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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... remarkable peculiarity is the pearl - fishery in the river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in ...
... remarkable peculiarity is the pearl - fishery in the river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in ...
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... remarkable man . Joseph II only did not visit him . Nevertheless , Voltaire was by no means happy . Too much accustomed to the constant admira- tion of the world , he soon became weary of his quiet life , and went , even in his ad ...
... remarkable man . Joseph II only did not visit him . Nevertheless , Voltaire was by no means happy . Too much accustomed to the constant admira- tion of the world , he soon became weary of his quiet life , and went , even in his ad ...
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... remarkable was the truce of God ( q . v . ) , by which men were forbidden to assail their adversaries dur- ing any of the holy festivals , and also dur- ing the interval between every Wednes- day evening and Monday morning , as ...
... remarkable was the truce of God ( q . v . ) , by which men were forbidden to assail their adversaries dur- ing any of the holy festivals , and also dur- ing the interval between every Wednes- day evening and Monday morning , as ...
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... remarkable for its extent , which structure renders the animal better adapt- ed for an aquatic life : accordingly , the mink swims and dives with great facility , and can remain under water for a consid- erable length of time . It does ...
... remarkable for its extent , which structure renders the animal better adapt- ed for an aquatic life : accordingly , the mink swims and dives with great facility , and can remain under water for a consid- erable length of time . It does ...
Pągina 107
... remarkable , the days of the week are generally named after the sun and planets , only six planets having been known to the ancients . This manner of distinguishing a series of seven days is found to be the same among the ancient ...
... remarkable , the days of the week are generally named after the sun and planets , only six planets having been known to the ancients . This manner of distinguishing a series of seven days is found to be the same among the ancient ...
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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