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... French , Italian , German , & c . have only the open , or Italian a , pronounced short or long . Among the Greeks and Romans , A was used as an arithmetical sign : by the former for 1 ; by the latter for 500 ; or with a stroke over it ...
... French , Italian , German , & c . have only the open , or Italian a , pronounced short or long . Among the Greeks and Romans , A was used as an arithmetical sign : by the former for 1 ; by the latter for 500 ; or with a stroke over it ...
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... French word , literally meaning an abbot ; but the character generally spo- ken of under the name of abbé has long ceased to be of any official nature . Before the Revolution , the term abbé designated a very numerous body of persons ...
... French word , literally meaning an abbot ; but the character generally spo- ken of under the name of abbé has long ceased to be of any official nature . Before the Revolution , the term abbé designated a very numerous body of persons ...
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... French academy of sciences , memoirs ; those of the academy of sciences at Petersburg , commentaries ; those of Leipsic , acta eruditorum ; the de- crees of the lords of session , at Edinburgh , acta sederunt , & c . - ACT , in the ...
... French academy of sciences , memoirs ; those of the academy of sciences at Petersburg , commentaries ; those of Leipsic , acta eruditorum ; the de- crees of the lords of session , at Edinburgh , acta sederunt , & c . - ACT , in the ...
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... French , and English , and signifies opposite or contrary to , as in antiscor- butics . ANTICAR'DIUM , in anatomy , that hol- low part under the breast , just against the heart , called the pit of the stomach . ANTI - CLIMAX , in ...
... French , and English , and signifies opposite or contrary to , as in antiscor- butics . ANTICAR'DIUM , in anatomy , that hol- low part under the breast , just against the heart , called the pit of the stomach . ANTI - CLIMAX , in ...
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... French . AQUATIN TA , a style of engraving , or rather etching , by which an effect is pro- duced similar to that of a drawing in Indian ink . AQUA'RIUS , in astronomy , a constella- tion , which makes the eleventh sign in the zodiac ...
... French . AQUATIN TA , a style of engraving , or rather etching , by which an effect is pro- duced similar to that of a drawing in Indian ink . AQUA'RIUS , in astronomy , a constella- tion , which makes the eleventh sign in the zodiac ...
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Page 163 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 163 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 163 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 248 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Page 404 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 275 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Page 404 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 257 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Page 315 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.