The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 9Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... present day ; for even in the rudest times man must have been possessed of means and appliances for the cap- ture of wild birds and beasts more effectual than the agency of hawks , notwithstanding the high state of efficiency to which ...
... present day ; for even in the rudest times man must have been possessed of means and appliances for the cap- ture of wild birds and beasts more effectual than the agency of hawks , notwithstanding the high state of efficiency to which ...
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... present , of the older paleozoic rocks , Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian , slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted , in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone , and on the ridges hardened sandstone pass ...
... present , of the older paleozoic rocks , Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian , slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted , in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone , and on the ridges hardened sandstone pass ...
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... present . " as this is believed to be the only existing table of the kind , and as great pains have been taken to make it complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as repre- sentative . We proceed , then , to an ...
... present . " as this is believed to be the only existing table of the kind , and as great pains have been taken to make it complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as repre- sentative . We proceed , then , to an ...
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... present writer travelled in 1874 through districts in the Western States of America devastated very much in the manner thus described . The famine now raging in North China began in one district at least by a visitation of locusts . In ...
... present writer travelled in 1874 through districts in the Western States of America devastated very much in the manner thus described . The famine now raging in North China began in one district at least by a visitation of locusts . In ...
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... present . " as this is believed to be the only existing table of the kind , and as great pains have been taken to make it complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as repre- sentative . We proceed , then , to an ...
... present . " as this is believed to be the only existing table of the kind , and as great pains have been taken to make it complete , it may for our present purpose be regarded at least as repre- sentative . We proceed , then , to an ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...