The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Band 3Dodd, Mead, 1890 |
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Seite 276 - And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, "Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Seite 430 - When two Powers are at war, they have a right to " ' make prizes of the ships, goods, and effects of each other " ' upon the high seas. Whatever is the property of the "
Seite 69 - ... the sole supreme government, command and disposition of the militia and of all forces by sea and land and of all forts and places of strength is and by the laws of England ever was the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England, and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same...
Seite 55 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Seite 218 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Seite 395 - ... *occasioned that mighty inundation of voluminous comments, r*«o with which this system of law, more than any other, is now loaded. •The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has, or pretends to have, the proper jurisdiction over.
Seite 55 - ... illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
Seite 195 - The offence of burglary at common law is defined to be ' a breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another in the night, with intent to commit some felony within the same, whether such felonious intent be executed or not.
Seite 218 - Wood's character of him is, that "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete,...
Seite 46 - London, to be used as a workhouse for the poor, and a house of correction ' for the strumpet and idle person, for the rioter that consumeth all, and for the vagabond that will abide in no place.