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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... sometimes clothed all in white ; but that is chiefly the church - yard ghosts , who have no particular business , but seem to appear pro bono publico , or to scare drunken rustics from tumbling over their graves . Dragging chains is not ...
... sometimes clothed all in white ; but that is chiefly the church - yard ghosts , who have no particular business , but seem to appear pro bono publico , or to scare drunken rustics from tumbling over their graves . Dragging chains is not ...
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... sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he perform the common motions with the arms . In a word , when he wishes to be at rest , the muscles are perpetually moving , and distorting the limbs , face and trunk ; and when any ...
... sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he perform the common motions with the arms . In a word , when he wishes to be at rest , the muscles are perpetually moving , and distorting the limbs , face and trunk ; and when any ...
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... sometimes found in dropsy in the head and small - pox , and is a bad symptom . The raucitas acuta originates partly from the same causes as the raucitas gravis . With hysteri- cal persons it indicates an approach- ing fit . Voice , in ...
... sometimes found in dropsy in the head and small - pox , and is a bad symptom . The raucitas acuta originates partly from the same causes as the raucitas gravis . With hysteri- cal persons it indicates an approach- ing fit . Voice , in ...
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... sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in- troduced him to good company ; and he was ...
... sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in- troduced him to good company ; and he was ...
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... sometimes shaken by earthquakes , may be connected . The island of Bourbon belongs to another the- atre of volcanic action , of which Mada- gascar probably forms a part , if the al- leged existence of burning volcanoes in that island ...
... sometimes shaken by earthquakes , may be connected . The island of Bourbon belongs to another the- atre of volcanic action , of which Mada- gascar probably forms a part , if the al- leged existence of burning volcanoes in that island ...
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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