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... father of our celestial science , avows himself , in his famous work , as only the champion of Pythagoras , whose system he enforces and illustrates . Even the most modish schemes of the day on the origin of things , which captivate as ...
... father of our celestial science , avows himself , in his famous work , as only the champion of Pythagoras , whose system he enforces and illustrates . Even the most modish schemes of the day on the origin of things , which captivate as ...
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... father , as stated in the above account , was wounded at Culloden in the thigh , but was able to crawl on all- fours , after the battle , eighteen miles , to a barn belonging to a mem- ber of the Grant family . He there remained in ...
... father , as stated in the above account , was wounded at Culloden in the thigh , but was able to crawl on all- fours , after the battle , eighteen miles , to a barn belonging to a mem- ber of the Grant family . He there remained in ...
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... father ! " - With these antecedents , it is needless to add that Colonel G. Mac- donell was a warm admirer of the Stuarts , and not unnaturally ex- tended his sympathy and adhesion to the kindred cause of legitimacy in France ; and the ...
... father ! " - With these antecedents , it is needless to add that Colonel G. Mac- donell was a warm admirer of the Stuarts , and not unnaturally ex- tended his sympathy and adhesion to the kindred cause of legitimacy in France ; and the ...
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... father , Captain Macdonell , was stationed . He was the second son of Captain Macdonell ( who had been one of the body - guard of Prince Charles ) , by his wife , Miss Leslie of Fetternear , Aberdeenshire . George was rated on the navy ...
... father , Captain Macdonell , was stationed . He was the second son of Captain Macdonell ( who had been one of the body - guard of Prince Charles ) , by his wife , Miss Leslie of Fetternear , Aberdeenshire . George was rated on the navy ...
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... father , the geographical conditions of the route , and chance circumstances . And this is the more confirmed when we consider that when once the hunter started on his career , he I would have determined their avocation also for his ...
... father , the geographical conditions of the route , and chance circumstances . And this is the more confirmed when we consider that when once the hunter started on his career , he I would have determined their avocation also for his ...
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Page 380 - Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth ; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the t%vilight of fable.
Page 385 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves, and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 153 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 5 - A great multitude of people are continually talking of the Law of Nature; and then they go on giving you their sentiments about what is right and what is wrong; and these sentiments, you are to understand, are so many chapters and sections of the Law of Nature.
Page 334 - Memmi. arma antiqua manus ungues dentesque fuerunt et lapides et item silvarum fragmina rami, et flamma atque ignes, postquam sunt cognita primum. 1285 posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta. et prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus, quo facilis magis est natura et copia maior.
Page 353 - Jus Gentium was, in fact, the sum of the common ingredients in the customs of the old Italian tribes, for they were all the nations whom the Romans had the means of observing, and who sent successive swarms of immigrants to Roman soil. Whenever a particular usage was seen to be practised by a large number of separate races in common, it was set down as part of the Law common to all Nations, or Jus Gentium.
Page 176 - In the beginning God created heaven and earth. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God moved over the waters.
Page 369 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.