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... feet high when sitting ; nearly 5 feet long ; and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing . It is very bold and rapacious , swooping down on hares , lambs , young goats , chamois , & c . , and sometimes carrying off children . It lives on ...
... feet high when sitting ; nearly 5 feet long ; and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing . It is very bold and rapacious , swooping down on hares , lambs , young goats , chamois , & c . , and sometimes carrying off children . It lives on ...
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... feet ) and Spartleton ( 1534 feet ) . LAMORICIÈRE , CHRISTOPHE LÉON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria ...
... feet ) and Spartleton ( 1534 feet ) . LAMORICIÈRE , CHRISTOPHE LÉON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria ...
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... feet ; Tintock is 2335 feet high . In the upper ward is the village of Leadhills , which is 1323 feet above sea - level , being the highest inhabited place in Scotland . This county possesses great mineral wealth . There are upwards of ...
... feet ; Tintock is 2335 feet high . In the upper ward is the village of Leadhills , which is 1323 feet above sea - level , being the highest inhabited place in Scotland . This county possesses great mineral wealth . There are upwards of ...
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... feet long , the nave 70 feet broad . In the township of Whalley , in the east of L. , is a very old church , and in the churchyard are three crosses , apparently of Saxon origin . In the vicinity are the ruins of an abbey of about the ...
... feet long , the nave 70 feet broad . In the township of Whalley , in the east of L. , is a very old church , and in the churchyard are three crosses , apparently of Saxon origin . In the vicinity are the ruins of an abbey of about the ...
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... feet wide , LANDSEER , SIR EDWIN , R.A. , an English and 150 feet deep . Of the same kind was the painter , son of John Landseer , an eminent engraver , slip of the Rossberg , in Switzerland ( see GOLDAU ) . was born in London in 1802 ...
... feet wide , LANDSEER , SIR EDWIN , R.A. , an English and 150 feet deep . Of the same kind was the painter , son of John Landseer , an eminent engraver , slip of the Rossberg , in Switzerland ( see GOLDAU ) . was born in London in 1802 ...
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Page 56 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 51 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 185 - Worthy Receivers outwardly partaking of the visible Elements in this Sacrament, do then also inwardly by Faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but .spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death...
Page 161 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 56 - tis all one ; And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so ; if not, plain Ralph : (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses) j An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid in, by birth a tailor.
Page 347 - United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England...
Page 112 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 185 - Sacrament, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.
Page 184 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual manner.
Page 159 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.