Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volum 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Lea & Blanchard, 1845 |
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Pàgina 3
... ancient Scandinavians , of the use of it among whom , for rousing the people to arms , Olaus Magnus gives a particular count . As late as the insurrection in 1745 , the crantara , or fiery cross , was cir- gated in Scotland , and , on ...
... ancient Scandinavians , of the use of it among whom , for rousing the people to arms , Olaus Magnus gives a particular count . As late as the insurrection in 1745 , the crantara , or fiery cross , was cir- gated in Scotland , and , on ...
Pàgina 9
... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Ídyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
... ancient poets , wholly or in part , comprising selections from Homer and Virgil , nearly the whole of Horace , the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal , the Ídyls of Theocritus , and several of Plutarch's Lives . He likewise published an ...
Pàgina 13
... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Bauer , in Berlin , which is ...
... ancient Romans , as we learn from a passage in Cicero , were aware of its beau- ty , and practised it continually . - Crescendo is also the name of a musical instrument , invented in 1778 , by the counsellor Bauer , in Berlin , which is ...
Pàgina 17
... ancient Greek poetry contained the symbolical and even the Magian and allegorical ideas ; and though this poetry , which was introduced from the East , changed its forms at different times , it was never substantially lost among the ...
... ancient Greek poetry contained the symbolical and even the Magian and allegorical ideas ; and though this poetry , which was introduced from the East , changed its forms at different times , it was never substantially lost among the ...
Pàgina 41
... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
... ancient description of the crocodile is that given by Herodotus , in his observations on Egypt , in his first book . This account , though mingled with a considerable share of fable , is gen- erally correct ; and some of the errors ...
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Encyclopædia Americana, Volum 4 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth,Thomas Gamaliel Bradford,Henry Vethake Visualització completa - 1857 |
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