The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... rise , the greatness , the decline of the city may be read in the history of its buildings . There seems little reason to doubt that the earliest settle- ment on Athenian soil was upon the cliff afterwards famous as the Acropolis . Such ...
... rise , the greatness , the decline of the city may be read in the history of its buildings . There seems little reason to doubt that the earliest settle- ment on Athenian soil was upon the cliff afterwards famous as the Acropolis . Such ...
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... rise to the legend ascribing to Theseus the ovvotioμos or consolidation of Attica . It would be natural for legend ... rising of Cylon ( Herod . , v . 71 ; Thucyd . , i . 126 ; Pausan . , i . 28 ) . The narratives of that event imply ...
... rise to the legend ascribing to Theseus the ovvotioμos or consolidation of Attica . It would be natural for legend ... rising of Cylon ( Herod . , v . 71 ; Thucyd . , i . 126 ; Pausan . , i . 28 ) . The narratives of that event imply ...
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... rise to the meetings now annually held in the picturesque College Park at Dublin . The Irish civil service meeting was inaugurated in 1867 , since which time the pastime has made marvellous strides in the island , as is testified by ...
... rise to the meetings now annually held in the picturesque College Park at Dublin . The Irish civil service meeting was inaugurated in 1867 , since which time the pastime has made marvellous strides in the island , as is testified by ...
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... rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively shallowing towards its continental shore - line . Further out , in mid- ocean , lies the group of the Azores , which also is volcanic , and rises from the plateau ...
... rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively shallowing towards its continental shore - line . Further out , in mid- ocean , lies the group of the Azores , which also is volcanic , and rises from the plateau ...
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... rising to 14 ° .5 at Fruholm near the North Cape . And it is also a very significant fact ( ascertained by the care- ful inquiries of Mr Buchan ) , that while the summer isotherms cross the British Islands nearly east and west ( the ...
... rising to 14 ° .5 at Fruholm near the North Cape . And it is also a very significant fact ( ascertained by the care- ful inquiries of Mr Buchan ) , that while the summer isotherms cross the British Islands nearly east and west ( the ...
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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.