Encyclopaedia 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, Tom 7Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... gave alms for effecting some good work ( e . g . , the restoration of a church , & c . ) , or performed some prescrib- ed labor of piety ( the visiting of a church , for instance ) at the time of the jubilee , which was established by ...
... gave alms for effecting some good work ( e . g . , the restoration of a church , & c . ) , or performed some prescrib- ed labor of piety ( the visiting of a church , for instance ) at the time of the jubilee , which was established by ...
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... gave less security , or , at least , as credit and confidence were not so widely diffused , and correspond- ence was less extensive among merchants , it was usual for the lender to send some person with the property , to receive re ...
... gave less security , or , at least , as credit and confidence were not so widely diffused , and correspond- ence was less extensive among merchants , it was usual for the lender to send some person with the property , to receive re ...
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... gave a population of 218,000 : at present , it amounts to about 227,000 , of whom about 8000 are Italians , and 7000 Jews . There are also some English there . The inhabitants are in general su- perstitious , and their morals are lax ...
... gave a population of 218,000 : at present , it amounts to about 227,000 , of whom about 8000 are Italians , and 7000 Jews . There are also some English there . The inhabitants are in general su- perstitious , and their morals are lax ...
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... gave 6,846,999 as the total population ; and , ac- cording to estimates formed by M. Moreau , in 1827 , it amounted to 7,672,000 . A cal- culation , founded chiefly on returns from schools , gives 1,970,000 Protestants ( of whom 700,000 ...
... gave 6,846,999 as the total population ; and , ac- cording to estimates formed by M. Moreau , in 1827 , it amounted to 7,672,000 . A cal- culation , founded chiefly on returns from schools , gives 1,970,000 Protestants ( of whom 700,000 ...
Strona 85
... gave him to his mother for safe - keeping . She set him at liberty , on which account Horus tore the crown from her head , instead of which Mercury gave her an ox's head . As the goddess of fecundity , and the uni- versal benefactress ...
... gave him to his mother for safe - keeping . She set him at liberty , on which account Horus tore the crown from her head , instead of which Mercury gave her an ox's head . As the goddess of fecundity , and the uni- versal benefactress ...
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Strona 528 - ... 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 so scrupulous that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves, with all these qualifications as if selected and implanted by nature in one body, for this express purpose, I could have no hesitation in confiding the enterprise to him.
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 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
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 472 - In his dying moments he fancied himself on the field of battle. The last words he was heard to utter were, " Stand by me, my brave grenadiers ! " He left a will and testament strongly marked by his peculiarities.
Strona 287 - Challenges to the array are at once an exception to the whole panel, in which the jury are arrayed or set in order by the sheriff in his return ; and they may be made upon account of partiality or some default in the sheriff, or his under-officer who arrayed the panel.
Strona 353 - In the year 1680, a kraken, perhaps a young and careless one, came into the water that runs between the rocks and cliffs in the parish of Alstahoug, though the general custom of that creature is to keep always several leagues from land, and therefore, of course, they must die there.
Strona 260 - Thapsua, and totally abandoned by his subjects. He killed himself, with Petreius, who had shared his good fortune and his adversity, AUC 707.
Strona 257 - It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us : a year impairs ; a lustre obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory.