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, Tom 7Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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Strona 28
... contains a university , and a general seminary for Tyrol connected with it , and manufacto- ries of several kinds . The works of art in one of the churches , particularly the statues in bronze of the members of the house of Hapsburg ...
... contains a university , and a general seminary for Tyrol connected with it , and manufacto- ries of several kinds . The works of art in one of the churches , particularly the statues in bronze of the members of the house of Hapsburg ...
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... contain interesting reports of some particular cases . INQUISITION , PROCESS OF . This phrase is used , on the ... containing laws , decrees , treaties , religious legends , moral , philosophical or scientific precepts , chronological ...
... contain interesting reports of some particular cases . INQUISITION , PROCESS OF . This phrase is used , on the ... containing laws , decrees , treaties , religious legends , moral , philosophical or scientific precepts , chronological ...
Strona 51
... contain , he noticed that the metallic vessels , with which he operated , were powerfully cor- roded , and that the ... containing oxygen , or oxides , —were conceived to give great weight to the views of sir H. Davy , and operated ...
... contain , he noticed that the metallic vessels , with which he operated , were powerfully cor- roded , and that the ... containing oxygen , or oxides , —were conceived to give great weight to the views of sir H. Davy , and operated ...
Strona 52
... containing 45000 of its weight of iodine , receives a blue tinge from a solution of starch.- Iodine has a powerful affinity for hydro- gen , which it takes from animal and vege- table substances , in the same manner as chlorine , and ...
... containing 45000 of its weight of iodine , receives a blue tinge from a solution of starch.- Iodine has a powerful affinity for hydro- gen , which it takes from animal and vege- table substances , in the same manner as chlorine , and ...
Strona 54
... containing a number of barren rocks and some high hills , interspersed with fertile plains and valleys . The climate is very mild , but subject to sudden changes . The productions are corn , vines , olives , cur- rants , cotton , honey ...
... containing a number of barren rocks and some high hills , interspersed with fertile plains and valleys . The climate is very mild , but subject to sudden changes . The productions are corn , vines , olives , cur- rants , cotton , honey ...
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Strona 437 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Strona 473 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Strona 368 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Strona 474 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Strona 472 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
Strona 286 - When a sufficient number of persons impanelled, or tales-men, appear, they are then separately sworn well and truly to try the issue between the parties, and a true verdict to give according to the evidence; and hence they are denominated the jury, jurata, and jurors, sc.
Strona 528 - ... which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction; careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth...
Strona 323 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Strona 181 - Apollo* of the Raleigh tavern, formed ourselves into a voluntary convention, drew up articles of association against the use of any merchandise imported from Great Britain, signed and recommended them to the people, repaired to our several counties, and were re-elected without any other exception than of the very few who had declined assent to our proceedings.
Strona 49 - Investitures, in their original rise, were probably intended to demonstrate in conquered countries the actual possession of the lord; and that he did not grant a bare litigious right, which the soldier was ill qualified to prosecute, but a peaceable and firm possession.