The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... courses across country . Its home is to be found at Rugby School , and amongst members of hare - and - hounds ' clubs , who ... course and events of their lives . It is in this capacity that Athor is connected with Ptah , or the Egyptian ...
... courses across country . Its home is to be found at Rugby School , and amongst members of hare - and - hounds ' clubs , who ... course and events of their lives . It is in this capacity that Athor is connected with Ptah , or the Egyptian ...
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... course as the Cape St Roque Current , and afterwards as the Guiana Current ) acquires a greatly augmented rate , running ordinarily at the rate of from 30 to 50 miles , and occasionally at a rate of 80 miles , in the 24 hours . Entering ...
... course as the Cape St Roque Current , and afterwards as the Guiana Current ) acquires a greatly augmented rate , running ordinarily at the rate of from 30 to 50 miles , and occasionally at a rate of 80 miles , in the 24 hours . Entering ...
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... course at about 100 fathoms , and its rate of flow in the line of most rapid movement at 3 miles per hour . The outermost band , on the other hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and raté of movement , into the general ...
... course at about 100 fathoms , and its rate of flow in the line of most rapid movement at 3 miles per hour . The outermost band , on the other hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and raté of movement , into the general ...
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... course of the surface currents . There is , of course , a seasonal change , alike in its northern and in its southern division , this change being more and more marked as we recede from the equator . Following the course of the mean ...
... course of the surface currents . There is , of course , a seasonal change , alike in its northern and in its southern division , this change being more and more marked as we recede from the equator . Following the course of the mean ...
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... course lying to northwards of Great Britain , is the characteristic of an open winter in Great Britain ; on the other hand , if the cyclones follow a course lying to the southward , the winters are severe . This is a chief point of ...
... course lying to northwards of Great Britain , is the characteristic of an open winter in Great Britain ; on the other hand , if the cyclones follow a course lying to the southward , the winters are severe . This is a chief point of ...
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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.