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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... body itthis gave rise , that an attempt was made self , or by violent mental excitements , into adjust the quarrel by duel and fire- fluencing the physical functions , which , ordeal . Even after the Roman liturgy in turn , react upon ...
... body itthis gave rise , that an attempt was made self , or by violent mental excitements , into adjust the quarrel by duel and fire- fluencing the physical functions , which , ordeal . Even after the Roman liturgy in turn , react upon ...
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... body . navigation is very important , as the prodIt is a state bordering closely upon dream- ucts of Poland — wood , grain , & c . --are ing , though the vision occurs while the transported on it to Dantzic , on the Balperson is in the ...
... body . navigation is very important , as the prodIt is a state bordering closely upon dream- ucts of Poland — wood , grain , & c . --are ing , though the vision occurs while the transported on it to Dantzic , on the Balperson is in the ...
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... body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year , except twelve days . VITERBO ( anciently Volturna ) ; a town of Italy , in the States of the Church , cap- ital of a delegation , formerly ...
... body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year , except twelve days . VITERBO ( anciently Volturna ) ; a town of Italy , in the States of the Church , cap- ital of a delegation , formerly ...
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... body , are , at different times and in difchain of gentle hills , on their right Vitto- ferent instances , affected by it . In this ria , in front the rivulet of Zadora . On state , the patient does not walk steadily : the 20th ...
... body , are , at different times and in difchain of gentle hills , on their right Vitto- ferent instances , affected by it . In this ria , in front the rivulet of Zadora . On state , the patient does not walk steadily : the 20th ...
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... body of sounds produced diseases in singers , orators , and others acby the organs of ' respiration , especially customed to great exertion of the vocal the larynx of men or animals . It can , organs . * The voice of men and animals ...
... body of sounds produced diseases in singers , orators , and others acby the organs of ' respiration , especially customed to great exertion of the vocal the larynx of men or animals . It can , organs . * The voice of men and animals ...
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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.
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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.
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