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... inhabitants abandoned the town , the Armenians emigrating to Russia , and the Turks retiring to the adjacent parts of Asia Minor . Since its restoration to the Turks by the peace of Adrianople the place is slowly rising from its state ...
... inhabitants abandoned the town , the Armenians emigrating to Russia , and the Turks retiring to the adjacent parts of Asia Minor . Since its restoration to the Turks by the peace of Adrianople the place is slowly rising from its state ...
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... inhabitants of which are principally employed in making linen , coarse cottons , and stockings ; and the possessions of the princes and counts of Schönburg , in the north - western part of the province , comprising an area of 252 square ...
... inhabitants of which are principally employed in making linen , coarse cottons , and stockings ; and the possessions of the princes and counts of Schönburg , in the north - western part of the province , comprising an area of 252 square ...
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... inhabitants manufacture light woollen stuffs , and there are several tan - yards : morocco leather is manufactured . Good wine is produced in the country round Espalion . The town has a subordinate court of justice ( tribunal de ...
... inhabitants manufacture light woollen stuffs , and there are several tan - yards : morocco leather is manufactured . Good wine is produced in the country round Espalion . The town has a subordinate court of justice ( tribunal de ...
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... Inhabitants . 73,290 13,181 35,950 34,924 34,930 9,988 81,560 27,179 18,140 4,062 59,110 13,746 ( including the borough of Malden . ) Dunmow , Central 54,670 12,791 27,710 6,807 • 28,660 7,796 12,550 6,812 109,610 40,183 73,830 37,677 ...
... Inhabitants . 73,290 13,181 35,950 34,924 34,930 9,988 81,560 27,179 18,140 4,062 59,110 13,746 ( including the borough of Malden . ) Dunmow , Central 54,670 12,791 27,710 6,807 • 28,660 7,796 12,550 6,812 109,610 40,183 73,830 37,677 ...
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... inhabitants of the parish of Great Bursted , in 1831 , were 1977 , of which about two - fifths were engaged in agri- culture . There is a weekly market on Tuesday . There are scarcely any manufactures . The living is a vicarage , with ...
... inhabitants of the parish of Great Bursted , in 1831 , were 1977 , of which about two - fifths were engaged in agri- culture . There is a weekly market on Tuesday . There are scarcely any manufactures . The living is a vicarage , with ...
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Page 153 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 267 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 267 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 218 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.
Page 177 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 101 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 259 - ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...
Page 267 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 213 - If a ferry is erected on a river, so near another ancient ferry as to draw away its custom, it is a nuisance to the owner of the old one. For where there is a ferry by prescription, the owner is bound to keep it always in repair and readiness, for the ease of all the king's subjects; otherwise he may be...
Page 230 - ... of the court, the plaintiff is at liberty to proceed against him for any other personal injury; which surmise, of being in the marshal's custody, the defendant is not at liberty to dispute.