Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 12,Часть 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... feet diameter , where the water conti- nually boils with prodigions fury . A few yards di- ftant from it is a cavern in the fide of the bank , in which the water boils in a dreadful manner , throwing out a thick , muddy , unctuous water ...
... feet diameter , where the water conti- nually boils with prodigions fury . A few yards di- ftant from it is a cavern in the fide of the bank , in which the water boils in a dreadful manner , throwing out a thick , muddy , unctuous water ...
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... feet high . MILDEW , is faid to be a kind of thick , clammy , fweet juice , exhaled from , or falling down upon , the leaves and bloffoms of plants . By its thicknefs and clamminess it prevents perfpiration , and hinders the growth of ...
... feet high . MILDEW , is faid to be a kind of thick , clammy , fweet juice , exhaled from , or falling down upon , the leaves and bloffoms of plants . By its thicknefs and clamminess it prevents perfpiration , and hinders the growth of ...
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... feet ; fo that ships may at any time be laid afhore . Dale harbour is a ready out - let for small veffels , where they may ride in two or three fathoms at low - water . - In the reign of Queen Elizabeth , before the Spanish in- vafion ...
... feet ; fo that ships may at any time be laid afhore . Dale harbour is a ready out - let for small veffels , where they may ride in two or three fathoms at low - water . - In the reign of Queen Elizabeth , before the Spanish in- vafion ...
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... feet , ( Columella ) . MILLENIUM , " a thoufand years ; " generally employed to denote the thousand years , during which , according to an ancient tradition in the church , ground- ed on fome doubtful texts in the Apocalypfe and other ...
... feet , ( Columella ) . MILLENIUM , " a thoufand years ; " generally employed to denote the thousand years , during which , according to an ancient tradition in the church , ground- ed on fome doubtful texts in the Apocalypfe and other ...
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... feet around , armed with hairy fpines ; pinnated , digitated leaves , each leaf being of five or more long folioles , attached by their bafe to a long footftalk , and spread out above like the fingers of a hand ; and at the fides and ...
... feet around , armed with hairy fpines ; pinnated , digitated leaves , each leaf being of five or more long folioles , attached by their bafe to a long footftalk , and spread out above like the fingers of a hand ; and at the fides and ...
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Стр. 24 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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Стр. 369 - ... nor should by any art or ingenuity appropriate to himself any lands or tenements in mortmain, upon pain that the immediate lord of the fee, or, on his default for one year, the lords paramount, and, in default of all of them, the king, might enter thereon as a forfeiture.
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Стр. 367 - ... the estate to the mortgagor: in this case the land, which is so put in pledge, is by law, in case of non-payment at the time limited, for ever dead and gone from the mortgagor ; and the mortgagee's estate in the lands is then no longer conditional, but absolute. But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money, and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage x.
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