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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... contains numerous and excellent fish : its navigation is very important , as the prod- ucts of Poland - wood , grain , & c . — are transported on it to Dantzic , on the Bal- tic . The canal of Bromberg connects the Vistula with the Oder ...
... contains numerous and excellent fish : its navigation is very important , as the prod- ucts of Poland - wood , grain , & c . — are transported on it to Dantzic , on the Bal- tic . The canal of Bromberg connects the Vistula with the Oder ...
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... containing an Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Architecture among the Greeks , was published in 1812 , folio . VITTORIA , OF VICTORIA , Fernandez Guadalupe , late president of the Mexican republic , was born at Durango ...
... containing an Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Architecture among the Greeks , was published in 1812 , folio . VITTORIA , OF VICTORIA , Fernandez Guadalupe , late president of the Mexican republic , was born at Durango ...
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... contains more than about half of them . They are divisible into two very distinct and nearly equal classes , called vowels ( q . v . ) and consonants . " ( q . v . ) In the article Consonant , the natural division of words is shown to ...
... contains more than about half of them . They are divisible into two very distinct and nearly equal classes , called vowels ( q . v . ) and consonants . " ( q . v . ) In the article Consonant , the natural division of words is shown to ...
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... contains some mountainous and woody districts , and in some parts is well adapted for pasturage and tillage . The most remarkable peculiarity is the pearl - fishery in the river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc ...
... contains some mountainous and woody districts , and in some parts is well adapted for pasturage and tillage . The most remarkable peculiarity is the pearl - fishery in the river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc ...
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... contains no errors which affect points of faith or morals : he does not pretend that it is without fault . The Protestants , however , were of opinion that the Vulgate was to be absolutely re- jected , if they desired to rest their ...
... contains no errors which affect points of faith or morals : he does not pretend that it is without fault . The Protestants , however , were of opinion that the Vulgate was to be absolutely re- jected , if they desired to rest their ...
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Pągina 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.
Pągina 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
Pągina 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.
Pągina 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.
Pągina 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
Pągina 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
Pągina 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.
Pągina 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
Pągina 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
Pągina 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