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... portion of its substance towards the mass , though the harder , being better capable of resisting the disinte- grating and corroding influence of atmospheric causes , are found in the greatest abundance , such as quartz , petrosilex ...
... portion of its substance towards the mass , though the harder , being better capable of resisting the disinte- grating and corroding influence of atmospheric causes , are found in the greatest abundance , such as quartz , petrosilex ...
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... portion of the skin which lies immediately beneath the rete mucosum , the cellular tissue beneath the skin is always more or less involved in the inflammation , and then the tumefaction is considerable on account of the infiltration of ...
... portion of the skin which lies immediately beneath the rete mucosum , the cellular tissue beneath the skin is always more or less involved in the inflammation , and then the tumefaction is considerable on account of the infiltration of ...
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... portion of the circumference ; and the northern and western sides the circumscribing radii . It is bounded on the north by the county of Suffolk ( from which it is sepa- rated by the river Stour ) and by the county of Cambridge ( from ...
... portion of the circumference ; and the northern and western sides the circumscribing radii . It is bounded on the north by the county of Suffolk ( from which it is sepa- rated by the river Stour ) and by the county of Cambridge ( from ...
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... portion of the town : the houses adjacent to it form a group called Church End . It is a spacious build- ing , with an embattled tower at the west end ; it has some portions in the Decorated English , and some in the Perpen- dicular ...
... portion of the town : the houses adjacent to it form a group called Church End . It is a spacious build- ing , with an embattled tower at the west end ; it has some portions in the Decorated English , and some in the Perpen- dicular ...
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... portion of this tree ( if we may Mr. Arthur Young's statement ) was Hatfield Forest , a mile or two north of t gentleman published his agricultural which an engraving of this venerable rey de Vere founded , A.D. 1135 , a Bene Hatfield ...
... portion of this tree ( if we may Mr. Arthur Young's statement ) was Hatfield Forest , a mile or two north of t gentleman published his agricultural which an engraving of this venerable rey de Vere founded , A.D. 1135 , a Bene Hatfield ...
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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.