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, Volume 13Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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... early as 633 , the regulation was made , that those secular grandees alone should be admitted , who should be pro- nounced worthy of the honor , by the bishops . The internal disturbances , which the excessive power of the clergy pro ...
... early as 633 , the regulation was made , that those secular grandees alone should be admitted , who should be pro- nounced worthy of the honor , by the bishops . The internal disturbances , which the excessive power of the clergy pro ...
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... early showed great talent for playing on the organ , and for composing . The elector of the Palatinate , Charles Theodore , sent him to Italy , about 1773 , to study music . In about three years , he returned to Manheim , the residence ...
... early showed great talent for playing on the organ , and for composing . The elector of the Palatinate , Charles Theodore , sent him to Italy , about 1773 , to study music . In about three years , he returned to Manheim , the residence ...
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... early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate , than he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts ...
... early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate , than he converted it into money , and embarked for the Levant , travelled through several parts ...
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... early noblemen were called by their Christian name , with the addition of the castle or village which be- longed to them . Before family names be- came settled ( see Names ) , it was very cus- tomary , on the European continent , to ...
... early noblemen were called by their Christian name , with the addition of the castle or village which be- longed to them . Before family names be- came settled ( see Names ) , it was very cus- tomary , on the European continent , to ...
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... early period of the church , a Latin translation of the Old Testament existed , called Itala , made after the Septu- agint . ( q . v . ) St. Jerome found that this translation was not always accurate , and made a new Latin translation ...
... early period of the church , a Latin translation of the Old Testament existed , called Itala , made after the Septu- agint . ( q . v . ) St. Jerome found that this translation was not always accurate , and made a new Latin translation ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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