The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Količina 6H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... islands such as Monach , which is situated about seven miles to westward of the Hebrides , in the full sweep of the westerly winds of the Atlantic which there prevail . The mean January temperature of this island , which is nearly in ...
... islands such as Monach , which is situated about seven miles to westward of the Hebrides , in the full sweep of the westerly winds of the Atlantic which there prevail . The mean January temperature of this island , which is nearly in ...
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... island Pemba on the East African coast , and Amboyna . Cloves are also grown in Java , Sumatra , Réunion , Guiana , and the West India Islands . Cloves as they come into the market have a deep brown colour , a powerfully fragrant odour ...
... island Pemba on the East African coast , and Amboyna . Cloves are also grown in Java , Sumatra , Réunion , Guiana , and the West India Islands . Cloves as they come into the market have a deep brown colour , a powerfully fragrant odour ...
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... Island of Triopion , or Cape Krio , which anciently com municated with the continent by a causeway and bridge , and is now permanently connected by a narrow sandy isth- mus . By means of the causeway the channel between island and ...
... Island of Triopion , or Cape Krio , which anciently com municated with the continent by a causeway and bridge , and is now permanently connected by a narrow sandy isth- mus . By means of the causeway the channel between island and ...
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... island in one connected mass . The coal measures have probably been at one time nearly as exten- sive , but they have been almost entirely removed by denudation , the largest remaining basins being that of Castlecomer , near Kilkenny ...
... island in one connected mass . The coal measures have probably been at one time nearly as exten- sive , but they have been almost entirely removed by denudation , the largest remaining basins being that of Castlecomer , near Kilkenny ...
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... Island of Bornholm similar coal - bearing strata , probably of Liassic age , form a narrow belt along the south and south - west coast , which it is supposed may continue under the alluvial plain of the Baltic into Pomerania . The Coal ...
... Island of Bornholm similar coal - bearing strata , probably of Liassic age , form a narrow belt along the south and south - west coast , which it is supposed may continue under the alluvial plain of the Baltic into Pomerania . The Coal ...
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Stran 292 - ... 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5.
Stran 292 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 262 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Stran 220 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus, unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Stran 165 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 135 - With many parts of this preface, in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorize, I never concurred; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle and as contradictory (in appearance at least) both to other parts of the same preface and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves.
Stran 321 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Stran 136 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Stran 292 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Stran 209 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.