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... known facts , and so complete in all its parts . The body of our earth presents a surface principally covered with a mass of aqueous fluid , little more than one - fourth being encrusted with solid materials . But the phenomena of the ...
... known facts , and so complete in all its parts . The body of our earth presents a surface principally covered with a mass of aqueous fluid , little more than one - fourth being encrusted with solid materials . But the phenomena of the ...
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... known to the public . Details are given of the case of Bates , in the Exchequer ; and of what was then considered as the tergiversation of Coke , who is described as " a man of strong , though narrow intellect- confessedly , the ...
... known to the public . Details are given of the case of Bates , in the Exchequer ; and of what was then considered as the tergiversation of Coke , who is described as " a man of strong , though narrow intellect- confessedly , the ...
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... known ; but , as a specimen of the minuteness of its severity * It may readily be conceived , that any person obnoxious to the Court , would be liable to arrest under this description . and injustice on some occasions , the following ...
... known ; but , as a specimen of the minuteness of its severity * It may readily be conceived , that any person obnoxious to the Court , would be liable to arrest under this description . and injustice on some occasions , the following ...
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... known , and sometimes proved , to be disposed of in great part among the members of both houses . " Burnet's well known account of Sir John Trevor , which is quoted in a note , with some other instan- ces , shows that the venality of ...
... known , and sometimes proved , to be disposed of in great part among the members of both houses . " Burnet's well known account of Sir John Trevor , which is quoted in a note , with some other instan- ces , shows that the venality of ...
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... known to the experi- enced navigators of the eastern seas , struck the ship , and render- ed her so leaky , that the captain considered it advisable to make for the nearest port ; the leak , however , increasing rapidly , and finding ...
... known to the experi- enced navigators of the eastern seas , struck the ship , and render- ed her so leaky , that the captain considered it advisable to make for the nearest port ; the leak , however , increasing rapidly , and finding ...
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Page 324 - Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands : so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Page 324 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 162 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them ; and attended by the dignitaries of their court and the principal nobility of Castile...
Page 431 - There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes Adams to a friend, "a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and friends, sacrificing his ease and hazarding all in the cause of his country. His views are noble and disinterested. He declared, when he accepted the mighty trust, that he would lay before us an exact account of his expenses and not accept a shilling of pay.
Page 161 - As he drew near the place, many of the more youthful courtiers, and hidalgos of gallant bearing, together with a vast concourse of the populace, came forth to meet and welcome him. His entrance into this noble city has been compared to one of those triumphs which the Romans were accustomed to decree to conquerors.
Page 109 - Tis in the gentle moonlight ; 'Tis floating midst Day's setting glories ; Night, Wrapped in her sable robe, with silent step Comes to our bed, and breathes it in our ears : Night, and the dawn, bright day, and thoughtful eve, All time, all bounds, the limitless expanse, As one vast mystic instrument, are touched By an unseen, living Hand, and conscious chords Quiver with joy in this great jubilee.
Page 170 - ... reveries of past ages, the indications of an unknown world ; as soothsayers were said to read predictions in the stars, and to foretell events from the visions of the night. " His soul," observes a Spanish writer, " was superior to the age in which he lived.
Page 52 - Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic.
Page 88 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 161 - ... the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. There was a sublimity in this event that mingled a solemn feeling with the public joy. It was looked upon as a vast and signal dispensation of Providence, in reward for the piety of the monarchs ; and the majestic and venerable appearance of the discoverer, so different from the youth and buoyancy generally expected from roving enterprise, seemed in harmony with the grandeur and dignity of his achievement.