The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 8Charles Knight, 1837 |
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... sometimes in the form of the modillion or mutule em- dow . Small semicircular towers projecting at the angles ployed in entablatures , and also like the console of a win- on perpendicular surfaces of large towers or other edifices In ...
... sometimes in the form of the modillion or mutule em- dow . Small semicircular towers projecting at the angles ployed in entablatures , and also like the console of a win- on perpendicular surfaces of large towers or other edifices In ...
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... sometimes given to the town of Quimper , capital of the department of Finistère in France ; but more commonly appropriated to a district formerly con- stituting the domains of a Breton count , who took his title from it . Its extent is ...
... sometimes given to the town of Quimper , capital of the department of Finistère in France ; but more commonly appropriated to a district formerly con- stituting the domains of a Breton count , who took his title from it . Its extent is ...
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... sometimes furnished with a margin which is thick and re- flected outwards ; at other times two elongated tongue - like processes , terminated in a point or digitated , extend from each of the sides ; lastly , adds M. D'Orbigny , in some ...
... sometimes furnished with a margin which is thick and re- flected outwards ; at other times two elongated tongue - like processes , terminated in a point or digitated , extend from each of the sides ; lastly , adds M. D'Orbigny , in some ...
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... sometimes floated , a thick and heavy shell would have been inappli- cable ; and as a thin shell inclosing air would be exposed to various and often intense degrees of pressure at the bot- tom , we find a series of provisions to afford ...
... sometimes floated , a thick and heavy shell would have been inappli- cable ; and as a thin shell inclosing air would be exposed to various and often intense degrees of pressure at the bot- tom , we find a series of provisions to afford ...
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... sometimes disappears , after sinking 100 feet more , and is succeeded by copper ; in others , tin is found to the depth of 1000 feet beneath the surface , almost without a trace of copper ; if copper be first discovered , it is very ...
... sometimes disappears , after sinking 100 feet more , and is succeeded by copper ; in others , tin is found to the depth of 1000 feet beneath the surface , almost without a trace of copper ; if copper be first discovered , it is very ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 42 - 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 :
Seite 42 - 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 maintain and preserve inviolably the Settlement of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government thereof, as by Law established within England and Ireland, and the Territories thereunto belonging...
Seite 42 - Will You solemnly promise and swear to govern the People of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging, according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the respective Laws and Customs of the same ? King. I solemnly promise so to do.
Seite 227 - Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.
Seite 170 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subjectmatter would...
Seite 298 - Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
Seite 144 - Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed : for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture.
Seite 170 - I knew not), very ordinarily appareled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hat-band ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side; his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.
Seite 170 - I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature...