Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, المجلد 8W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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... chief interest of the wood is its remarkable adaptation to the purposes of artillery and fire - arms . It is said no wood is better adapted for mortar - beds and gun - carriages , as it sustains better than any other the violent concus ...
... chief interest of the wood is its remarkable adaptation to the purposes of artillery and fire - arms . It is said no wood is better adapted for mortar - beds and gun - carriages , as it sustains better than any other the violent concus ...
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... chief , sitting at the War Office , 10 principal purveyors , 20 purveyors , 30 deputy- purveyors , and 26 purveyors ' clerks . A purveyor- in - chief has £ 547 per annum , rising to £ 730 after long service . He ranks with a colonel in ...
... chief , sitting at the War Office , 10 principal purveyors , 20 purveyors , 30 deputy- purveyors , and 26 purveyors ' clerks . A purveyor- in - chief has £ 547 per annum , rising to £ 730 after long service . He ranks with a colonel in ...
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... chief products are wheat , rye , flax , fruits ( especially cherries and nuts ) . Some middling wine is also produced . The high pasture- lands support great numbers of cattle , sheep , and goats . The principal minerals are iron ...
... chief products are wheat , rye , flax , fruits ( especially cherries and nuts ) . Some middling wine is also produced . The high pasture- lands support great numbers of cattle , sheep , and goats . The principal minerals are iron ...
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... Chief town Pau . Basses - P . occupies the northern slopes of the Western Pyrenees , offshoots from which divide the department into a number of valleys , cach traversed by a clear mountain stream , locally known as a gave . The chief ...
... Chief town Pau . Basses - P . occupies the northern slopes of the Western Pyrenees , offshoots from which divide the department into a number of valleys , cach traversed by a clear mountain stream , locally known as a gave . The chief ...
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... chief , with a quartermaster- general , who is usually a general officer , and receives 2691 , 198. 7d . per annum , besides his other pay . At headquarters , there is a permanent quartermaster - general , responsible for all the move ...
... chief , with a quartermaster- general , who is usually a general officer , and receives 2691 , 198. 7d . per annum , besides his other pay . At headquarters , there is a permanent quartermaster - general , responsible for all the move ...
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الصفحة 129 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
الصفحة 232 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
الصفحة 190 - Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it...
الصفحة 214 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
الصفحة 297 - Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
الصفحة 298 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
الصفحة 338 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
الصفحة 298 - Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father.
الصفحة 130 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
الصفحة 52 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).