The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 6Charles Knight, 1836 |
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... origin of the back of the animal , communicating with the ambient air by means of a small rounded orifice in the right side of the border of the mantle . Some of the species were placed by Linnæus under his genera Bulla and Helix ...
... origin of the back of the animal , communicating with the ambient air by means of a small rounded orifice in the right side of the border of the mantle . Some of the species were placed by Linnæus under his genera Bulla and Helix ...
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... origin of the rights of voting for members of parliament in cities and boroughs ; and the great variety of those rights is in some measure accounted for by sup- posing them to be founded upon varying local customs . It is however ...
... origin of the rights of voting for members of parliament in cities and boroughs ; and the great variety of those rights is in some measure accounted for by sup- posing them to be founded upon varying local customs . It is however ...
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... origin , but the fact is , that , after the most careful research , it is hardly possible to trace the existence of Burgos farther back than the reign of Alphonso I. of Asturias and Leon , who colo- nized as it were part of that very ...
... origin , but the fact is , that , after the most careful research , it is hardly possible to trace the existence of Burgos farther back than the reign of Alphonso I. of Asturias and Leon , who colo- nized as it were part of that very ...
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... origin of the name and of the people seems to be alike unknown . Plancher ( Hist . de Bourgogne ) has very gravely stated and refuted the various conjectures on this head . A favourite supposi- tion seems to have been that the ...
... origin of the name and of the people seems to be alike unknown . Plancher ( Hist . de Bourgogne ) has very gravely stated and refuted the various conjectures on this head . A favourite supposi- tion seems to have been that the ...
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... Origin and early History . - The origin of Bury St. Ed- mund's , or St. Edmund's Bury , as it is called by old writers , has been a subject of much discussion . Some say it was the Villa Faustina of the Romans , mentioned in the ...
... Origin and early History . - The origin of Bury St. Ed- mund's , or St. Edmund's Bury , as it is called by old writers , has been a subject of much discussion . Some say it was the Villa Faustina of the Romans , mentioned in the ...
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Page 55 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 36 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
Page 40 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 54 - Subsecivae; being a connected series of notes respecting the Geography, Chronology, and Literary History of the principal codes »and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon Laws.
Page 36 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast?
Page 176 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Page 37 - As to any remuneration, you may think my songs either above or below price ; for they shall absolutely be the one or the other. In the honest enthusiasm with which I embark in your undertaking, to talk of money, wages, fee, hire, &c., would be downright prostitution of soul ! A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend, I shall receive as a favor.
Page 29 - You, too, proceed! make falling arts your care; Erect new wonders, and the old repair; Jones and Palladio to themselves restore And be whate'er Vitruvius was before, Till kings call forth th...
Page 142 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 70 - Alas ! why do I say MY ? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers, it would have joined lands broad and rich, it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill matched in years (she is two years my elder), and — and — and — what has been the result?