Encyclopaedia 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 13Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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... become more firmly attached to each other and to Rome . Notwithstanding this , and not- withstanding the convulsions produced by frequent changes of government , and by factions , the kingdom of the Visigoths , in the first century of ...
... become more firmly attached to each other and to Rome . Notwithstanding this , and not- withstanding the convulsions produced by frequent changes of government , and by factions , the kingdom of the Visigoths , in the first century of ...
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... become the established religion , when the clergy , who had be- come accustomed , during their former state of oppression , to adhere firmly to- gether , acquired a predominant influence , such as they obtained in no other Germanic ...
... become the established religion , when the clergy , who had be- come accustomed , during their former state of oppression , to adhere firmly to- gether , acquired a predominant influence , such as they obtained in no other Germanic ...
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... become more violent . These convulsive motions vary considerably . The muscles of the extremities , and of the face , those moving the lower jaw , the head and the trunk of the body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent ...
... become more violent . These convulsive motions vary considerably . The muscles of the extremities , and of the face , those moving the lower jaw , the head and the trunk of the body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent ...
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... become one of the first fellows of Corpus Christi college , Oxford . He was patronised by Catharine of Arra- gon , and , in 1522 , dedicated his Commen- tary upon St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei to king Henry VIII . He was also ap ...
... become one of the first fellows of Corpus Christi college , Oxford . He was patronised by Catharine of Arra- gon , and , in 1522 , dedicated his Commen- tary upon St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei to king Henry VIII . He was also ap ...
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... become intermixed with sediment of other kinds , and with shells and corals , and , when afterwards raised , form rocks of a mixed character , such as tufas , peperinos and volcanic conglomerates . Besides the ejections which fall on ...
... become intermixed with sediment of other kinds , and with shells and corals , and , when afterwards raised , form rocks of a mixed character , such as tufas , peperinos and volcanic conglomerates . Besides the ejections which fall on ...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 13 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1835 |
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Pàgina 145 - is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Pàgina 145 - led the way into the Pacific seas. " Look at the manner," says Burke (1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's
Pàgina 145 - Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry.
Pàgina 491 - in the city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware-house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, provided such person shall have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes.
Pàgina 384 - contracting powers express their "regrets that their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of all the Russias, are not prepared to concur in active measures to carry the treaty into
Pàgina 465 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although
Pàgina 194 - yet more Bloody, by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White. In these works of Williams, the doctrine of religious liberty and unlimited toleration are illustrated in strong language, and supported by stronger arguments—arguments that preceded those of Locke, Bayle and Furneau.
Pàgina 64 - which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate
Pàgina 64 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed
Pàgina 264 - that, if any person escaped alive out of the ship, it should be no wreck: and, after various modifications, it was decided, in the reign of Henry III, that if goods were cast on shore, having any marks by which they could be identified, they were to revert to the