Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume VI, Humber to Malta

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1901
 

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Sivu 188 - Status of Aliens in the United Kingdom. 2. Heal and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the saaie manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject...
Sivu 345 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Sivu 87 - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Sivu 344 - Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it...
Sivu 87 - Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country or of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.
Sivu 131 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Sivu 318 - ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life.
Sivu 263 - I have accepted of a pension as a reward which has been thought due to my literary merit; and now that I have this pension, I am the same man in every respect that I have ever been; I retain the same principles.
Sivu 9 - They were distinguished from the rest of the human species by their broad shoulders, flat noses, and small black eyes, deeply buried in the head ; and as they were almost destitute of beards, they never enjoyed, either the manly graces of youth, or the venerable aspect of age...
Sivu 299 - Sodbury, when a young country-woman came to seek advice. The subject of small-pox being mentioned in her presence, she observed : " I cannot take that disease, for I have had cow-pox.

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