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 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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Pàgina 9
... Christ , and about as long after Homer . In Homer's time , all knowledge , religion and laws were preserved by memory alone , and for that reason were put in verse , till prose was introduced with the art of writing . The argument drawn ...
... Christ , and about as long after Homer . In Homer's time , all knowledge , religion and laws were preserved by memory alone , and for that reason were put in verse , till prose was introduced with the art of writing . The argument drawn ...
Pàgina 15
... Christianity and civilization , like a shipwrecked mariner with the waves , for life and freedom , whilst Christian Europe beheld the death - struggle , for seven years , without coming to any resolution which posterity will consider as ...
... Christianity and civilization , like a shipwrecked mariner with the waves , for life and freedom , whilst Christian Europe beheld the death - struggle , for seven years , without coming to any resolution which posterity will consider as ...
Pàgina 17
... Christian faith , and to restore the ancient character of their country . " From Europe , nothing is wanted but money , arms and counsel . " From that time , the suffering Greeks found friends in Germany , France , Switzerland , England ...
... Christian faith , and to restore the ancient character of their country . " From Europe , nothing is wanted but money , arms and counsel . " From that time , the suffering Greeks found friends in Germany , France , Switzerland , England ...
Pàgina 18
... Christian am- bassadors . The savage grand - vizier , in- deed , lost his place , May 1 , and soon after his life ; but Mahmud ( q . v . ) , and his fa- vorite Halet Effendi , persisted in the plan of extermination . The courageous ...
... Christian am- bassadors . The savage grand - vizier , in- deed , lost his place , May 1 , and soon after his life ; but Mahmud ( q . v . ) , and his fa- vorite Halet Effendi , persisted in the plan of extermination . The courageous ...
Pàgina 23
... Christian families per- ished , and the pacha boasted that he had murdered in one day 1500 women and children . Even the Porte disapproved these measures , and the pacha was con- demned to be strangled ; but , surrounded by his body ...
... Christian families per- ished , and the pacha boasted that he had murdered in one day 1500 women and children . Even the Porte disapproved these measures , and the pacha was con- demned to be strangled ; but , surrounded by his body ...
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Pàgina 128 - St. John's Palace, an ancient house in Wells Street, is believed to have been the residence of the prior of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. Pop. 60,000. — Hackney-coaches took their name from this parish. HADDINQTON, or KAST-LOTHIAW, had' -ding -ton, a county of Scotland, bounded E.