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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Page 125
... remarkable for his talent for paint- ing , lived at Springfield , began to extend until it reached the ears of Mr. Flower , a justice of Chester , who , having looked at his works , obtained leave from his pa- rents to take him , for a ...
... remarkable for his talent for paint- ing , lived at Springfield , began to extend until it reached the ears of Mr. Flower , a justice of Chester , who , having looked at his works , obtained leave from his pa- rents to take him , for a ...
Page 128
... remarkable for the brilliancy and beauty of their plumage : among them are the parrot , in many varieties , the scarlet fla- mingo , and the glittering humming - bird , with a great number of waterfowl of dif- ferent kinds . Of the ...
... remarkable for the brilliancy and beauty of their plumage : among them are the parrot , in many varieties , the scarlet fla- mingo , and the glittering humming - bird , with a great number of waterfowl of dif- ferent kinds . Of the ...
Page 131
... remarkable for her talents as for her charms , were too well pleased with the power which they exercised over the weak prince , to allow the general an in- fluence which might become dangerous to the favorite . Arcadius himself might ...
... remarkable for her talents as for her charms , were too well pleased with the power which they exercised over the weak prince , to allow the general an in- fluence which might become dangerous to the favorite . Arcadius himself might ...
Page 144
... remarkable contest between hu- man ingenuity and brute force , in which man seems to be chiefly indebted for suc- cess to his own apparent insignificance , to the animal exhausting itself by its own efforts , and to the necessity it is ...
... remarkable contest between hu- man ingenuity and brute force , in which man seems to be chiefly indebted for suc- cess to his own apparent insignificance , to the animal exhausting itself by its own efforts , and to the necessity it is ...
Page 145
... remarkable longi . tudinal folds . The physalus occurs , in great numbers , in the Arctic seas , espe- cially along the edge of the ice between Cherie island and Nova Zembla , and also near Jan Mayen . It is seldom seen among much ice ...
... remarkable longi . tudinal folds . The physalus occurs , in great numbers , in the Arctic seas , espe- cially along the edge of the ice between Cherie island and Nova Zembla , and also near Jan Mayen . It is seldom seen among much ice ...
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