Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... prince , his grandson , he embraced the favorable opportunity to make himself master of a part of the ter- ritories still belonging to the Visigoths in southern Gaul ; and , after a long separation of the two nations , there existed ...
... prince , his grandson , he embraced the favorable opportunity to make himself master of a part of the ter- ritories still belonging to the Visigoths in southern Gaul ; and , after a long separation of the two nations , there existed ...
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... prince of Biscari ; so that the traveller may now see the solid lava curling over the top of the rampart , as if still in the very act of falling . This great current had performed a course of fifteen miles , before it entered the sea ...
... prince of Biscari ; so that the traveller may now see the solid lava curling over the top of the rampart , as if still in the very act of falling . This great current had performed a course of fifteen miles , before it entered the sea ...
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... prince of Conti , and others . Here he caught the tone of polished society which distin- guishes his writings , and which greatly contributed to his influence . His father was displeased with his mode of life , and entreated the marquis ...
... prince of Conti , and others . Here he caught the tone of polished society which distin- guishes his writings , and which greatly contributed to his influence . His father was displeased with his mode of life , and entreated the marquis ...
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... prince of Prussia , after- scholars , but gave such license to his wit , wards Frederic the Great , who had a that it is said Pope's mother was some- great fondness for French literature . times driven away , by his conversation , When ...
... prince of Prussia , after- scholars , but gave such license to his wit , wards Frederic the Great , who had a that it is said Pope's mother was some- great fondness for French literature . times driven away , by his conversation , When ...
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... prince among his subjects . Here he erected a new and elegant church , with the inscription Deo erexit Voltaire . A decided enemy of tyr- anny and oppression , he afforded aid and protection to many persecuted persons ; among others ...
... prince among his subjects . Here he erected a new and elegant church , with the inscription Deo erexit Voltaire . A decided enemy of tyr- anny and oppression , he afforded aid and protection to many persecuted persons ; among others ...
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Page 147 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst 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 romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
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 - While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and 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.
Page 441 - So the soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the crosses, and crosses
Page 80 - No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright, and his means always pure. He exhibits the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown, and whose professions to foreign governments and to his own countrymen were always sincere. In him was fully exemplified the real distinction which forever exists between wisdom and cunning, and the importance as well as truth of the maxim that
Page 66 - ... 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 the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Page 147 - 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.
Page 477 - 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 174 - A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREVAILING RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS of PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity.
Page 74 - resolved that the thanks of Congress in their own name, and in the name of the Thirteen United Colonies whom they represent, be presented to his Excellency General Washington, and the officers and soldiers under his command, for their wise and spirited conduct in the siege and acquisition of Boston...