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... island to island , ravenous for and shaggy , and on the upper part of the head and prey . Animals of the land and of the sea , birds neck it is sometimes twelve inches in length , and and their eggs , the dead and the living , are alike ...
... island to island , ravenous for and shaggy , and on the upper part of the head and prey . Animals of the land and of the sea , birds neck it is sometimes twelve inches in length , and and their eggs , the dead and the living , are alike ...
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... island , and Giraldus Cambrensis gives us a short account of their manners in Wales ; but even in his time ( 1188 ) they were found only on the river Teify . Pennant says , two or three waters in that principality still bear the name of ...
... island , and Giraldus Cambrensis gives us a short account of their manners in Wales ; but even in his time ( 1188 ) they were found only on the river Teify . Pennant says , two or three waters in that principality still bear the name of ...
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... island is high to the N. W. , steep and cliffy , but slopes gradually down to the southern shores , which are low . Fresh water is found on it . The north point of the island is in 55 ° 22 ′ N. lat . , 165 ° 51 ' E. long . BEHRING'S ...
... island is high to the N. W. , steep and cliffy , but slopes gradually down to the southern shores , which are low . Fresh water is found on it . The north point of the island is in 55 ° 22 ′ N. lat . , 165 ° 51 ' E. long . BEHRING'S ...
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... island on the west coast of France , a little and errors . She died in 1788 , at Edinburgh , in great distress . BELLE DE NUIT , a name given by the French to various kinds of bind - weeds . In tro- pical countries those plants occur in ...
... island on the west coast of France , a little and errors . She died in 1788 , at Edinburgh , in great distress . BELLE DE NUIT , a name given by the French to various kinds of bind - weeds . In tro- pical countries those plants occur in ...
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... islands of Zealand and Funen , and is about and often on all . The term is an Italian com- 12 miles wide ; but at its southern extremity it pound , signifying ' a fine view ; ' and in Italy it is is divided into two straits by the island ...
... islands of Zealand and Funen , and is about and often on all . The term is an Italian com- 12 miles wide ; but at its southern extremity it pound , signifying ' a fine view ; ' and in Italy it is is divided into two straits by the island ...
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Page 805 - This Church was erected in the year 1835, containing 323 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of Churches and Chapels , 193 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.
Page 293 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution...
Page 315 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 131 - Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland, and on the Principles of mercantile Jurisprudence, considered in relation to Bankruptcy, Competitions of Creditors, and Imprisonment for Debt.
Page 173 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 685 - ... is supposed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation eats up a part of the capital employed in it, and which is of such a nature, that, if all other trades resembled it, there would soon be no capital left in the country.
Page 357 - And the arch-bishop has a customary prerogative, when a bishop is consecrated by him, to name a clerk or chaplain of his own to be provided for by such suffragan bishop ; in lieu of which it is now usual for the bishop to make over by deed to the arch-bishop, his executors and assigns, the next presentation of such dignity or benefice in the bishop's disposal within that see, as the arch-bishop himself shall choose; which is therefore called his option " : which options are only binding on the bishop...
Page 399 - He it is, in short, who, first of all institutional writers, has taught jurisprudence to speak the language of the scholar and the gentleman; put a polish upon that rugged science; cleansed her from the dust and cobwebs of the office; and, if he has not enriched her with that precision...
Page 461 - ... rendered him quite powerless, had presence of mind enough to cut with a large knife, which he carried about with him, deep gashes in the neck and throat of his antagonist, thereby killing him, and disengaging himself from his frightful situation. He never afterwards, however, recovered the use of that limb, which had sustained considerable injury from his fangs, and the mere force of his jaws.
Page 411 - God and religion, is that of blasphemy against the Almighty, by denying his being or providence ; or by contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Whither also may be referred all profane scoffing at the holy scripture, . or exposing it to contempt and ridicule.