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... known to all barbarous people . The inhabitants of the Ladrones considered fire as an invisible monster , when the Spaniards first intro- duced it among them . 16. The Persians , and other easter nations after they had once acquired ...
... known to all barbarous people . The inhabitants of the Ladrones considered fire as an invisible monster , when the Spaniards first intro- duced it among them . 16. The Persians , and other easter nations after they had once acquired ...
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... bread ; but unground , they are the favourite food of horses . 43. There are other species of grain cultivated , as rye , peas , and beans . The former makes dark but wholesome bread ; and the latter are well known B 2 AGRICULTURE .
... bread ; but unground , they are the favourite food of horses . 43. There are other species of grain cultivated , as rye , peas , and beans . The former makes dark but wholesome bread ; and the latter are well known B 2 AGRICULTURE .
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... known as delicious and wholesome food . Rice , a very nutritive grain , is much cultivated in warm climates ; and preferred to other kinds of grain for the food of man . 44. Modern husbandry has sub - divided grass into nearly a hundred ...
... known as delicious and wholesome food . Rice , a very nutritive grain , is much cultivated in warm climates ; and preferred to other kinds of grain for the food of man . 44. Modern husbandry has sub - divided grass into nearly a hundred ...
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... known value ; as guineas , half guineas , eagles , half eagles , & c .: pieces of stamped silver , as crowns , dollars , half dol- lars , & c . pieces of stamped copper ; as cents and half cents ; -all of universal worth . © 2 V. Of ...
... known value ; as guineas , half guineas , eagles , half eagles , & c .: pieces of stamped silver , as crowns , dollars , half dol- lars , & c . pieces of stamped copper ; as cents and half cents ; -all of universal worth . © 2 V. Of ...
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... known customs , or Com- mon Law , of the country . 138. No tax can be levied on the people , unless it originates in the house of Commons ; and is first approved of by that assembly . The creation of peers and transactions with foreign ...
... known customs , or Com- mon Law , of the country . 138. No tax can be levied on the people , unless it originates in the house of Commons ; and is first approved of by that assembly . The creation of peers and transactions with foreign ...
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Page 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Page 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.