The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the Belles LettresLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - 832 páginas |
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... genus of exotic shrubs , natives of North and South America : the calyx of the male flowers consists of four small , roundish , concave , and equal petals , but no corolla ; in the female flower the calyx is composed of three leaves ...
... genus of exotic shrubs , natives of North and South America : the calyx of the male flowers consists of four small , roundish , concave , and equal petals , but no corolla ; in the female flower the calyx is composed of three leaves ...
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... genus of exotic shrubs , natives of North and South America : the calyx of the male flowers consists of four small , roundish , concave , and equal petals , but no corolla ; in the female flower the calyx is composed of three leaves ...
... genus of exotic shrubs , natives of North and South America : the calyx of the male flowers consists of four small , roundish , concave , and equal petals , but no corolla ; in the female flower the calyx is composed of three leaves ...
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... genus of plants , of which there are many varieties . AMA'RUM , in mineralogy , sulphate of magnesia , or Epsom salts ; a genus of mi- neral substances , class salts , of a bitter taste , easily soluble in water , and melting in heat ...
... genus of plants , of which there are many varieties . AMA'RUM , in mineralogy , sulphate of magnesia , or Epsom salts ; a genus of mi- neral substances , class salts , of a bitter taste , easily soluble in water , and melting in heat ...
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... genus of plants of the monogynia order , belonging to the diandria class . AMETHYSTINA , ancient garments of a purple or violet colour . AMETHYSTINUS , in conchology , a species of Venus , of an ovate shape and violet colour , with ...
... genus of plants of the monogynia order , belonging to the diandria class . AMETHYSTINA , ancient garments of a purple or violet colour . AMETHYSTINUS , in conchology , a species of Venus , of an ovate shape and violet colour , with ...
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... genus of insects belonging to the order of vermes testacea . They are bi- valve , the shells unequal , and one valve is perforated near the hinge , and affixed by that perforation to some other body . Twen- ty - five species are ...
... genus of insects belonging to the order of vermes testacea . They are bi- valve , the shells unequal , and one valve is perforated near the hinge , and affixed by that perforation to some other body . Twen- ty - five species are ...
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Página 163 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Página 163 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Página 163 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Página 248 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Página 404 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 275 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Página 404 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Página 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Página 257 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Página 315 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.