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it did originally derive its authority by a 

 grant from the king. 



A corporation may be dissolved; for it 

 is created upon a trust, and if it be broken, 

 it is forfeited. No person shall bear office 

 in any corporation but such as have re- 

 ceived the sacrament, taken oaths, &c. and 

 none are to execute in a corporation for 

 more than a year. A corporation cannbt 

 sue or appear in person, but by an attor- 

 ney. 



Ordinances made by corporations, to be 

 observed on pain of imprisonment, forfei- 

 ture of goods, &c. are contrary to Magna 

 Charta. Actions arising in any corpora- 

 tion may be tried in the corporation 

 courts ; but if they try actions not within 

 their jurisdictions, and encroach upon the 

 common law, they are liable to be punish- 

 ed for it. The corporation of the city of 

 London is to answer for all particular mis- 

 demeanors committed in any of the courts 

 of justice within the city, and for all other 

 general misdemeanors committed in the 

 city. 



CORPUSCULAR p/ulosophy, that way 

 of philosophising, which endeavours to ex- 

 plain things, and to account for the pheno- 

 mena of nature by the motion, figure, rest, 

 position, &o. of the corpuscles, or the mi- 

 nute particles of matter. 



Boyle reduces the principles of the cor- 

 puscular philosophy to the four following 

 heads. 



1. That there is but one universal kind 

 of matter, which is an extended, impene- 

 trable, and divisible substance, common 

 to all bodies, and capable of all forms. On 

 this head, Newton remarks thus : " All 

 things considered, it appears probable to 

 me, that God in the beginning created 

 matter in solid, hard, impenetrable, move- 

 able particles ; of such sizes and figures, 

 and with such other properties, as most 

 conduced to the end for which he formed 

 them ; and that these primitive particles, 

 being solids, are incomparably harder than 

 any of the sensible porous bodies com- 

 pounded of them ; even so hard as never 

 to wear or break in pieces ; no other pow- 

 er being able to divide what God made 

 one in the first creation. While these 

 corpuscles remain entire, they may com- 

 pose bodies of one and the same nature 

 and texture in aUages; but should they 

 wear away, or break in pieces, the nature 

 of things depending on them would be 

 changed ; water and earth, composed of 

 old worn particles, of fragments of parti- 

 cles, would not be of the same nature and 

 texture now, with water and earth com- 

 posed of entire particles at the beginning. 



And therefore, that nature may be lasting, 

 the changes of corporeal things are to be 

 placed only in the various separations, and 

 new associations of these permanent cor- 

 puscles." 



2. That this matter, in order to form 

 the vast variety of natural bodies must 

 have motion in some or all its assignable 

 parts ; and that this motion was given to 

 matter by God, the creator of all things 4 

 and has all manner of directions and ten- 

 dencies. " These corpuscles, says New- 

 ton, have not only a vis inertiae, accompa- 

 nied with such passive laws of motion as 

 naturally result from that force ; but also 

 are moved by certain active principles : 

 such as that of gravity, and that which 

 causes fermentation, and the cohesion of 

 bodies." 



3. That matter must also be actually di- 

 vided into parts : and each of these primi- 

 tive particles, fragments, or atoms of mat- 

 ter, must have its proper magnitude, 

 figure and shape. 



4. That these differently sized and 

 shaped particles have different orders, 

 positions, situations, and postures, from 

 whence all the variety of compound bo- 

 dies arises. See ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY : 

 ATTRACTION. 



CORREA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Octandria Monogynia class and order : 

 calyx cam panulate, four-toothed; petals 

 four, reflected at the ends ; capsule four- 

 celled, four-valved, with a single seed in 

 each. One species, the alba, a shrub, is a. 

 native of Port Jackson. 



CORRECTION, in printing, the point- 

 ing out or discovering the faults in a print- 

 ed sheets, in order to be amended by the 

 compositor, before it be printed off*. See 

 PRINTERS, marks of. 



CORR1G1OLA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Pentandria Trigynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Holoraceae. Portulacex, 

 Jussieu. Essential character; calyx five- 

 leaved; petals five; seed one, three-sided. 

 There is but one species, viz. C. litoralis. 

 bastard knot grass, a native of France, 

 Germany, Switzerland, and Piedmont, in 

 sandy soils, usually near the sea or rivers. 



CORR1RA, the courier, in natural his- 

 tory, a genus of birds of the order Grallae. 

 Generic character : bill short and straight, 

 and without teeth ; legs long ; thighs lon- 

 ger than the body ; feet palmated, with a 

 back toe. This bird, for there is only one 

 species, is a native of Italy, and is remark- 

 able for the extreme length of its neck as 

 well as legs ; it runs with peculiar speed, 

 and derives, unquestionably, from this 

 circumstance its popular designation of 



