The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Band 3Werner Company, 1907 |
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... coast , and only when more settled times brought buildings . her greater prosperity was a harbor formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St. George . It is said that Themistocles would gladly have transported ...
... coast , and only when more settled times brought buildings . her greater prosperity was a harbor formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St. George . It is said that Themistocles would gladly have transported ...
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... coast of Turkey ( Macedonia ) , like the prongs of a trident , into the Archipelago . The name is , however , frequently extended to the whole peninsula which was formerly known as Acte . The peak rises like a pyramid , with a steep ...
... coast of Turkey ( Macedonia ) , like the prongs of a trident , into the Archipelago . The name is , however , frequently extended to the whole peninsula which was formerly known as Acte . The peak rises like a pyramid , with a steep ...
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... coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa_corresponds with the vast bay that stretches from Nova Scotia to St. Thomas ; whilst the angular projection of South ...
... coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa_corresponds with the vast bay that stretches from Nova Scotia to St. Thomas ; whilst the angular projection of South ...
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... coast of Sierra Leone ( between 5 ° and 8 ° N. lat . ) the African and American continents approach within 1500 miles of each other . The sudden eastward recession of the African coast as it approaches the equator , and the west- ward ...
... coast of Sierra Leone ( between 5 ° and 8 ° N. lat . ) the African and American continents approach within 1500 miles of each other . The sudden eastward recession of the African coast as it approaches the equator , and the west- ward ...
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... coast of North Africa , there are three principal groups , the Madeiras , Canaries , and Cape Verd , -all of which have an evidently volcanic origin , and rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively ...
... coast of North Africa , there are three principal groups , the Madeiras , Canaries , and Cape Verd , -all of which have an evidently volcanic origin , and rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively ...
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Seite 276 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever, erected or to be erected, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Seite 246 - C'est qu'on fut malheureux de ne pouvoir vous plaire. VADIUS Il faut qu'en écoutant j'aie eu l'esprit distrait, Ou bien que le lecteur m'ait gâté le sonnet. Mais laissons ce discours et voyons ma ballade. TRISSOTIN La ballade, à mon goût, est une chose fade. Ce n'en est plus la mode ; elle sent son vieux temps.
Seite 182 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Seite 188 - But the induction which is to be available for the discovery and demonstration of sciences and arts must analyse nature by proper rejections and exclusions, and then, after a sufficient number of negatives, come to a conclusion on the affirmative instances...
Seite 78 - One man, when he has done a service to another, is ready to set it down to his account as a favor conferred. Another is not ready to do this, but still in his own mind he thinks of the man as his debtor, and he knows what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, I but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and ( seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit.
Seite 182 - It resteth therefore that, without fig-leaves, I do ingenuously confess and acknowledge that having understood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the House but enough to inform my conscience and memory, I find matter sufficient and full both to move me to desert the defence and to move your Lordships to condemn and censure me.
Seite 56 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity...
Seite 45 - It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance...
Seite 267 - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Seite 185 - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.