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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... remained , as to make this disproportionate to the preceding parts . Under these circumstances , it became indispensable to publish a thirteenth volume ; and we have taken the opportunity thus afforded to furnish a number of supple ...
... remained , as to make this disproportionate to the preceding parts . Under these circumstances , it became indispensable to publish a thirteenth volume ; and we have taken the opportunity thus afforded to furnish a number of supple ...
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... remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and under weak kings , who often attained the crown by ...
... remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and under weak kings , who often attained the crown by ...
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... remained , for the rest of his life , as a have seats in the divan . Men acquainted teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in with the laws , and such as have already 1541. His works were printed at Basle held offices of importance ...
... remained , for the rest of his life , as a have seats in the divan . Men acquainted teacher of the belles - lettres . He died in with the laws , and such as have already 1541. His works were printed at Basle held offices of importance ...
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... remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ; and the sound was increased by a ...
... remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ; and the sound was increased by a ...
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... remained at Misenum , and has given us , in his Let- ters , a lively description of the awful scene . A dense column of vapor was first seen rising vertically from Vesuvius , and then spreading itself out laterally , so that its upper ...
... remained at Misenum , and has given us , in his Let- ters , a lively description of the awful scene . A dense column of vapor was first seen rising vertically from Vesuvius , and then spreading itself out laterally , so that its upper ...
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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...