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... physical came un- avoidably into play . After two years of active hostilities , a treaty of peace was signed on the 29th of August , 1842 , by which the island of Hong - kong was ceded to Great Britain , and the ports of Amoy , Foochow ...
... physical came un- avoidably into play . After two years of active hostilities , a treaty of peace was signed on the 29th of August , 1842 , by which the island of Hong - kong was ceded to Great Britain , and the ports of Amoy , Foochow ...
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Thomas Taylor Meadows. notice of political geography , and of the physical features of the country in so far as they have influenced the na- tional mind . Some portions of what would have consti- tuted this proposed work have been ...
Thomas Taylor Meadows. notice of political geography , and of the physical features of the country in so far as they have influenced the na- tional mind . Some portions of what would have consti- tuted this proposed work have been ...
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... physical sciences . And so loth was I to give up one of the most attractive of the latter , Chemistry - in which I had advanced so far as to make ( qualitative ) analyses - that I had a chest of Reagents constructed at Munich with the ...
... physical sciences . And so loth was I to give up one of the most attractive of the latter , Chemistry - in which I had advanced so far as to make ( qualitative ) analyses - that I had a chest of Reagents constructed at Munich with the ...
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... physical sciences , and those of the Engineers and Com- missariat must severally study certain of them . But apart from these members of the Executive , it must be left to professional students to make discoveries as to the state of ...
... physical sciences , and those of the Engineers and Com- missariat must severally study certain of them . But apart from these members of the Executive , it must be left to professional students to make discoveries as to the state of ...
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... physical discussions . It means the convictions , opinions or feelings the sense of human beings generally or in common . But this philosophical use has become per- verted into a nearly opposite signification , viz . the crude and vague ...
... physical discussions . It means the convictions , opinions or feelings the sense of human beings generally or in common . But this philosophical use has become per- verted into a nearly opposite signification , viz . the crude and vague ...
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Page 93 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them ; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Page 93 - And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Page 93 - But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Page 92 - He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
Page 93 - And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Page 93 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 93 - Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Page 93 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Page 94 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 93 - Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.