Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors, Volumen9American Book Exchange, 1881 |
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... , destroyed many buildings . The city has recently ( Jan. , 1881 ) been captured by the Chilian forces in the process of the lamentable war between Peru and Chili . U. K. IX - 3 Lima . Lime . It See BRAZIL WOOD . LIMA 33 Lillebonne . Lima .
... , destroyed many buildings . The city has recently ( Jan. , 1881 ) been captured by the Chilian forces in the process of the lamentable war between Peru and Chili . U. K. IX - 3 Lima . Lime . It See BRAZIL WOOD . LIMA 33 Lillebonne . Lima .
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... Lime . It See BRAZIL WOOD . LIMA WOOD , a name of the dye - wood also called Pernambuco wood , Nicaragua wood , and peach wood , the heart - wood of Cesalpinia echinata . is extensively used for dyeing red and peach - color . LIMAX and ...
... Lime . It See BRAZIL WOOD . LIMA WOOD , a name of the dye - wood also called Pernambuco wood , Nicaragua wood , and peach wood , the heart - wood of Cesalpinia echinata . is extensively used for dyeing red and peach - color . LIMAX and ...
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... lime is left . Com- mercial lime , which is obtained by burning common limestone in a kiln , is usually very far from pure . This compound ( CaO ) is known as quicklime , or , from the ordinary method of obtaining it , as burned lime ...
... lime is left . Com- mercial lime , which is obtained by burning common limestone in a kiln , is usually very far from pure . This compound ( CaO ) is known as quicklime , or , from the ordinary method of obtaining it , as burned lime ...
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... lime applied shows that its manurial effect is due more to its producing a certain chemical effect on the land than to its affording nutriment to the crops . Lime promotes the decomposition of all kinds of vegetable matter in the soil ...
... lime applied shows that its manurial effect is due more to its producing a certain chemical effect on the land than to its affording nutriment to the crops . Lime promotes the decomposition of all kinds of vegetable matter in the soil ...
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... lime . Within a short distance of the city of Limerick is a quarry which produces a reddish - brown marble of fine quality , as well as a black marble of inferior value . More than one of the districts contains iron , copper , and lead ...
... lime . Within a short distance of the city of Limerick is a quarry which produces a reddish - brown marble of fine quality , as well as a black marble of inferior value . More than one of the districts contains iron , copper , and lead ...
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Página 50 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 173 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Página 127 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Página 50 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 50 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Página 231 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Página 127 - Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, ' Logan is the friend of the white man.
Página 50 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 114 - I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Página 269 - O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...