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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... vols . , 8vo . ) , and of Stratico ( Ettingen , 1828 , 4 vols . ) . An English translation of the work of Vitruvius , with a commentary , by Wil- liam Newton , appeared in 1771 , folio , re- published 1791 , 2 vols . , folio ; and a new ...
... vols . , 8vo . ) , and of Stratico ( Ettingen , 1828 , 4 vols . ) . An English translation of the work of Vitruvius , with a commentary , by Wil- liam Newton , appeared in 1771 , folio , re- published 1791 , 2 vols . , folio ; and a new ...
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... vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which was esteemed too bold ... vol . vii , p . 69. ) VIZIER is a title of honor with the Turks , belonging to all the pachas of three tails ( i . e ...
... vols . , folio ; but this collection does not include his Commentary on St. Augustine , which was esteemed too bold ... vol . vii , p . 69. ) VIZIER is a title of honor with the Turks , belonging to all the pachas of three tails ( i . e ...
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... vols . , 8vo . ) , which was trans- lated into English , Dutch and German . This work procured him much reputa- tion ... vols . , 8vo . ) , with a Vocabulary of the Language of the Miamis ; Chronologie d'Herodote conformé à son Texte ...
... vols . , 8vo . ) , which was trans- lated into English , Dutch and German . This work procured him much reputa- tion ... vols . , 8vo . ) , with a Vocabulary of the Language of the Miamis ; Chronologie d'Herodote conformé à son Texte ...
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... Vol- pato at the head of a school of design , and gave him the honor of having ren- dered the productions of that ... vols . ) , and pro- fessor Zuccala published a eulogy upon him ( Elogio di Volta ) in 1827 . In VOLTAIC PILE . ( See ...
... Vol- pato at the head of a school of design , and gave him the honor of having ren- dered the productions of that ... vols . ) , and pro- fessor Zuccala published a eulogy upon him ( Elogio di Volta ) in 1827 . In VOLTAIC PILE . ( See ...
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... vols . ) . Wagnière was directed by the empress Catharine , who bought Vol- taire's library , to arrange it in St ... vols . 4to and 8vo , and 92 vols . 12mo ; and , by Pal- issot , with notes , at Paris , 1796 , seq . The Pièces ...
... vols . ) . Wagnière was directed by the empress Catharine , who bought Vol- taire's library , to arrange it in St ... vols . 4to and 8vo , and 92 vols . 12mo ; and , by Pal- issot , with notes , at Paris , 1796 , seq . The Pièces ...
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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