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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" Volume 11, Slice 4

G GALLUPPI, PASQUALE GABBRO GALLUS, CORNELIUS GABEL, KRISTOFFER GALLUS, GAIUS AELIUS GABELENTZ, HANS CONON VON DER GALLUS, GAIUS CESTIUS GABELLE GALLUS, GAIUS SULPICIUS GABERDINE GALOIS, EVARISTE GABES GALSTON GABII GALT, SIR ALEXANDER TILLOCH GABINIUS, AULUS GALT, JOHN GABION...

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12. m. It issues, under the name of the Bhagirathi, from an ice cave at the

During its passage through the southern spurs of the Himalayas it receives the Jahnavi from the north-west, and subsequently the Alaknanda, after which the united stream takes t...

5. book did not fail to incur were not slow in making themselves felt.

Towards the end of August the sale was prohibited; on the 1st of October the author was cited to Rome by the Inquisition. He pleaded his age, now close upon seventy years, his i...

4. v. 21) the apostle found in many of them a disheartening slackness, due

to discord and incipient legalism. His plain-speaking gave offence in some quarters (iv. 16), though it was not wholly ineffective. Otherwise, this second visit is left in the s...

2. v. 1, revised version); and that the miracle has nothing to do with

Gadara is now represented by _Umm Kais_, a group of ruins about 6 m. S.E. of the Sea of Galilee, and 1194 ft. above the sea-level. There are very fine tombs with carved sarcopha...

9. Act 1874); and in valuing land whether for rates or taxes the value of

the sporting rights is now an important and often the chief item of value in beneficial occupation of the land. Where the sporting rights are the landlord's, the rate thereon is...

1. VOLUME XI, SLICE IV

G GALLUPPI, PASQUALE GABBRO GALLUS, CORNELIUS GABEL, KRISTOFFER GALLUS, GAIUS AELIUS GABELENTZ, HANS CONON VON DER GALLUS, GAIUS CESTIUS GABELLE GALLUS, GAIUS SULPICIUS GABERDIN...

6. Book C 3065 (1881); also under the country heading below.

GAMBIA, the most northerly of the British West African dependencies. It consists of a stretch of land on both sides of the lower Gambia. The colony, with the protectorate depend...

11. c. 16 (1710), avoiding all wagers and securities relating to the then

war with France. The earliest general enactment was 16 Car. II. c. 7 (1665), prohibiting the recovery of a sum exceeding L100 lost in games or pastimes, or in betting on the sid...

8. Act 1860 as amended by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883. The

In the case of gamekeepers in Great Britain for whom the employer pays the duty on male servants, the annual licence fee is L2, but the licence extends only to lands on which th...

10. c. 38) provides that "Every person playing or betting by way of

wagering or gaming on any street, road, highway or other open and public place, or in any open place to which the public have, or are permitted to have, access, at or with any t...

3. xvi. 1-6 implies a distinction between such towns as Lystra, Derbe and

Iconium on the one hand and the Galatian [Greek: chora] with Phrygia upon the other.[1] A further visit to the latter country is mentioned, upon this view, in Acts xviii. 23. Th...

7. Act 1860 "any person, before he shall in Great Britain take, kill or

pursue, or aid or assist in any manner in the taking, killing or pursuing, by any means whatever, or use any dog, gun, net or other engine for the purpose of taking, killing or...