The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1839 |
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... Persons employed in 2 Total Population . ISLANDS . Area in Square Miles . Males . Females . Popula- tion to the Births , Square Agriculture . Manufac- Com- Mile . Marri- ages . Deaths . tures . merce . Corfu 227 32,909 27,981 264 15,077 ...
... Persons employed in 2 Total Population . ISLANDS . Area in Square Miles . Males . Females . Popula- tion to the Births , Square Agriculture . Manufac- Com- Mile . Marri- ages . Deaths . tures . merce . Corfu 227 32,909 27,981 264 15,077 ...
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... person founding a college ( now Christ Church ) , the priory of St. should be lodged within the borough without the ... persons . ( Gough's 5 and 6 William IV . , cap . 76 , the council of the borough Camden's Britannia ; Carlisle's ...
... person founding a college ( now Christ Church ) , the priory of St. should be lodged within the borough without the ... persons . ( Gough's 5 and 6 William IV . , cap . 76 , the council of the borough Camden's Britannia ; Carlisle's ...
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... persons , forming 1,385,066 families , inhabiting 1,249,816 houses . In the same year the number of agricultural ... persons committed for trial or bailed , of whom 7769 were charged with offences against the person ; 671 with offences ...
... persons , forming 1,385,066 families , inhabiting 1,249,816 houses . In the same year the number of agricultural ... persons committed for trial or bailed , of whom 7769 were charged with offences against the person ; 671 with offences ...
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... persons intestate , or to disputes originating in such matters . These orations are valuable for the insight which ... person as the prophet Amos . The latter tradition is evidently wrong ; since the name of the prophet is Diny , while ...
... persons intestate , or to disputes originating in such matters . These orations are valuable for the insight which ... person as the prophet Amos . The latter tradition is evidently wrong ; since the name of the prophet is Diny , while ...
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... persons send their children to England to be edu- cated . According to an official Report presented to the British Parliament in 1834 , the total number of children in the schools was 2019 ; of whom 133 were whites , 1365 were free persons ...
... persons send their children to England to be edu- cated . According to an official Report presented to the British Parliament in 1834 , the total number of children in the schools was 2019 ; of whom 133 were whites , 1365 were free persons ...
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Page 102 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 162 - Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins : and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 250 - To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
Page 281 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Page 159 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, upon the true faith of a Christian, that I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence which I may possess by virtue of the office of to injure or weaken the Protestant church as it is by law established in England, or to disturb the said church, or the bishops and clergy of the said church, in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such church, or the said bishops and clergy, are or may...
Page 134 - He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.
Page 160 - Act, the person accused shall be allowed to make his full answer and defence, and to have all witnesses examined and cross-examined by counsel or attorney.
Page 77 - Justiciars of co-ordinate authority, one on the north and the other on the south of the...
Page 104 - Shall I, who even in the morning of my days sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the valley and not the mountain, shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame...
Page 228 - Length seven inches from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The Bill two inches from the commissure to the point, and the tail twenty-seven lines.