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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Pàgina 14
... feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola of the latter had but a single gold stripe , whilst that of the former had stripes of gold and purple , and at the bottom a broad border or fringe ...
... feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola of the latter had but a single gold stripe , whilst that of the former had stripes of gold and purple , and at the bottom a broad border or fringe ...
Pàgina 17
... feet in length , from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the nails . The prevailing color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in ...
... feet in length , from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the nails . The prevailing color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in ...
Pàgina 20
... feet long , 43 feet broad , and 56§ feet high , cost nearly 60,000 dollars ; the state draw- ing - room , 50 feet by 32 , and 22 feet high , contains a collection of fine pictures , most- ly by the old masters . The library con- sists ...
... feet long , 43 feet broad , and 56§ feet high , cost nearly 60,000 dollars ; the state draw- ing - room , 50 feet by 32 , and 22 feet high , contains a collection of fine pictures , most- ly by the old masters . The library con- sists ...
Pàgina 22
... feet draught . It was formerly one of the principal Hanse towns . ( See Hansa . ) It has considera- ble trade . Corn is the principal article of export , of which there are sometimes shipped from 30 to 40,000 quarters . It contains a ...
... feet draught . It was formerly one of the principal Hanse towns . ( See Hansa . ) It has considera- ble trade . Corn is the principal article of export , of which there are sometimes shipped from 30 to 40,000 quarters . It contains a ...
Pàgina 27
... feet , so the length of strophes is determined by the number of cola . Monocola are lyric poems , in which verse of a uniform char- acter is used , without division into strophes . Dicola are poems in which the strophes contain verses ...
... feet , so the length of strophes is determined by the number of cola . Monocola are lyric poems , in which verse of a uniform char- acter is used , without division into strophes . Dicola are poems in which the strophes contain verses ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.