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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... length along the coast , and 115 in depth . The river is navigable , for vessels of 200 tons , to the province of Lahore , a distance of 760 ge- ographical miles . From Attack to the Delta , a distance of about 800 miles , its breadth ...
... length along the coast , and 115 in depth . The river is navigable , for vessels of 200 tons , to the province of Lahore , a distance of 760 ge- ographical miles . From Attack to the Delta , a distance of about 800 miles , its breadth ...
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... length . He main- tains , that the pope is by no means infalli- ble , and that a papal decision is not to be considered infallible until the church ac- quiesces in it , which , he admits , may be done , in general , silently . - In ...
... length . He main- tains , that the pope is by no means infalli- ble , and that a papal decision is not to be considered infallible until the church ac- quiesces in it , which , he admits , may be done , in general , silently . - In ...
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... length to which the allegory is protracted , though it contains real beauties . Masaniello and Blanca are Ingemann's most celebrated tragedies . He has also written much in prose . INGENHOUSS , John , a naturalist , born at Breda , in ...
... length to which the allegory is protracted , though it contains real beauties . Masaniello and Blanca are Ingemann's most celebrated tragedies . He has also written much in prose . INGENHOUSS , John , a naturalist , born at Breda , in ...
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... length is 41 miles ; its breadth at the surface 58 feet , at the bottom 26 feet , and its depth 8 feet . This line of navigation passes from the mouth of Ouse river , on lake Erie , north - eastward , to strike at a point of the Welland ...
... length is 41 miles ; its breadth at the surface 58 feet , at the bottom 26 feet , and its depth 8 feet . This line of navigation passes from the mouth of Ouse river , on lake Erie , north - eastward , to strike at a point of the Welland ...
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... length is mile ; the lockage 25 feet . Its dimensions , and the size of the locks , correspond to those of the Middlesex canal , being designed to pass the same boats . It passes a fall in the Merrimack of 25 feet , with 4 locks . A dam ...
... length is mile ; the lockage 25 feet . Its dimensions , and the size of the locks , correspond to those of the Middlesex canal , being designed to pass the same boats . It passes a fall in the Merrimack of 25 feet , with 4 locks . A dam ...
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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.
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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.