Encyclopędia 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 2Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 |
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Pągina 10
... common law , and so is the frequenting of it ; but these offences are , most generally , the subjects of positive statutes . In some parts of Europe , such houses are licensed , and under the care of the medical police . BAXTER , Andrew ...
... common law , and so is the frequenting of it ; but these offences are , most generally , the subjects of positive statutes . In some parts of Europe , such houses are licensed , and under the care of the medical police . BAXTER , Andrew ...
Pągina 16
... Common Council , being a series of letters in the years '96 -7-8 . One letter , dated Dec. 4 , 1798 , assigns the reasons why the fever in '98 was more exten- sively prevalent than in '95 , 6 or 7 , which he considers to be the rains ...
... Common Council , being a series of letters in the years '96 -7-8 . One letter , dated Dec. 4 , 1798 , assigns the reasons why the fever in '98 was more exten- sively prevalent than in '95 , 6 or 7 , which he considers to be the rains ...
Pągina 19
... common . Till then , fashion had given divers forms to mus- tachioes and beards . Much could be said , and has been said , in a medical point of view , on shaving the beard . Such a discussion would lead us , however , here too far . It ...
... common . Till then , fashion had given divers forms to mus- tachioes and beards . Much could be said , and has been said , in a medical point of view , on shaving the beard . Such a discussion would lead us , however , here too far . It ...
Pągina 24
... common use of the whole . The only affair in which they have a joint interest , and upon which they labor in concert , is the dam . vers also make excavations in the adjacent | banks , at regular distances from each : other , which have ...
... common use of the whole . The only affair in which they have a joint interest , and upon which they labor in concert , is the dam . vers also make excavations in the adjacent | banks , at regular distances from each : other , which have ...
Pągina 45
... common form of the bellows , was made by the Germans , about 100 years ago , and the forms at present are very various , as many attempts have been made for the improve- ment of this highly important machine , which becomes necessary ...
... common form of the bellows , was made by the Germans , about 100 years ago , and the forms at present are very various , as many attempts have been made for the improve- ment of this highly important machine , which becomes necessary ...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 2 Francis Lieber Visualització completa - 1840 |
Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 2 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1835 |
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Passatges populars
Pągina 102 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Pągina 170 - Caraecas to the president of the senate, renouncing the presidency of the republic, and expressing a determination to repel the imputations of ambition cast upon him, by retiring to seclusion upon his patrimonial estate. Santander, in reply...
Pągina 178 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio: but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force : as payment of rent ; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one-half of the penal sum specified in the bond. In case this condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited,...
Pągina 216 - He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and an associate of several scientific institutions abroad.
Pągina 196 - ... caprices of his policy. Yet even the proud style in which she demanded what her brothers begged made her the more attractive to her brother. Once, however, when she forgot herself towards the empress, whom she never liked, she was obliged to leave the court. She was yet in disgrace, at Nice, when Napoleon resigned his crown in 1814, upon which occasion she immediately acted as a tender sister. Instead of remaining at her palace in Rome, she set out for Elba, to join her brother, and acted the...
Pągina 23 - They begin to cut down their timber for building early in the summer, but their edifices are not commenced until about the middle or latter part of August, and are not completed until the beginning of the cold season. The strength of their teeth, and their perseverance in this work, may be fairly estimated by the size of the trees they cut down.
Pągina 256 - BREVIARY ; the book containing the daily service of the church of Rome, matins, lauds, prime, third, sixth, nones and vespers, which all Catholics were formerly bound to read daily. This obligation is now restricted to the beneficiary clergy. BREWING. The juices of fruits contain sugar, which is essential to the vinous fermentation. But this does not exist, in any important quantity, in seeds.
Pągina 522 - Cameades specifically was, that " as the senses, the understanding, and the imagination frequently deceive us, they cannot be the infallible judges of truth, but that from the impression made by the senses, we infer appearances of truth, which, with respect to the conduct of life, are a sufficient guide.*' He was a strenuous opposer of Chrysippus, and attacked with great vigour the system of theology of the stoics.
Pągina 196 - They were in his carriage, which was taken in that battle, and was shown publicly at London. He intended to have returned them to her. She lived, afterwards, Separated from her husband, at Rome, where she occupied part of the palace Borghese, and where she possessed, from 1816, the villa Sciarra. Her house, in which taste and love of the fine arts prevailed, was the centre of the most splendid society at Rome.
Pągina 63 - Berchem, are the breadth and just distribution of the lights; the grandeur of his masses of light and shadow; the natural ease and simplicity in the attitudes of his figures, expressing their several characters...