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... color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in Africa . It takes up its residence and breeds in the midst of cities , and is every where ...
... color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in Africa . It takes up its residence and breeds in the midst of cities , and is every where ...
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... color , when the strawberries have attained maturity . The strawberry is easily cultivated , and numerous varieties have been produced ; some of great excellence have been ob- tained recently . It forces well , and , with a little ...
... color , when the strawberries have attained maturity . The strawberry is easily cultivated , and numerous varieties have been produced ; some of great excellence have been ob- tained recently . It forces well , and , with a little ...
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... color , possesses a pungent , acrid taste , and , when powdered in a mortar , the dust that rises irritates the lungs and nostrils . It is an unusually heavy earth , approaching barytes in spe- cific gravity . It requires rather more ...
... color , possesses a pungent , acrid taste , and , when powdered in a mortar , the dust that rises irritates the lungs and nostrils . It is an unusually heavy earth , approaching barytes in spe- cific gravity . It requires rather more ...
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... color white , passing to sky and smalt - blue ; also reddish - white ; trans- parent or translucent ; brittle ; hardness between calcareous spar and fluor ; spe- cific gravity 3.8 . Besides occurring in erfect crystals , celestine is ...
... color white , passing to sky and smalt - blue ; also reddish - white ; trans- parent or translucent ; brittle ; hardness between calcareous spar and fluor ; spe- cific gravity 3.8 . Besides occurring in erfect crystals , celestine is ...
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... color , has an intolerably bitter taste , and leaves a metallic impression in the mouth ; it is destitute of odor , and is not altered by exposure to the air ; it is neither fusible nor volatile , except at tem- peratures at which it ...
... color , has an intolerably bitter taste , and leaves a metallic impression in the mouth ; it is destitute of odor , and is not altered by exposure to the air ; it is neither fusible nor volatile , except at tem- peratures at which it ...
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Seite 421 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 71 - England, at different periods, towards the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth...
Seite 64 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Seite 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Seite 411 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 399 - Mémoire à consulter sur un système religieux et politique, tendant à renverser la religion, . la société et le trône.
Seite 411 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic...
Seite 344 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
Seite 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Seite 192 - Free services were such as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform; as to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry out his dung, or other mean employments.