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Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition Banks To Bassoon Volume

[v.03 p.0333] BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881), British miscellaneous writer, was born at Birmingham on the 2nd of March 1821. After a brief experience in a variety of trades, he became at the age of seventeen a contributor to various newspapers, and subsequently a playwrigh...

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1. Chapter 1

[v.03 p.0333] BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881), British miscellaneous writer, was born at Birmingham on the 2nd of March 1821. After a brief experience in a variety of trades,...

2. Chapter 2

for a customer within the meaning of sec. 82 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, notwithstanding that he credits his customer's account with the amount of the cheque before recei...

3. Chapter 3

of both these classes from its operation. With regard to the orders for payment, inasmuch as the same section which brings them within the crossed cheques sections expressly pro...

4. Chapter 4

without identifying him with Jesus of Nazareth. The apostolic age supplied this identification, and the normal use during it seems to have been "into Christ Jesus," or "in the n...

5. Chapter 5

been baptized into John's baptism, _i.e._ into the name of him that should follow John, but had not even heard of the Holy Spirit, are at Paul's instance re-baptized into the na...

6. Chapter 6

lecture twice in the day to so numerous an audience that the church cannot contain them," and adds, "the Anabaptists flock to the place and give me much trouble." It would seem...

7. Chapter 7

month Gorpiaeus, but this statement can hardly be correct. It was in general use in the church till its canonicity was rejected by the Protestant churches and accepted by the Ro...

8. Chapter 8

are justified." The source of the error can be discovered by retranslation. The Syriac in these passages is a stock rendering of [Greek: dikaiousthai], and this in turn of [Hebr...

9. Chapter 9

_Ashtaroth_, which, as we shall see, was an important city of Bashan). The territory [v.03 p.0465] was allotted on the partition of the conquered land to the eastern division of...

10. Chapter 10

Constantinople. Both these buildings have entirely passed away, but we have an excellent example of an oriental basilica of the same date still standing in the church of the Nat...