The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Volume 2Hugh Chisholm Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1910 This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style. |
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... given about the end of the 18th century as based on some experiments , but with a footnote stating that little reliance could be placed on it . The statement without the qualifying note was copied from book to book , and at last ...
... given about the end of the 18th century as based on some experiments , but with a footnote stating that little reliance could be placed on it . The statement without the qualifying note was copied from book to book , and at last ...
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... given in marriage . Naturally angels are most prominent in the Apocalypse . The New Testa- ment takes little interest in the idea of the angelic hierarchy , but there are traces of the doctrine . The distinction of good and bad angels ...
... given in marriage . Naturally angels are most prominent in the Apocalypse . The New Testa- ment takes little interest in the idea of the angelic hierarchy , but there are traces of the doctrine . The distinction of good and bad angels ...
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... given by F. S. Beudant in 1832. The crystals from Anglesey , which were formerly found abundantly on a matrix of dull limonite , are small in size and simple in form , being usually bounded by four faces of a prism and four faces of a ...
... given by F. S. Beudant in 1832. The crystals from Anglesey , which were formerly found abundantly on a matrix of dull limonite , are small in size and simple in form , being usually bounded by four faces of a prism and four faces of a ...
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... given rise to a theory that it travels overland as well as by water . The best baits for eels are worms and small ... given any law . The bait must be on or near the bottom . There are , of course , many other fish which come to the ...
... given rise to a theory that it travels overland as well as by water . The best baits for eels are worms and small ... given any law . The bait must be on or near the bottom . There are , of course , many other fish which come to the ...
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... given to Zanzibar copal ( q.v. ) . a general philosophy of nature . Not only human beings. ANIMISM ( from animus , or anima , mind or soul ) , according to the definition of Dr E. B. Tylor , the doctrine of spiritual beings , including ...
... given to Zanzibar copal ( q.v. ) . a general philosophy of nature . Not only human beings. ANIMISM ( from animus , or anima , mind or soul ) , according to the definition of Dr E. B. Tylor , the doctrine of spiritual beings , including ...
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Page 107 - The skin presents an eruption of spots, which are usually somewhat coppery, but sometimes of a rose-red tint ; while on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands...
Page 224 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly [exchanged], and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 119 - And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Page 175 - And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine...
Page 110 - The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce man upon the surface (four globe. MAN IS THE END TOWARDS WHICH ALL THE ANIMAL CREATION HAS TENDED FROM THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST...
Page 21 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 172 - But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Page 213 - Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se of the Constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and those of any State or States, or as to the limits inter ae of the Constitutional powers of any two or more States, unless the High Court shall certify that the question is one which ought to be determined by Her Majesty in Council.
Page 18 - The Church of England, in places where there is no church established by law, is in the same situation with any other religious body, in no better but in no worse position, and the members may adopt, as the members of any other communion may adopt, rules for enforcing discipline within their body which will be binding on those who expressly or by implication have assented to them.
Page 213 - Court upon any question howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se of the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and those of any province or provinces, or as to the limits inter se...