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 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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Pàgina 106
... Persians worshipped the sun ; therefore the Persians wor- shipped a senseless being . Conjunctive syllogisms are those in which one of the premises - viz . the major - has distinct parts joined by a conjunction or some such particle of ...
... Persians worshipped the sun ; therefore the Persians wor- shipped a senseless being . Conjunctive syllogisms are those in which one of the premises - viz . the major - has distinct parts joined by a conjunction or some such particle of ...
Pàgina 115
... Persia , and the interior of Asia ; but it has been interrupted by the disturbed state of the countries . Syria is inhabited by various descriptions of people , but Turks and Greeks form the basis of the population in the cities . The ...
... Persia , and the interior of Asia ; but it has been interrupted by the disturbed state of the countries . Syria is inhabited by various descriptions of people , but Turks and Greeks form the basis of the population in the cities . The ...
Pàgina 116
... Persia , to whom they had fled . The other Christians in Persia joined them in 499 , and they gained many adherents in Eastern Asia , where the Christians of St. Thomas ( q . v . ) also joined them . In the eleventh cen- tury , they ...
... Persia , to whom they had fled . The other Christians in Persia joined them in 499 , and they gained many adherents in Eastern Asia , where the Christians of St. Thomas ( q . v . ) also joined them . In the eleventh cen- tury , they ...
Pàgina 133
... Persian ar- my , which was defeated by Tancred . After Easter , in 1099 , the crusaders set forward for the conquest of Jerusalem . Tancred took Bethlehem , and pressed forward to be the first to see the walls of the holy city ...
... Persian ar- my , which was defeated by Tancred . After Easter , in 1099 , the crusaders set forward for the conquest of Jerusalem . Tancred took Bethlehem , and pressed forward to be the first to see the walls of the holy city ...
Pàgina 139
... Persian , it is tarij . In Arabian , the verb arf signifies to know , which in the second form becomes tarif , signifying to make known . The substan- tive derived from the verb therefore signi- fies notification . TARLETON , general ...
... Persian , it is tarij . In Arabian , the verb arf signifies to know , which in the second form becomes tarif , signifying to make known . The substan- tive derived from the verb therefore signi- fies notification . TARLETON , general ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 412 - ... into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Pàgina 65 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Pàgina 304 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Pàgina 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Pàgina 449 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will.
Pàgina 422 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Pàgina 448 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Pàgina 412 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Pàgina 448 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Pàgina 446 - Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy ; and, under his superintendence discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States.