Encyclopaedia 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, Volum 3Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 |
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Pàgina 8
... town of Catskill , is approached by a good turn- pike road , which winds up the side of the mountain . Two miles west of Pine Orchard are the fine cascades of the Kaaterskill , a stream which is supplied by two small lakes situated high ...
... town of Catskill , is approached by a good turn- pike road , which winds up the side of the mountain . Two miles west of Pine Orchard are the fine cascades of the Kaaterskill , a stream which is supplied by two small lakes situated high ...
Pàgina 9
... town on a peninsula of lake Benacus , now lago di Garda ) , of rich and respect- able parents , went , in his youth , to Rome , where his accomplishments soon won him the favor of those who adorned that splendid era . He was the friend ...
... town on a peninsula of lake Benacus , now lago di Garda ) , of rich and respect- able parents , went , in his youth , to Rome , where his accomplishments soon won him the favor of those who adorned that splendid era . He was the friend ...
Pàgina 11
... town , where all ship - business is carried on , used to meet , make a caucus , " & c . From the fact that the meetings were first held in a part of Boston " where all the ship- business was carried on , " Mr. Pickering inferred that ...
... town , where all ship - business is carried on , used to meet , make a caucus , " & c . From the fact that the meetings were first held in a part of Boston " where all the ship- business was carried on , " Mr. Pickering inferred that ...
Pàgina 15
... town of Santos , in Brazil . After suffering many hardships , he died , in 1592 . CAVENDISH , William , duke of New-- castle , was born in 1592 , and educated by his father , on whose death he was raised to the peerage . On the approach ...
... town of Santos , in Brazil . After suffering many hardships , he died , in 1592 . CAVENDISH , William , duke of New-- castle , was born in 1592 , and educated by his father , on whose death he was raised to the peerage . On the approach ...
Pàgina 17
... town of Peru , capital of a province of the same name ; about 70 miles from the Pacific ocean , 280 N. Lima ; lat . 7 ° 3 ′ S .; lon . 78 ° 35 W .; population , 12,000 . It was , at one time , a royal city , where the emperor Atahualpa ...
... town of Peru , capital of a province of the same name ; about 70 miles from the Pacific ocean , 280 N. Lima ; lat . 7 ° 3 ′ S .; lon . 78 ° 35 W .; population , 12,000 . It was , at one time , a royal city , where the emperor Atahualpa ...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 3 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Visualització completa - 1836 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 216 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Pàgina 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Pàgina 392 - This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction.
Pàgina 436 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state.
Pàgina 2 - An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, ( An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author* and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.
Pàgina 326 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Pàgina 149 - For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth ; Likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; That all men may know his work.
Pàgina 436 - ... been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses in his faVor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...
Pàgina 439 - Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe, and their right to render that worship in the mode most consistent with the dictates of their consciences, no person shall by law be compelled to join or support, nor be classed with, or associated to, any congregation, church, or religious association.
Pàgina 149 - And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth : for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.