Chambers's Encyclopædia: GOO to LABW. & R. Chambers, 1886 |
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Page 37 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 99 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 66 - Florence), and a protracted discussion took place, the chief points of which were the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 93 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Page 219 - HARMO'NIC PROPORTION. Three numbers are said to be in harmonic proportion when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the second and third, otherwise harmonic proportion is that which subsists between the reciprocals of numbers which are in arithmetical proportion.
Page 239 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — "for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 15 - We have not received," saith Irenaeus, " the knowledge of the way of our salvation by any others than those by whom the gospel has been brought to us. Which gospel they first preached, and afterwards, by the will of God, committed to writing, that it might be for time to come the foundation and pillar of our faith.
Page 66 - Ireland; and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the said united kingdom and its dependencies ; and also the ensigns, armorial flags, and banners thereof, shall be such as his Majesty, by his royal proclamation under the great seal of the united kingdom, shall be pleased to appoint.
Page 15 - Mark, also the disciple and interpreter of Peter, delivered to us in writing the things that had been preached by Peter; and Luke, the companion of Paul, put down in a book the gospel preached by him.
Page 173 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London. He was the author of various articles in the scientific journals of the day, and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.