market; or dissuading persons from bringing their goods or provisions there: or persuading them to enhance the price, when there: any of which practices make the market dearer to the fair trader.
Page 165 - Italian cannot by any means endure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike clean. Hereupon I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
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Page 89 - It was either poured from the rampart in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream...