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 1Francis Lieber Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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... cause to charge this title with being too pretending . My idea of a good American encyclopedia has been , that it should contain , besides the most valuable portions of the English encyclopedias , and the topics of peculiar value to an ...
... cause to charge this title with being too pretending . My idea of a good American encyclopedia has been , that it should contain , besides the most valuable portions of the English encyclopedias , and the topics of peculiar value to an ...
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... cause , Mr. Wil- berforce . The society has already pub- lished several works illustrative of the state of slavery , and pointing out its evils in a commercial , political , and religious point of view . ( See Slavery , Colonization ...
... cause , Mr. Wil- berforce . The society has already pub- lished several works illustrative of the state of slavery , and pointing out its evils in a commercial , political , and religious point of view . ( See Slavery , Colonization ...
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... cause of science . He was well acquainted with history , jurisprudence , medicine , botany , mathematics and as- tronomy , and has bequeathed to us the fruits of his long inquiries in several valu- able works , of which his history of ...
... cause of science . He was well acquainted with history , jurisprudence , medicine , botany , mathematics and as- tronomy , and has bequeathed to us the fruits of his long inquiries in several valu- able works , of which his history of ...
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... cause of their pecu- liar brutality and barbarism . Dead bod- ies are seen lying in the streets , and serve as food to dogs and hyenas . Marriage is there a very slight connexion , formed and dissolved at pleasure ; conjugal fidel- ity ...
... cause of their pecu- liar brutality and barbarism . Dead bod- ies are seen lying in the streets , and serve as food to dogs and hyenas . Marriage is there a very slight connexion , formed and dissolved at pleasure ; conjugal fidel- ity ...
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... causes ; the latter has for its ob- ject the relations of ideas . The laws which govern both are briefly the fol- lowing : A syllable or tone of the natural length receives the grammatical or verbal accent ; but there are two causes ...
... causes ; the latter has for its ob- ject the relations of ideas . The laws which govern both are briefly the fol- lowing : A syllable or tone of the natural length receives the grammatical or verbal accent ; but there are two causes ...
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