Encyclopędia 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, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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Page 10
... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
Page 12
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
Page 16
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
Page 31
... less than impious , which assume that the Deity can be made to deviate from the path pre- scribed by infinite wisdom for the con- sideration of a promise which can have no meaning except between finite beings . The pope has the power ...
... less than impious , which assume that the Deity can be made to deviate from the path pre- scribed by infinite wisdom for the con- sideration of a promise which can have no meaning except between finite beings . The pope has the power ...
Page 33
... less deprived of feath- ers , and covered with short and scattering down . The beak is straight , more or less stout , and the superior mandible curved at the extremity . Their wings are very long and pointed , and their flight ...
... less deprived of feath- ers , and covered with short and scattering down . The beak is straight , more or less stout , and the superior mandible curved at the extremity . Their wings are very long and pointed , and their flight ...
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