Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volumen3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 |
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... presents an apparently general likeness , no two in twenty thousand have their angles and sides equal amorg themselves or to each other . The figure of these columns , as has just been said , is almost universally pentagonal : some few ...
... presents an apparently general likeness , no two in twenty thousand have their angles and sides equal amorg themselves or to each other . The figure of these columns , as has just been said , is almost universally pentagonal : some few ...
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... present from infinity to infinity . He governs all things that exist , and knows all things that are to be known . He is not eternity or infinity , but eternal and infinite . He is not duration and space , but he endures and is present ...
... present from infinity to infinity . He governs all things that exist , and knows all things that are to be known . He is not eternity or infinity , but eternal and infinite . He is not duration and space , but he endures and is present ...
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... present the appearance of a bundle of rods . Of the loose ends of the rods , the skeleton of a thatched roof may be readily formed . A rod from one of the posts being so bent as to meet a similar one from the post immediately opposite ...
... present the appearance of a bundle of rods . Of the loose ends of the rods , the skeleton of a thatched roof may be readily formed . A rod from one of the posts being so bent as to meet a similar one from the post immediately opposite ...
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... present , they are chiefly known in Europe as petty thieves , and pretenders to skill in that universal superstition , the prediction of things to come . GYRINUS , the water - flea , a genus of insects of the order coleoptera : they are ...
... present , they are chiefly known in Europe as petty thieves , and pretenders to skill in that universal superstition , the prediction of things to come . GYRINUS , the water - flea , a genus of insects of the order coleoptera : they are ...
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... present Majesty , to one thousand , and they are now eleven hundred . HAGGAI , the tenth of the minor prophets , who prophesied about 520 years before Christ . The occasion of his prophecy was the stop which was put to the building of ...
... present Majesty , to one thousand , and they are now eleven hundred . HAGGAI , the tenth of the minor prophets , who prophesied about 520 years before Christ . The occasion of his prophecy was the stop which was put to the building of ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 359 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Página 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Página 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Página 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Página 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Página 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Página 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Página 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.