Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, 第 8 巻W. & R. Chambers, 1891 |
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... persons lost their lives in the Peasant War . Flourishing and popu lous districts were desolated . The lot of the defeated insurgents became harder than ever , and many burdens of the peasantry originated at this period . The cause of ...
... persons lost their lives in the Peasant War . Flourishing and popu lous districts were desolated . The lot of the defeated insurgents became harder than ever , and many burdens of the peasantry originated at this period . The cause of ...
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... person had children . Men are frequently indicated by small squares , women by circles or lozenges . All persons of the same generation are to be kept in the same horizontal fine ; and the main line of descent is , wherever possible ...
... person had children . Men are frequently indicated by small squares , women by circles or lozenges . All persons of the same generation are to be kept in the same horizontal fine ; and the main line of descent is , wherever possible ...
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... pressing to death in this horrible manner was the regular and lawful mode of punishing persons who stood mute on their arraignment for felony . Latterly a practice 10 PEIPUS prevailed , which had no sanction from the.
... pressing to death in this horrible manner was the regular and lawful mode of punishing persons who stood mute on their arraignment for felony . Latterly a practice 10 PEIPUS prevailed , which had no sanction from the.
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... person is said to have been pressed to death at the Cambridge assizes , the tying of his thumbs having been first tried without effect . A statute of 1772 virtually abolished the peine forte et dure , by enacting that any person who ...
... person is said to have been pressed to death at the Cambridge assizes , the tying of his thumbs having been first tried without effect . A statute of 1772 virtually abolished the peine forte et dure , by enacting that any person who ...
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... persons of scandalous life from the spiritual fellowship of the Christian community ( see EXCOMMUNICA- TION ) ; and , without attempting to fix the date , it may be stated as certain , from the authority of Tertullian and other writers ...
... persons of scandalous life from the spiritual fellowship of the Christian community ( see EXCOMMUNICA- TION ) ; and , without attempting to fix the date , it may be stated as certain , from the authority of Tertullian and other writers ...
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62 ページ - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
73 ページ - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
94 ページ - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...
112 ページ - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
191 ページ - A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
172 ページ - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
2 ページ - A small proprietor, however, who knows every part of his little territory, who views it with all the affection which property, especially small property, naturally inspires, and who upon that account takes pleasure not only in cultivating but in adorning it, is generally of all improvers the most industrious, the most intelligent, and the most successful...
283 ページ - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
256 ページ - Powhatan: then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
74 ページ - It was found necessary for her to learn every thing again. She even acquired, by new efforts, the art of spelling, reading, writing, and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around, like a being for the first time brought into the world. In these exercises she made considerable proficiency. But after a few months another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from it, she found herself restored to the state she was in before the first paroxysm ; but was wholly...