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... , will , it is hoped , if well improved , serve the young student as a CLEW that may afterwards guide him through all the labyrinths of art and science , ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THE two first editions PREFACE . ix.
... , will , it is hoped , if well improved , serve the young student as a CLEW that may afterwards guide him through all the labyrinths of art and science , ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THE two first editions PREFACE . ix.
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... says he was able , by the mere effort of his natural memory , to repeat two thousand words upon once hearing them , each in its order , though they had no connexion with each other . He afterwards men- tions 16 POCKET CYCLOPEDIA .
... says he was able , by the mere effort of his natural memory , to repeat two thousand words upon once hearing them , each in its order , though they had no connexion with each other . He afterwards men- tions 16 POCKET CYCLOPEDIA .
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... afterwards men- tions a friend of his , Portius Latro , who retained in his memory all the declamations he had ever spoken , and never had his memory fail him in a single word . Cyneas , ambassador to the Romans for king Pyrrhus , had ...
... afterwards men- tions a friend of his , Portius Latro , who retained in his memory all the declamations he had ever spoken , and never had his memory fail him in a single word . Cyneas , ambassador to the Romans for king Pyrrhus , had ...
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... afterwards left to the wind and sun ; by their action , the surface of the briny water soon becomes covered over with a slight crust , which still increases till all the salt is crystallized and separated from the mother water , as it ...
... afterwards left to the wind and sun ; by their action , the surface of the briny water soon becomes covered over with a slight crust , which still increases till all the salt is crystallized and separated from the mother water , as it ...
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... Afterwards , in order that the crystallization may not be obstructed by any agitation , they shut up the vent- holes and door , and let the fire go out , and in twelve hours time the crystallized salt falls to the bottom and grows hard ...
... Afterwards , in order that the crystallization may not be obstructed by any agitation , they shut up the vent- holes and door , and let the fire go out , and in twelve hours time the crystallized salt falls to the bottom and grows hard ...
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Page 331 - This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion ; so, when he created man, and endued him with...
Page 327 - And this is what we mean by the original contract of society; which though perhaps in no instance it has ever been formally expressed at the first institution of a state; yet in nature and reason must always be understood and implied, in the very act of associating together...
Page 477 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 330 - ... could we be so certain of finding the three great qualities of government so well and so happily united. If the supreme power were lodged in any one of the three branches separately, we must be exposed to the inconveniences of either absolute monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, and so want two of the three principal ingredients of good polity, either virtue, wisdom, or power.
Page 332 - When I call these parts of our law leges non scriptce, 1 would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former ages to the present solely by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly overspread the whole western world...
Page 332 - The lex non scripta, or unwritten law, includes not only general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; but also the particular customs of certain parts of the kingdom ; and likewise those particular laws that are, by custom, observed only in certain courts and jurisdictions.
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