The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 7. kötetHenry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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... marked by a series of terraces or shore - lines . The highest has an elevation cor- responding to the level of the Mediterranean . About 230 feet above the present level of the lake there is another shore - line , marked by a strip of ...
... marked by a series of terraces or shore - lines . The highest has an elevation cor- responding to the level of the Mediterranean . About 230 feet above the present level of the lake there is another shore - line , marked by a strip of ...
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... marked superiority over those who are deaf from birth . Such a calamity as the deprivation of hearing must be productive of great and varied disadvantages , as it totally excludes the mind from an extensive class of ideas and ...
... marked superiority over those who are deaf from birth . Such a calamity as the deprivation of hearing must be productive of great and varied disadvantages , as it totally excludes the mind from an extensive class of ideas and ...
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... marked feature of which is humour . The same characteristic attaches to most of his numerous animal paintings . He painted dogs , horses , & c . , with great fidelity and sympathy ; but his favourite subject was monkeys , which he ...
... marked feature of which is humour . The same characteristic attaches to most of his numerous animal paintings . He painted dogs , horses , & c . , with great fidelity and sympathy ; but his favourite subject was monkeys , which he ...
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... marked with D. D. at the top . They generally styled themselves civitatum patres curiales , and honorati municipiorum sena- tores . They were elected with the same ceremonies as the Roman senators , and they required to be at least ...
... marked with D. D. at the top . They generally styled themselves civitatum patres curiales , and honorati municipiorum sena- tores . They were elected with the same ceremonies as the Roman senators , and they required to be at least ...
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... marked logical development , it went through a sufficiently observable chronological growth . Long ere England was ripe to welcome deistic thought , Lord Herbert earned the name " Father of Deism " by laying down the main line of that ...
... marked logical development , it went through a sufficiently observable chronological growth . Long ere England was ripe to welcome deistic thought , Lord Herbert earned the name " Father of Deism " by laying down the main line of that ...
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88. oldal - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
158. oldal - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
138. oldal - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He hath spoken ; Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
286. oldal - Husband has been guilty of incestuous Adultery, or of Bigamy with Adultery, or of Rape, or of Sodomy or Bestiality, or of Adultery coupled with such Cruelty as without Adultery would have entitled her to a Divorce a Mensa et Thoro, or of Adultery coupled with Desertion, without reasonable Excuse, for Two Years or upwards...
13. oldal - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
286. oldal - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
224. oldal - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
158. oldal - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...