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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... latter sometimes appropriated them entirely ; as , for instance , in 1500 , when the govern- ment of the empire took possession of the money collected for the pope on the occasion of the jubilee , and allowed only a third part to the ...
... latter sometimes appropriated them entirely ; as , for instance , in 1500 , when the govern- ment of the empire took possession of the money collected for the pope on the occasion of the jubilee , and allowed only a third part to the ...
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... latter forms the great mass , which is intended to fight in line , to decide attacks by the bayonet , to make assaults , and is itself again divided into grenadiers ( q . v . ) and musketeers . The light infantry is particularly ...
... latter forms the great mass , which is intended to fight in line , to decide attacks by the bayonet , to make assaults , and is itself again divided into grenadiers ( q . v . ) and musketeers . The light infantry is particularly ...
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... latter place , of the distance , is a canal connected with 1100 feet in length , 9 feet high , and hav- Oswego river by locks and dams ; the ing a sloop lock , at its eastern extremity , other half is a slack - water navigation on 114 ...
... latter place , of the distance , is a canal connected with 1100 feet in length , 9 feet high , and hav- Oswego river by locks and dams ; the ing a sloop lock , at its eastern extremity , other half is a slack - water navigation on 114 ...
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... latter , as also of the Catawba river , across North Carolina , to near the source thereof . Dis- tance , by the river channel improvements and lateral canals together , 275 miles.- Santee , Columbia and Saluda canals , from Columbia ...
... latter , as also of the Catawba river , across North Carolina , to near the source thereof . Dis- tance , by the river channel improvements and lateral canals together , 275 miles.- Santee , Columbia and Saluda canals , from Columbia ...
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... latter stream ; navigable only in times of high flood . - Plaquemine canal passes from the Mississippi into bayou Plaquemine , at its efflux from the Mississippi . The mouth of the Plaquemine is closed by a raft of timber , and the ...
... latter stream ; navigable only in times of high flood . - Plaquemine canal passes from the Mississippi into bayou Plaquemine , at its efflux from the Mississippi . The mouth of the Plaquemine is closed by a raft of timber , and the ...
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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.