The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... portion of the Acro- polis is the western side , where it is joined by a neck of hill to the Areopagus . On this side there existed down to later times the remains of fortifications built by the earliest inhabitants , with nine doorways ...
... portion of the Acro- polis is the western side , where it is joined by a neck of hill to the Areopagus . On this side there existed down to later times the remains of fortifications built by the earliest inhabitants , with nine doorways ...
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... portion of the city wall between the Museium and the Nymphs ' Hill a sort of bastion was thrown out to S.W. so as to form an irregular triangle , from the apex of which a " long wall , " about 4 miles long , was carried down to the N.
... portion of the city wall between the Museium and the Nymphs ' Hill a sort of bastion was thrown out to S.W. so as to form an irregular triangle , from the apex of which a " long wall , " about 4 miles long , was carried down to the N.
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... portion of the mid - African coast - line which is known as the Gulf of Guinea . This correspondence suggested to Humboldt the idea that the Atlantic basin was originally excavated by a very violent rush of water from the south , which ...
... portion of the mid - African coast - line which is known as the Gulf of Guinea . This correspondence suggested to Humboldt the idea that the Atlantic basin was originally excavated by a very violent rush of water from the south , which ...
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... portion of its floor has a depth exceeding 3000 fathoms , or about 34 miles , the greatest depth determined by the recent " Challenger " sound- ings , which was that of a limited depression about a hundred miles to the north of St ...
... portion of its floor has a depth exceeding 3000 fathoms , or about 34 miles , the greatest depth determined by the recent " Challenger " sound- ings , which was that of a limited depression about a hundred miles to the north of St ...
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... portion of the current which is deflected into the northern hemisphere is much greater than that which is turned to the southward . It is 1 Mr Laughton , however , states the average velocity to be between 20 and 30 miles per day , a ...
... portion of the current which is deflected into the northern hemisphere is much greater than that which is turned to the southward . It is 1 Mr Laughton , however , states the average velocity to be between 20 and 30 miles per day , a ...
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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.