The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 3Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1903 |
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... England , 27 Dec. 1823. He went to Canada when 10 years old and learned the printing trade , becoming editor of the Belleville Intelligencer . He served in the Canadian militia . After the Confederation he served in the Dominion House ...
... England , 27 Dec. 1823. He went to Canada when 10 years old and learned the printing trade , becoming editor of the Belleville Intelligencer . He served in the Canadian militia . After the Confederation he served in the Dominion House ...
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... England , and from that time onward the practice of fighting with the fists for prizes or for championships has been reduced well - nigh to a " science . " Methods of striking , ring tac- tics , etc. , have developed until mere brute ...
... England , and from that time onward the practice of fighting with the fists for prizes or for championships has been reduced well - nigh to a " science . " Methods of striking , ring tac- tics , etc. , have developed until mere brute ...
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... England , the day after Christmas , so called from the practice of giv- ing Christmas - boxes or presents on that day . It was made a bank holiday by the act of 1871 . Boxthorn . See LYCIUM . Boy Bishop , a boy chosen on St. Nicholas ...
... England , the day after Christmas , so called from the practice of giv- ing Christmas - boxes or presents on that day . It was made a bank holiday by the act of 1871 . Boxthorn . See LYCIUM . Boy Bishop , a boy chosen on St. Nicholas ...
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... England long before it became so in England . He visited England in 1725 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . Besides some papers published in the Transactions of that Society he wrote : His- torical Account of the Smallpox ...
... England long before it became so in England . He visited England in 1725 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . Besides some papers published in the Transactions of that Society he wrote : His- torical Account of the Smallpox ...
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... England , and became pastor of the First Con- gregational Church , Montclair , N. J. , in the year last named . He has written : ' Spirit and Life ' ( 1888 ) ; Old Wine , New Bottles ' ( 1892 ) ; The Pilgrim in Old England ' ( 1893 ) ...
... England , and became pastor of the First Con- gregational Church , Montclair , N. J. , in the year last named . He has written : ' Spirit and Life ' ( 1888 ) ; Old Wine , New Bottles ' ( 1892 ) ; The Pilgrim in Old England ' ( 1893 ) ...
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