The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 11

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Page 70 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 283 - involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power in parts not in action, and even when supported ; with a propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and to pass from a walking to a running pace ; the senses and intellect being uninjured.
Page 330 - The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to examine "the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit
Page 70 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.
Page 377 - Office, to any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter...
Page 39 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 128 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Page 331 - ... employment for himself or for any other person for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election; 2.
Page 328 - ... the bill to receive the concurrence of the commons. If the commons disagree to the amendments, a conference usually follows between members deputed from each house ; who for the most part settle and adjust the difference : but if both houses remain inflexible the bill is dropped. If the commons agree to the amendments, the bill is sent back to the lords by one of the members with a message to acquaint them therewith. The same forms are observed, mutatis mutandis, when the bill begins in the house...
Page 332 - ... that upon the trial of any peer or peeress either for treason or misprision all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament...

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