CHAMBER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE1901 |
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... common to require any description . Covered spring mattresses filled with wire springs , held in position by chair - web , are now a good deal used . Some years ago a woven wire - spring mattress was in- vented in America , and of it ...
... common to require any description . Covered spring mattresses filled with wire springs , held in position by chair - web , are now a good deal used . Some years ago a woven wire - spring mattress was in- vented in America , and of it ...
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... Common Great Bedstraw ( Galium elatum ) ; B , Yellow Bedstraw ( Galium rerum ) . ( a , flower ; b , fruit . ) the tropics . About eleven species are found in Britain , some of them very common weeds . Amongst these is the Ladies ...
... Common Great Bedstraw ( Galium elatum ) ; B , Yellow Bedstraw ( Galium rerum ) . ( a , flower ; b , fruit . ) the tropics . About eleven species are found in Britain , some of them very common weeds . Amongst these is the Ladies ...
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... common hive- bee . Attempts have been made in Britain to rear varieties which would be able to utilise the abundant red clover , inaccessible to the common bee . When the bee proceeds to rob a flower of its nectar , the tongue , folded ...
... common hive- bee . Attempts have been made in Britain to rear varieties which would be able to utilise the abundant red clover , inaccessible to the common bee . When the bee proceeds to rob a flower of its nectar , the tongue , folded ...
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... common sand - wasp , carnivorous in its diet , and bringing its insect or spider prey to its larvæ . From these ... common and widely - distributed genus , the females of which closely resemble the common honey - bee . The males differ ...
... common sand - wasp , carnivorous in its diet , and bringing its insect or spider prey to its larvæ . From these ... common and widely - distributed genus , the females of which closely resemble the common honey - bee . The males differ ...
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... Common Beech : a , flower ; b , fruit . hard and solid , but brittle ; and when exposed to the open air , very liable to rot and to be worm- eaten . It is therefore not adapted to the purposes of the house - carpenter ; but when kept ...
... Common Beech : a , flower ; b , fruit . hard and solid , but brittle ; and when exposed to the open air , very liable to rot and to be worm- eaten . It is therefore not adapted to the purposes of the house - carpenter ; but when kept ...
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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.