CHAMBER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE1901 |
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... BELL BENEDICTINES ... BENGAL , BOMBAY ...... . BERKELEY . ......... Professor J. ARTHUR THOMSON . Sir GEORGE GROVE . THOMAS M'KNIGHT . Rev. J. RAVEN , D.D. Rev. E. G. CODY , O.S.B. A. MACDONALD , of the Englishman . Professor A CAMPBELL ...
... BELL BENEDICTINES ... BENGAL , BOMBAY ...... . BERKELEY . ......... Professor J. ARTHUR THOMSON . Sir GEORGE GROVE . THOMAS M'KNIGHT . Rev. J. RAVEN , D.D. Rev. E. G. CODY , O.S.B. A. MACDONALD , of the Englishman . Professor A CAMPBELL ...
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... bell - jar held with its closed end against a window was not to endeavour to get through the pane , but out at the open end . It is obvious further , from what has been already said of the habits of bees , that many features in their ...
... bell - jar held with its closed end against a window was not to endeavour to get through the pane , but out at the open end . It is obvious further , from what has been already said of the habits of bees , that many features in their ...
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... bell is hung - a bell - tower or turret . The belfry usually forms part of a church , but is sometimes detached from it - as at Evesham , Berkeley , and Beccles , in England , and 48 BELGE still more frequently in Italy ( see CAMPANILE.
... bell is hung - a bell - tower or turret . The belfry usually forms part of a church , but is sometimes detached from it - as at Evesham , Berkeley , and Beccles , in England , and 48 BELGE still more frequently in Italy ( see CAMPANILE.
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... bells to call the burghers together for council or for action . Thus detached belfries arose in the heart of towns , and were regarded as important symbols of their freedom . At a later date , they often became part of the maison de ...
... bells to call the burghers together for council or for action . Thus detached belfries arose in the heart of towns , and were regarded as important symbols of their freedom . At a later date , they often became part of the maison de ...
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... bells 5th June 1871 . Amongst her works are Récits to call the burghers together for council or for Turco - Asiatiques ( 1856 ) ; Asie Mineure ( 1858 ) ; action . Thus detached belfries arose in the heart | Histoire de la Maison de ...
... bells 5th June 1871 . Amongst her works are Récits to call the burghers together for council or for Turco - Asiatiques ( 1856 ) ; Asie Mineure ( 1858 ) ; action . Thus detached belfries arose in the heart | Histoire de la Maison de ...
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Page 180 - But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband (but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband) ; and that the husband leave not his wife.
Page 29 - Can the Immortality of the Soul be Proved by the Light of Nature ?'...! chose to adopt the negative.
Page 140 - ... shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 360 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 113 - I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 138 - The drawer of a bill and any indorser may insert thereon the name of a person to whom the holder may resort in case of need, that is to say, in case the bill is dishonored by nonacceptance or non.payment. Such person is called the referee in case of need.
Page 133 - England by any other than a Subject of His Majesty, or to any Person marrying a Second Time, whose Husband or Wife shall have been continually absent from such Person for the Space of Seven Years then last past, and shall not have been known by such Person to be living within that Time...
Page 20 - The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many bees, all instinctively standing at the same relative distance from each other, all trying to sweep equal spheres, and then building up, or leaving ungnawed, the planes of intersection between these spheres.
Page 8 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 343 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.