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, Volum 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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Pągina 3
... appearance . Steuben told him that he was too respectable to bear the name of a traitor ; and at his request the soldier ... appeared to relieve him in the morning ; but , adhering to the European etiquette , the baron would not quit his ...
... appearance . Steuben told him that he was too respectable to bear the name of a traitor ; and at his request the soldier ... appeared to relieve him in the morning ; but , adhering to the European etiquette , the baron would not quit his ...
Pągina 19
... gave correc- tions and notes to two editions of Chau- cer . At length , in 1598 , appeared his Survey of London , the work on which he had been so long employed , and which came to a second edition during his life- time . STOVES - STOW .
... gave correc- tions and notes to two editions of Chau- cer . At length , in 1598 , appeared his Survey of London , the work on which he had been so long employed , and which came to a second edition during his life- time . STOVES - STOW .
Pągina 21
... appeared at the bar of the house of lords , November 18 , 1640 . The articles of impeachment , at first nine in number , were afterwards increased to twenty - eight , the object of which was to convict him of an attempt to subvert the ...
... appeared at the bar of the house of lords , November 18 , 1640 . The articles of impeachment , at first nine in number , were afterwards increased to twenty - eight , the object of which was to convict him of an attempt to subvert the ...
Pągina 32
... appeared in the work entitled the Anti- quities of Athens ( 1st vol . 1762 , folio ; 4th vol . 1816 ) . A new and improved edition of this valuable work has recently been published . Stuart died in 1788 . STUCCO ( Italian ) in ...
... appeared in the work entitled the Anti- quities of Athens ( 1st vol . 1762 , folio ; 4th vol . 1816 ) . A new and improved edition of this valuable work has recently been published . Stuart died in 1788 . STUCCO ( Italian ) in ...
Pągina 34
... appeared in 3 vols . , folio , at Copen- hagen ( 1777-82 ) . The continuation by Sturla Thoraldson ( of Norway ) , and an un- known writer , is to be found in Christian Jakobi's Norvegia Monarchica et Chris- tiana ( Glückstadt , 1712 ...
... appeared in 3 vols . , folio , at Copen- hagen ( 1777-82 ) . The continuation by Sturla Thoraldson ( of Norway ) , and an un- known writer , is to be found in Christian Jakobi's Norvegia Monarchica et Chris- tiana ( Glückstadt , 1712 ...
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Passatges populars
Pągina 412 - ... into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Pągina 65 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Pągina 304 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Pągina 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Pągina 449 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will.
Pągina 422 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Pągina 448 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Pągina 412 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Pągina 448 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Pągina 446 - Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy ; and, under his superintendence discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States.