Encyclopædia 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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Pàgina 6
... institutions for instruction ; the sciences were promoted by the foundation of the academy of sci- ences at Munich , in 1759 , and the fine arts found in him a liberal protector . He , himself without children , confirmed all the ...
... institutions for instruction ; the sciences were promoted by the foundation of the academy of sci- ences at Munich , in 1759 , and the fine arts found in him a liberal protector . He , himself without children , confirmed all the ...
Pàgina 9
... institutions for promoting them have been established , including agricul- tural seminaries , in which those young men who prepare themselves for village school - masters learn gardening , & c . A festival was instituted by Maximilian ...
... institutions for promoting them have been established , including agricul- tural seminaries , in which those young men who prepare themselves for village school - masters learn gardening , & c . A festival was instituted by Maximilian ...
Pàgina 28
... institution , in 1798. He engaged , as superintendent of the whole , a young man , Humphrey Davy , the foundation of whose future fame was laid here . The chief purpose of the institution , however , was never realized , and B.'s zeal ...
... institution , in 1798. He engaged , as superintendent of the whole , a young man , Humphrey Davy , the foundation of whose future fame was laid here . The chief purpose of the institution , however , was never realized , and B.'s zeal ...
Pàgina 36
... institutions , where unmarried females , of the lower class of people , have a lodging free of expense , and enjoy some other advantages . BEHAIM , Martin , born at Nuremberg , about 1430 , is distinguished as one of the most learned ...
... institutions , where unmarried females , of the lower class of people , have a lodging free of expense , and enjoy some other advantages . BEHAIM , Martin , born at Nuremberg , about 1430 , is distinguished as one of the most learned ...
Pàgina 51
... institution of the Cluniacs , a new branch of the Benedictines , which proceeded from the convent of Clugny , in Burgundy , founded in the year 910. The Benedictine monasteries , in the middle ages , were often asylums in which sci ...
... institution of the Cluniacs , a new branch of the Benedictines , which proceeded from the convent of Clugny , in Burgundy , founded in the year 910. The Benedictine monasteries , in the middle ages , were often asylums in which sci ...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 2 Francis Lieber Visualització completa - 1840 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 102 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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,...
Pàgina 216 - He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and an associate of several scientific institutions abroad.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...