Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; 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 Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... , and other sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
... , and other sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
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... force - the vapor- still remains to be accounted for . Others have imagined a great depōt of electric matter , pent up in certain submarine and subterranean caverns , and occasionally sallying forth to fuse and blow up the surrounding ...
... force - the vapor- still remains to be accounted for . Others have imagined a great depōt of electric matter , pent up in certain submarine and subterranean caverns , and occasionally sallying forth to fuse and blow up the surrounding ...
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... force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over his nation . Voltaire was born at Chatenay , near Par- is , Feb. 20 , 1694. His father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts ...
... force of his writ- ings , obtain such power over his nation . Voltaire was born at Chatenay , near Par- is , Feb. 20 , 1694. His father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts ...
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... force against him , made him anxious ; but nothing further was done to molest him . The French academy sent three of their members to welcome him , though , in similar cases , it was customary to send but one . The actors waited upon ...
... force against him , made him anxious ; but nothing further was done to molest him . The French academy sent three of their members to welcome him , though , in similar cases , it was customary to send but one . The actors waited upon ...
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... force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- uons of the higher grounds . The Nep- tunists , on the other hand , maintain ...
... force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- uons of the higher grounds . The Nep- tunists , on the other hand , maintain ...
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