Library of Universal Knowledge: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last (1879) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia; A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers, Volum 7American book exchange, 1880 |
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Side 476 - That no person once delivered by habeas corpus shall be re-committed for the same offence, on penalty of £500.
Side 68 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Side 226 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Side 257 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Side 446 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Side 476 - ... confinement of the person by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. And yet, sometimes, when the state is in real danger, even this may be a necessary measure. But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great as to render this measure expedient, for it is the parliament...
Side 251 - ... are the work of men ; owe their origin and their whole existence to human will. Men did not wake on a summer morning and find them sprung up. Neither do they resemble trees, which, once planted, ' are aye growing' while men
Side 476 - To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial,• would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom : but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to gaol, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.
Side 367 - Company. His father, who died in February 1548, had been one of Henry VIII. 'e domestic financial agents; and in 1552, G. was sent to Antwerp, as king's factor there, in consequence of the mismanagement of the person previously in charge. In two years, he paid off a heavy loan, entirely restored the king's credit, and introduced a new system of finance. The principal duty of the royal agent was the negotiation of foreign loans ; and during the long period he held the office, he was successfully employed...
Side 295 - GRAZIO'SO, an Italian term in Music, meaning with graceful expression. GREASE, a term of general application to all oily or fatty matters, but generally to those having some degree of solidity, as tallow. It is more specially applied to fatty matters which are so deteriorated with dirt or other impurities as to be unfit for candle-making and other manufactures requiring some degree of purity in the material. Grease is largely employed as a lubricant for machinery, and especially for the wheels of...