Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T.G. Bradford). |
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... British were apprehensive that their commerce would be endangered , several bands of warriors having proceeded to the Persian gulf , formed a junction with the pirates , and disturbed the communication between Bassora , Mascat and India ...
... British were apprehensive that their commerce would be endangered , several bands of warriors having proceeded to the Persian gulf , formed a junction with the pirates , and disturbed the communication between Bassora , Mascat and India ...
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... British Empire ( 1804 ) ; Domestic Recreation ( 1805 ) ; Excursions in North America ( 1806 ) ; Sketches of Human Manners ( 1807 ) ; Variety ( 1809 ) ; Perambulations in London , & c . ( 1810 ) ; Instinct Displayed ( 1811 ) ; the ...
... British Empire ( 1804 ) ; Domestic Recreation ( 1805 ) ; Excursions in North America ( 1806 ) ; Sketches of Human Manners ( 1807 ) ; Variety ( 1809 ) ; Perambulations in London , & c . ( 1810 ) ; Instinct Displayed ( 1811 ) ; the ...
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... British govern- ment had recourse for purchasing troops in the American war . WALDENSES . This Christian sect , celebrated as the precursor of the refor- mation , appears , from old manuscripts in the university of Cambridge , to have ...
... British govern- ment had recourse for purchasing troops in the American war . WALDENSES . This Christian sect , celebrated as the precursor of the refor- mation , appears , from old manuscripts in the university of Cambridge , to have ...
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... British Ordovices and Silures , and was anciently called Cambria . In the ninth century , it was divided into three ... British throne , first conferred by Edward I on his son ( after- wards Edward II ) , at the time of his con- quest of ...
... British Ordovices and Silures , and was anciently called Cambria . In the ninth century , it was divided into three ... British throne , first conferred by Edward I on his son ( after- wards Edward II ) , at the time of his con- quest of ...
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... British minister . He was at first in the Hanoverian , then in the Prussian , and at length entered the Austrian service , in which he distinguished himself from 1796. In the campaign of 1813 , he was victorious over the French on the ...
... British minister . He was at first in the Hanoverian , then in the Prussian , and at length entered the Austrian service , in which he distinguished himself from 1796. In the campaign of 1813 , he was victorious over the French on the ...
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Page 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 147 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 463 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Page 257 - Descriptive Sketches. In Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps.
Page 475 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 475 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Page 475 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Page 400 - If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to our mountains and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until, tired of combating, in vain, against a spirit which victory after victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. — No, sir, — we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilt, we have no doubt...
Page 452 - FORGERY at common law has been defined as "the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right ;" (a) or, more recently, as " a false making, a making malo animo, of any written instrument, for the purpose of fraud and deceit...
Page 110 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.