The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... greater security , at a distance from the coast , and only when more settled times brought her greater prosperity was a harbour formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St George . It is said that Themistocles ...
... greater security , at a distance from the coast , and only when more settled times brought her greater prosperity was a harbour formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St George . It is said that Themistocles ...
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... greater part of the city was laid in ruins , and most of the inhabitants were dispersed . | In 1834 it was declared the capital of the new kingdom of Greece . Great exertions have been made since then to restore the city ; streets have ...
... greater part of the city was laid in ruins , and most of the inhabitants were dispersed . | In 1834 it was declared the capital of the new kingdom of Greece . Great exertions have been made since then to restore the city ; streets have ...
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... greater part of the buildings , both public and private . Population- ( 1860 ) , 9554 ; ( 1870 ) , 21,789 . HE designation Atlantic Ocean , originally given to the sea that lies beyond the great range of Atlas in North - western Africa ...
... greater part of the buildings , both public and private . Population- ( 1860 ) , 9554 ; ( 1870 ) , 21,789 . HE designation Atlantic Ocean , originally given to the sea that lies beyond the great range of Atlas in North - western Africa ...
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... greater distance from land than it appears to do elsewhere . One of these lies in the neighbourhood of the British Isles . For a dis- tance of about 230 miles to the westward of Ireland there is a slope of only about 6 feet in a mile ...
... greater distance from land than it appears to do elsewhere . One of these lies in the neighbourhood of the British Isles . For a dis- tance of about 230 miles to the westward of Ireland there is a slope of only about 6 feet in a mile ...
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... greater than 50 fathoms . He estimates its rate at the surface to be about 0.75 iniles per hour , or 18 miles per day , whilst at 50 fathoms it only moves at about half that rate.1 Its surface temperature generally ranges between 75 ...
... greater than 50 fathoms . He estimates its rate at the surface to be about 0.75 iniles per hour , or 18 miles per day , whilst at 50 fathoms it only moves at about half that rate.1 Its surface temperature generally ranges between 75 ...
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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.