Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Band 3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 |
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... mind , upon whom benevolence has conferred some important good . When the affection operates according to the natural course of influence , it will be correspondent to the importance of the good obtained , the distance in station ...
... mind , upon whom benevolence has conferred some important good . When the affection operates according to the natural course of influence , it will be correspondent to the importance of the good obtained , the distance in station ...
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... mind in some pursuit : - In a prudent constitution of habits , and in bealth of body and good spirits . Hence it appears that happiness is pretty equally distributed ; and also that vice has no advantage over virtue with respect to this ...
... mind in some pursuit : - In a prudent constitution of habits , and in bealth of body and good spirits . Hence it appears that happiness is pretty equally distributed ; and also that vice has no advantage over virtue with respect to this ...
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... mind , an accurate abridgment of the narrative . It is not here recommended to commit any such abridgment to paper ( for , in that case , it will presently be forgotten , and the student's knowledge be to be found , not in his head ...
... mind , an accurate abridgment of the narrative . It is not here recommended to commit any such abridgment to paper ( for , in that case , it will presently be forgotten , and the student's knowledge be to be found , not in his head ...
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... mind the uncertainty of all historical information . Neither understandiog nor honesty are always securities for the veracity of the writer . It were endless to recount the forms in which error forces itself upon him whose record is ...
... mind the uncertainty of all historical information . Neither understandiog nor honesty are always securities for the veracity of the writer . It were endless to recount the forms in which error forces itself upon him whose record is ...
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... mind of the reader , that the appearance of the several occurrences at the same time , is the only reason that a relationship is imputed . " New husbandry " is chiefly distinguished from the “ old , " 1. by the use of new implements ; 2 ...
... mind of the reader , that the appearance of the several occurrences at the same time , is the only reason that a relationship is imputed . " New husbandry " is chiefly distinguished from the “ old , " 1. by the use of new implements ; 2 ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 359 - 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 the 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: All this I promise to do.
Seite 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Seite 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Seite 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Seite 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Seite 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Seite 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Seite 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Seite 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.