Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen7,Parte1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... Some of thefe are of a bluish grey colour , others of a fine yellow , and fome of a kind of green formed by a mixture of grey and yellow , while others are of a red colour . A great number of fmall cryftals , black fehoerls , and ...
... Some of thefe are of a bluish grey colour , others of a fine yellow , and fome of a kind of green formed by a mixture of grey and yellow , while others are of a red colour . A great number of fmall cryftals , black fehoerls , and ...
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... Some years after this conflagration , a new burn- ing gulph opened in the month of December 1682 on the fummit of the mountain , and spread its lava over the hill of Mazarra . 28. On the 24th of May 1686 , about ten in the evening , a ...
... Some years after this conflagration , a new burn- ing gulph opened in the month of December 1682 on the fummit of the mountain , and spread its lava over the hill of Mazarra . 28. On the 24th of May 1686 , about ten in the evening , a ...
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... Some birds had fallen Some from their branches , and been burnt to death . people caft wood upon the lava , and it was immediate- ly burnt . This lava continued hot , and exhaled smoke for two years . For five years after this , no fnow ...
... Some birds had fallen Some from their branches , and been burnt to death . people caft wood upon the lava , and it was immediate- ly burnt . This lava continued hot , and exhaled smoke for two years . For five years after this , no fnow ...
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... Some other circumftances may be taken notice of in the coating of ice on the outfide of the throat of the funnel . Neither the cover of the outer veffel , nor the aperture in its bottom which the stem of the funnel paffed through , were ...
... Some other circumftances may be taken notice of in the coating of ice on the outfide of the throat of the funnel . Neither the cover of the outer veffel , nor the aperture in its bottom which the stem of the funnel paffed through , were ...
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... some errors will arife from the air being more compreffed in one than the other . This precaution , indeed , does not entirely take away the error , as the level of the water in M is not the fame after the airs are mixed that it was ...
... some errors will arife from the air being more compreffed in one than the other . This precaution , indeed , does not entirely take away the error , as the level of the water in M is not the fame after the airs are mixed that it was ...
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Página 186 - A base, or qualified fee, is such a one as hath a qualification subjoined thereto, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end. As, in the case of a grant to A. and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale; in this instance, whenever the heirs of A. cease to be tenants of that manor, the grant is entirely defeated. So, when Henry VI. granted to John Talbot, lord of the manor of Kingston-Lisle in Berks...
Página 343 - ... if he were liable to return the goods which he had fairly bought, provided any of the prior vendors had committed a treason or felony. Yet if they be collusively and not bond fide parted with, merely to defraud the crown, the law, and particularly the statute 13 Eliz. c. 5, will reach them...
Página 242 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers.
Página 342 - The natural justice of forfeiture or confiscation of property, for treason, is founded in this consideration: that he who hath thus violated the fundamental principles of government, and broken his part of the original contract between king and people, hath abandoned his connexions with society: and hath no longer any right to those advantages, which before belonged to him purely as a member of the community: among which social advantages the right of transferring or transmitting property to others...
Página 186 - This estate is a fee, because by possibility, it may endure for ever in a man and his heirs ; yet as that duration depends upon the concurrence of collateral circumstances which qualify and debase the purity of the donation, it is therefore a qualified or base fee.
Página 198 - So that upon the whole the only adequate definition of felony seems to be that which is before laid down; viz. an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands, or goods, or both, at the common law; and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded, according to the degree of guilt.
Página 33 - He was also an excellent classical scholar, and could repeat the jEneid of Virgil from the beginning to the end, and indicate the first and last line of every page of the edition he used.
Página 342 - ... vested in the crown; and also the profits of all lands and tenements, which he had in his own right for life or years, so long...
Página 176 - On the 15th of August, 1643, as I stood at my window, I was surprised with a most wonderful, delectable vision. The sea that washes the Sicilian shore swelled up, and became, for ten miles in length, like a chain of dark mountains ; while the waters near our Calabrian coast grew quite smooth, and in an instant appeared as one clear polished mirror, reclining against the aforesaid ridge.
Página 185 - This is likewise always the case of a parson of a church, who hath only an estate therein for the term of his life ; and the inheritance remains in abeyance.