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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Pàgina 8
... less admired and persecuted . In compliance with the advice of his physicians , he soon after remitted his labors , for the purpose of restoring his disordered health by a journey to his native place . After two years , he returned with ...
... less admired and persecuted . In compliance with the advice of his physicians , he soon after remitted his labors , for the purpose of restoring his disordered health by a journey to his native place . After two years , he returned with ...
Pàgina 23
... less important , rose on their ruins . But all similar institutions were surpassed by the Académie des Inscriptions , at Paris , founded by Colbert , in 1663 , for the study of ancient monuments , and for the perpetuation of the ...
... less important , rose on their ruins . But all similar institutions were surpassed by the Académie des Inscriptions , at Paris , founded by Colbert , in 1663 , for the study of ancient monuments , and for the perpetuation of the ...
Pàgina 26
... less odious . ACBAR . ( See Akbar . ) ACCELERATION . ( See Mechanics . ) ACCENT ; the law which regulates the rising and falling of sounds or tones . Music and language , which are subject to this law , both originate in the feelings ...
... less odious . ACBAR . ( See Akbar . ) ACCELERATION . ( See Mechanics . ) ACCENT ; the law which regulates the rising and falling of sounds or tones . Music and language , which are subject to this law , both originate in the feelings ...
Pàgina 34
... less oxygen than the phosphorous acid . ( For Prussic acid , Py- roligneous acid , & c . see Prussic , Pyrolig- neous , & c . ) ACIRS ; hurricanes of snow which pre- vail among the Cevennes , in the south of France . Villages are ...
... less oxygen than the phosphorous acid . ( For Prussic acid , Py- roligneous acid , & c . see Prussic , Pyrolig- neous , & c . ) ACIRS ; hurricanes of snow which pre- vail among the Cevennes , in the south of France . Villages are ...
Pàgina 36
... less violent ; disturbing in a greater or less degree the arrange- ment of its parts . So two bodies of like substance and figure , but unlike mass , when subjected to the same shock , emit sounds unlike in loudness ; and , again ...
... less violent ; disturbing in a greater or less degree the arrange- ment of its parts . So two bodies of like substance and figure , but unlike mass , when subjected to the same shock , emit sounds unlike in loudness ; and , again ...
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