The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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61. oldal
... born at Rome 109 B.C. , and was thus three years older than Cicero , along with whom he and the younger Marius were educated . His family is said to have been of noble and ancient descent ; his father belonged to the equestrian order ...
... born at Rome 109 B.C. , and was thus three years older than Cicero , along with whom he and the younger Marius were educated . His family is said to have been of noble and ancient descent ; his father belonged to the equestrian order ...
65. oldal
... born in London in 1767. As one of the boy choristers in the chapel royal he received his early instruction in music from Nares and Ayrton . In 1783 he was sent to study . abroad at the expense of the Prince of Wales , who had been ...
... born in London in 1767. As one of the boy choristers in the chapel royal he received his early instruction in music from Nares and Ayrton . In 1783 he was sent to study . abroad at the expense of the Prince of Wales , who had been ...
68. oldal
... born in 1744. He was edu- cated at Eton and Oxford , and adopted the profession of the law . At the age of twenty - seven he resigned his practice at the bar , and engaged in political life as under - secretary to Lord Suffolk . By the ...
... born in 1744. He was edu- cated at Eton and Oxford , and adopted the profession of the law . At the age of twenty - seven he resigned his practice at the bar , and engaged in political life as under - secretary to Lord Suffolk . By the ...
70. oldal
... born at Paris , April 27 , 1797. He began sidered his masterpiece . the study of law , but was diverted from it by his strong predilection for natural history , which subsequently led him to enter the medical profession . In 1824 he was ...
... born at Paris , April 27 , 1797. He began sidered his masterpiece . the study of law , but was diverted from it by his strong predilection for natural history , which subsequently led him to enter the medical profession . In 1824 he was ...
75. oldal
... born at Eschenberga , near Gotha , in 1772. He was of Jewish descent , his grandfather having been a rabbi who had been converted to the Christian faith . His early education he received partly from Moller , pastor of Gierstädt , who ...
... born at Eschenberga , near Gotha , in 1772. He was of Jewish descent , his grandfather having been a rabbi who had been converted to the Christian faith . His early education he received partly from Moller , pastor of Gierstädt , who ...
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61. oldal - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
303. oldal - Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles...
74. oldal - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
210. oldal - MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
208. oldal - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
49. oldal - It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance...
50. oldal - By sec. 1, from and after the passing of this Act, no confession, verdict, inquest, conviction, or judgment of, or for any treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any attainder or corruption of blood, or any forfeiture, or escheat, provided that nothing in this Act shall affect the law of forfeiture consequent upon outlawry.
303. oldal - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
87. oldal - ... what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has...
47. oldal - ... we know, be of the kind which metaphysicians call necessary. We may use our knowledge of such truths for purposes of deduction, but we have no data for speculating as to their origin.