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 : on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volum 13Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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Pàgina 33
... feet of the vultures are incapable of grasp- ing and bearing off living prey , although sufficiently powerful to permit them to rest on trees : the mouth is also much smaller , the angle not extending beneath the eyes ; the head is ...
... feet of the vultures are incapable of grasp- ing and bearing off living prey , although sufficiently powerful to permit them to rest on trees : the mouth is also much smaller , the angle not extending beneath the eyes ; the head is ...
Pàgina 43
... feet in height . There is a handsome stone bridge over the Calder , built in the reign of Edward III , in the centre of which is a chapel , in the richest style of Gothic or Saracenic architecture , ten yards in length , and about eight ...
... feet in height . There is a handsome stone bridge over the Calder , built in the reign of Edward III , in the centre of which is a chapel , in the richest style of Gothic or Saracenic architecture , ten yards in length , and about eight ...
Pàgina 47
... in the latter division . The general aspect of Wales is mountainous , affording nu- merous views of wild scenery , interspers- ed with delightful valleys . The loftiest summits in North Wales are Snowdon ( 3579 feet ) WALDENSES - WALES .
... in the latter division . The general aspect of Wales is mountainous , affording nu- merous views of wild scenery , interspers- ed with delightful valleys . The loftiest summits in North Wales are Snowdon ( 3579 feet ) WALDENSES - WALES .
Pàgina 48
... feet ) , Plinlimmon , and Cader Idris . Numerous small lakes are scattered among the mountains ; and there are several nav- igable rivers , such as the Severn , the Coye , the Conway , the Towy , and the Dee . The climate is colder than ...
... feet ) , Plinlimmon , and Cader Idris . Numerous small lakes are scattered among the mountains ; and there are several nav- igable rivers , such as the Severn , the Coye , the Conway , the Towy , and the Dee . The climate is colder than ...
Pàgina 56
... feet . It is one of our largest trees , and yields to none in the majesty of its appearance . The nuts are sold in the markets of our principal cities , and are often served upon table . The shell is very hard , and the kernel is ...
... feet . It is one of our largest trees , and yields to none in the majesty of its appearance . The nuts are sold in the markets of our principal cities , and are often served upon table . The shell is very hard , and the kernel is ...
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Pàgina 145 - is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Pàgina 145 - led the way into the Pacific seas. " Look at the manner," says Burke (1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's
Pàgina 145 - Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry.
Pàgina 491 - in the city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware-house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, provided such person shall have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes.
Pàgina 384 - contracting powers express their "regrets that their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of all the Russias, are not prepared to concur in active measures to carry the treaty into
Pàgina 465 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although
Pàgina 194 - yet more Bloody, by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White. In these works of Williams, the doctrine of religious liberty and unlimited toleration are illustrated in strong language, and supported by stronger arguments—arguments that preceded those of Locke, Bayle and Furneau.
Pàgina 64 - which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate
Pàgina 64 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed
Pàgina 264 - that, if any person escaped alive out of the ship, it should be no wreck: and, after various modifications, it was decided, in the reign of Henry III, that if goods were cast on shore, having any marks by which they could be identified, they were to revert to the