The encyclopædic dictionary. 7 vols. [in 14].

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Seite 375 - Encyclopaedic Dictionary, The. A New and Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language.
Seite 408 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Seite 608 - Originally the dog of an unqualified person, which by the forest laws must, have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail of a dog is necessary to him in running...
Seite 470 - He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
Seite 439 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...
Seite 518 - This court-baron is of two natures : the one is a customary court, of which we formerly spoke, appertaining entirely to the copyholders, in which their estates are transferred by surrender and admittance and other matters transacted relative to their tenures only. The other...
Seite 424 - Conscience is a Latin word (though with an English termination), and according to the very notation of it imports a double or joint knowledge ; to wit,. one of a divine law or rule, and the other of a man's own action: and so is properly the application of a general law to a particular instance of practice.
Seite 521 - If the covenantor covenants for himself and his heirs, it is then a covenant real, and descends upon the heirs ; who are bound to perform it, provided they have assets by descent, .but not otherwise: if he covenants also for his executors and administrators, his personal assets, as well as his real, are likewise pledged for the performance of the covenant. which makes such covenant a better security than any warranty. It is...
Seite 516 - Coupling, in machinery, is the name given to various arrangements by which the parts of a machine may be connected or disconnected at pleasure, or by which a machine may be disengaged from, or reengaged with, a revolving wheel or shaft, through which it receives motion from a steam-engine, waterwheel, or other prime mover.
Seite 439 - In the unity of the God-head there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost : the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding ; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father ; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.

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