American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Tom 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... nearly 40,000 men , were placed under the command of Lord Hunsdon , ready to defend the queen's person , or to march wherever the enemy should appear . The King of Scotland avowed his adherence to Elizabeth , and his readiness to march ...
... nearly 40,000 men , were placed under the command of Lord Hunsdon , ready to defend the queen's person , or to march wherever the enemy should appear . The King of Scotland avowed his adherence to Elizabeth , and his readiness to march ...
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... nearly equal to the extent of their front ; and the same holds of the squadrons , which are about three hundred feet distant , the extent of their own front . These intervals are left for the squadrons and battalions of the se- cond ...
... nearly equal to the extent of their front ; and the same holds of the squadrons , which are about three hundred feet distant , the extent of their own front . These intervals are left for the squadrons and battalions of the se- cond ...
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... nearly of the length of the umbel , and have three spines or setæ at their extremities : the partial in- volucrum is composed of two or three leaves , and turns outward : the general corolla is difform , and radiated ; the sin- gle ...
... nearly of the length of the umbel , and have three spines or setæ at their extremities : the partial in- volucrum is composed of two or three leaves , and turns outward : the general corolla is difform , and radiated ; the sin- gle ...
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... nearly two months in drawing it about 150 miles from Adrianople ; and it could be only charged and discharged seven times each day . We find that , at no very remote period , the chief reliance in war continued to be placed in other ...
... nearly two months in drawing it about 150 miles from Adrianople ; and it could be only charged and discharged seven times each day . We find that , at no very remote period , the chief reliance in war continued to be placed in other ...
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... nearly of the same height , but that the branches begin to strike out from the trunk much lower , and with greater luxuriance ; and that the climate of these islands differs very little from that of the West Indian Islands , which lie ...
... nearly of the same height , but that the branches begin to strike out from the trunk much lower , and with greater luxuriance ; and that the climate of these islands differs very little from that of the West Indian Islands , which lie ...
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Strona 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Strona 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...