XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, Volumen3Gebbie & Company, 1901 |
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Página 67 - Steps to the Temple," " Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses," and "Poemata,"
Página 465 - Generation," delivered before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was president.
Página 155 - Declaration: 1 . Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Página 448 - The rule of law is, that the best evidence must be given of which the nature of the thing is capable ; that is, that no evidence shall be received which presupposes greater evidence behind, in the party's possession or power.
Página 303 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Página 68 - A further development of iron smelting and later on of coal mining took place at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.
Página 402 - Regrating was described by the same statute to be the buying of corn, or other dead victual, in any market, and selling it again in the same market, or within four miles of the place.
Página 381 - Hereford Hertford Huntingdon Kent Lancaster Leicester Lincoln Middlesex Monmouth Norfolk Northampton .. . Northumberland Nottingham .... Oxford Rutland Salop Somerset Stafford Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwick Westmoreland . . Wilts Worcester York, B.
Página 262 - They took unusual care to fence themselves round with mysteries, and it is probable that they cherished doctrines unknown to the common people; but that they had a great secret philosophy which was handed down by oral tradition is very unlikely. Of their religious doctrines little is known.
Página 505 - Sumatra, manufactures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use of are very coarse and clumsy. The workmen melt the gold in a crucible of their own forming, and, instead of bellows, they blow with their mouths through a piece of bamboo. They draw and flatten the...