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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... lived quietly in their dioceses , and had no influence on the public administration ; but the Catholic bishops strove after an active participation in public affairs , in order to render secure the authority which their church had ...
... lived quietly in their dioceses , and had no influence on the public administration ; but the Catholic bishops strove after an active participation in public affairs , in order to render secure the authority which their church had ...
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... lived . Thus the intelligent and philosophical Nicolai ( q . v . ) saw nothing but men and women , horses , dogs and birds in their natural form . The illusions of the superstitious consist of demons or angels , and all sorts of ...
... lived . Thus the intelligent and philosophical Nicolai ( q . v . ) saw nothing but men and women , horses , dogs and birds in their natural form . The illusions of the superstitious consist of demons or angels , and all sorts of ...
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... lived for more than two years in se- crecy , frequently changing his abode , in fear for his life , and died , in 1622 , at the age of fifty - three . VORTICES OF DESCARTES . cartes . ) ( See Des- VOSGES ; a chain of mountains in the ...
... lived for more than two years in se- crecy , frequently changing his abode , in fear for his life , and died , in 1622 , at the age of fifty - three . VORTICES OF DESCARTES . cartes . ) ( See Des- VOSGES ; a chain of mountains in the ...
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... lived much in the society of the great , his behavior was sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion ...
... lived much in the society of the great , his behavior was sometimes rude , and his language by no means decent . In his writings , he maintained extravagant para- doxes , while he was generally consid- ered as an infidel in religion ...
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... lived , after his return to France , on his estate , eight leagues from Paris , devoted to scientific pursuits . In October , 1813 , he was chosen a member of the imperial institute , of the class of history and an- cient literature ...
... lived , after his return to France , on his estate , eight leagues from Paris , devoted to scientific pursuits . In October , 1813 , he was chosen a member of the imperial institute , of the class of history and an- cient literature ...
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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