Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 3Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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Pàgina 15
... England , is also a celebrated curiosity of this kind . It is nearly half a mile in length , and , at its lowest part , 600 feet below the surface . The caves of Kirkdale , in England , and Gailenreuth , in Germany , are remarkable for ...
... England , is also a celebrated curiosity of this kind . It is nearly half a mile in length , and , at its lowest part , 600 feet below the surface . The caves of Kirkdale , in England , and Gailenreuth , in Germany , are remarkable for ...
Pàgina 40
... England ; 8. of Sicily ; 9 . of Scotland ; 10. of Hungary ; 11. of Na- varre ; 12. of Cyprus ; 13. of Bohemia phemia ; 14. of Poland ; 15. of Denmark ; 16. re- public of Venice ; 17. duke of Bretagne ; 18. duke of Burgundy ; 19. elector ...
... England ; 8. of Sicily ; 9 . of Scotland ; 10. of Hungary ; 11. of Na- varre ; 12. of Cyprus ; 13. of Bohemia phemia ; 14. of Poland ; 15. of Denmark ; 16. re- public of Venice ; 17. duke of Bretagne ; 18. duke of Burgundy ; 19. elector ...
Pàgina 53
... England , is called lord great chamberlain of England . His office is one of great antiquity and honor , being ranked as the sixth great office of the English crown . He dresses and un- dresses the king before and after the cor- onation ...
... England , is called lord great chamberlain of England . His office is one of great antiquity and honor , being ranked as the sixth great office of the English crown . He dresses and un- dresses the king before and after the cor- onation ...
Pàgina 64
... England and France , the passage of which is often very tedious for vessels going from the Atlantic into the German ocean . ( See Calais and Dover . ) CHANNELS , OF CHAIN - WALES , of a ship ; broad and thick planks projecting hori ...
... England and France , the passage of which is often very tedious for vessels going from the Atlantic into the German ocean . ( See Calais and Dover . ) CHANNELS , OF CHAIN - WALES , of a ship ; broad and thick planks projecting hori ...
Pàgina 68
... England to the states - general of Holland , and agent of the English East India com- pany to the same . His new duties did not distract him from his favorite employ- ment , so that , in 1711 , two editions of his travels appeared . He ...
... England to the states - general of Holland , and agent of the English East India com- pany to the same . His new duties did not distract him from his favorite employ- ment , so that , in 1711 , two editions of his travels appeared . He ...
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Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 3 Visualització completa - 1849 |
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 3 Visualització completa - 1844 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 218 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Pàgina 2 - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Pàgina 151 - For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth ; Likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; That all men may know his work.
Pàgina 141 - CHIMERA; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon.
Pàgina 394 - This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction.
Pàgina 328 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Pàgina 390 - And this is a politic establishment, contrived by the policy of the law, for the safety of all persons, the necessity of whose affairs oblige them to trust these sorts of persons, that they may be safe in their ways of dealing; for else these carriers might have an opportunity of undoing all persons that had any dealings with them, by combining with thieves, &c., and yet doing it in such a clandestine manner as would not be possible to be discovered. And this is the reason the law is founded upon...
Pàgina 500 - British islands were declared to be in a state of blockade" thereby subjecting to capture and condemnation all vessels, with their cargoes, which should continue to trade with...
Pàgina 442 - The Code of 1650, being a Compilation of the earliest Laws and Orders of the General Court of Connecticut ; also the Constitution, or Civil Compact entered into and adopted by the Towns of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, in 1638—9...
Pàgina 436 - Each house is required to keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, to publish the same, excepting such parts as, in its judgment, may require secrecy.