Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; 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, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... the Italian opera in Paris ) Memoir on the Diseases of the trula , read March 7 , ever , in which the lungs are so predomi- 1831 , in the French academy . Thus any roice in animals and men , we refer 12 VOCAL MUSIC - VOICE .
... the Italian opera in Paris ) Memoir on the Diseases of the trula , read March 7 , ever , in which the lungs are so predomi- 1831 , in the French academy . Thus any roice in animals and men , we refer 12 VOCAL MUSIC - VOICE .
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... march from their capital , Derayeh . The Ali , among the beys and mamelukes at camp was stormed September 3 , eighty Cairo , the Wahabees formed a junction pieces of artillery taken , 20,000 soldiers with the relics of them who had fled ...
... march from their capital , Derayeh . The Ali , among the beys and mamelukes at camp was stormed September 3 , eighty Cairo , the Wahabees formed a junction pieces of artillery taken , 20,000 soldiers with the relics of them who had fled ...
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... March tribute to the Porte should be fixed at å 21 , 1816 , reorganizing the institute , named certain sum , beyond which that power him member of the academy of inscripshould claim no further contributions . In tions . In 1823 , he ...
... March tribute to the Porte should be fixed at å 21 , 1816 , reorganizing the institute , named certain sum , beyond which that power him member of the academy of inscripshould claim no further contributions . In tions . In 1823 , he ...
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... March , 1605. His father died during his infancy , leaving him an ample fortune . He was educated at Eton , whence he was removed to King's college , Cambridge . He was chosen member of parliament in knowledge , and devoted to its ...
... March , 1605. His father died during his infancy , leaving him an ample fortune . He was educated at Eton , whence he was removed to King's college , Cambridge . He was chosen member of parliament in knowledge , and devoted to its ...
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... March 18 , 1745 , of the South sea bubble ; and lord Sun- in the sixty - ninth year of bis age . - See derland being obliged to retire , on ac- Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole ( 3 count of his being implicated in the affairs vols ...
... March 18 , 1745 , of the South sea bubble ; and lord Sun- in the sixty - ninth year of bis age . - See derland being obliged to retire , on ac- Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole ( 3 count of his being implicated in the affairs vols ...
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Page 233 - ... 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 481 - Robbery, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy, and Loss of Lands, Goods and Chattels, as Pirates, Felons and Robbers upon the Seas ought to suffer.
Page 473 - 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 473 - 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 170 - 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 70 - 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...
Page 102 - White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
Page 473 - 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 62 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity.
Page 433 - We found the people of the Rio Negro swarthier than those of the lower Orinoco, and yet the banks of the first of these rivers enjoy a much cooler climate than the more northern regions. In the forests of Guiana, especially...