Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 3 Ephraim Chambers Volledige weergave - 1870 |
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Pagina 206 - Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting, and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted, and published, books and other writings, without the consent of the authors or proprietors of such books and writings, to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families...
Pagina 266 - ... that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms.
Pagina 153 - ... that we cannot also conceive it as a relative part of a still greater whole; nor an absolute part, that is, a part so small that we cannot also conceive it as a relative whole, divisible into smaller parts. On the other hand, we cannot positively represent, or...
Pagina 288 - And for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity...
Pagina 430 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Pagina 154 - Consciousness is, that it is only possible in the form of a relation. There must be a Subject, or person conscious, and an Object, or thing of which he is conscious. There can be no consciousness without the union of these two factors ; and, in that union, each exists only as it is related to the other. The subject is a subject, only in so far as it is conscious of an object : the object is an object, only in so far as it is apprehended by a subject : and the destruction of either is the destruction...
Pagina 137 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Pagina 132 - COMMON, or right of common, appears from its very definition to be an incorporeal hereditament : being a profit which a man hath in the land of another ; as to feed his beasts, to catch fish, to dig turf, to cut wood, or the like a.
Pagina 150 - And be it enacted]* that all actions and proceedings which before the passing of this Act might have been brought in any of Her Majesty's superior courts of record where the plaintiff dwells more than twenty miles from the defendant [or where the cause of action did not arise wholly or in some material point within the jurisdiction of the court within which the defendant dwells or carries on his business at the time of the action brought...
Pagina 266 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy...