A Popular and Complete English Dictionary,: I-ZWilliam Collins, South Frederick St., Glasgow: Paternoster Row, London.., 1848 - 761 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
acid action affected ancient anew animal bird body botany called cause church colour consisting containing contempt cover denotes discourse disease erroneously evil excess excite Exogens express facio fåll får fåt-mè Fåte favour female fish flowers force fossil fowl Gasteropodous genus of plants give hence heraldry herbaceous insects instrument kind land language Little manner means measure medicine ment met-pine metal mind mineral Mollusks moral motion môve når natural order ness nôr nôt-tube one's pain particular pass perform person Pertaining piece pin-nò polus possession præ pret produced quadruped quantity render resembling sail salt Scripture sense ship side skin soft sound species stone substance surface tåb taining thing tion tree tüb tural utter verse vessel violence word writing wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 1017 - A presentment, properly speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation *, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king...
Página 1094 - Religion, in a comprehensive sense, includes, he says, a belief in the being and perfections of God — in the revelation of His will to man — in man's obligation to obey His commands — in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God; and also true godliness or piety of life, with the practise of all moral duties. 2. His second definition is, that religion...
Página 1077 - A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized)', with condition to do some particular act; as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like.
Página 769 - Earth's surface from another part; usually that portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all of its natural characteristics.
Página 884 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Página 816 - ... and directed to any person, corporation or inferior court, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, -which appertains to their office and duty, and which the court has previously determined, or at least supposes, to be consonant to right and justice.
Página 947 - The feast of the Passover was instituted by the Jews " to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, PASSED OVER the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the PASCHAL LAMB.
Página 785 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit ; without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Página 1115 - An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him.
Página 802 - I'm an object of compassion, because I know nothing about love. Well, what does the book say about it ? ' He found the word, and ran his finger down the paragraphs of explanation which followed. ' Seven meanings to Love,' he remarked. ' First : An affection of the mind excited by beauty and worth of any kind, or by the qualities of an object which communicate pleasure. Second : Courtship. Third : Patriotism, as the love of country. Fourth : Benevolence. Fifth : The object beloved. Sixth : A word...