Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 13Francis Lieber Bazin and Ellsworth, 1859 |
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Pàgina 7
... sometimes clothed all in white ; but that is chiefly the church - yard ghosts , who have no particular business , but seem to appear pro bono publico , or to scare drunken rustics from tumbling over their graves . Dragging chains is not ...
... sometimes clothed all in white ; but that is chiefly the church - yard ghosts , who have no particular business , but seem to appear pro bono publico , or to scare drunken rustics from tumbling over their graves . Dragging chains is not ...
Pàgina 10
... sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he perform the common motions with the arms . In a word , when he wishes to be at rest , the muscles aro perpetually moving , and distorting the limbs , face and trunk ; and when any ...
... sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he perform the common motions with the arms . In a word , when he wishes to be at rest , the muscles aro perpetually moving , and distorting the limbs , face and trunk ; and when any ...
Pàgina 15
... sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in- troduced him to good company ; and he was ...
... sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in- troduced him to good company ; and he was ...
Pàgina 30
... sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion . Hence Charles II said he was a strange divine , for he ...
... sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion . Hence Charles II said he was a strange divine , for he ...
Pàgina 31
... sometimes founded more on the scarcity or abundance of characters , than on a difference of sounds , since , in some languages , there are many more vow- el sounds than sigus . In some languages . the sounds of the vowels are uniform ...
... sometimes founded more on the scarcity or abundance of characters , than on a difference of sounds , since , in some languages , there are many more vow- el sounds than sigus . In some languages . the sounds of the vowels are uniform ...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 13 Francis Lieber Visualització completa - 1833 |
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 13 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1835 |
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