Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Svazek 11Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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Strana 7
... common principle , therefore , of weighing the evil to be risked against the good to be gained , by a political revolution , needs to be strongly impressed upon every peo- ple in a state of political excitement . REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL ...
... common principle , therefore , of weighing the evil to be risked against the good to be gained , by a political revolution , needs to be strongly impressed upon every peo- ple in a state of political excitement . REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL ...
Strana 20
... common with other arctic plants , is found , within the U. States , only on the summits of the White mountains of New Hampshire . An Oriental species , some- times seen in our green - houses , resembling the R. maximum , but with ...
... common with other arctic plants , is found , within the U. States , only on the summits of the White mountains of New Hampshire . An Oriental species , some- times seen in our green - houses , resembling the R. maximum , but with ...
Strana 33
... common courtier . RICHELIEU , Louis François Armand du Plessis , duke de , marshal of France , member of the French academy , and of the academy of sciences , was born at Paris in 1696. His handsome person , his vivaci- ty , and his wit ...
... common courtier . RICHELIEU , Louis François Armand du Plessis , duke de , marshal of France , member of the French academy , and of the academy of sciences , was born at Paris in 1696. His handsome person , his vivaci- ty , and his wit ...
Strana 36
... common beach sand and gravel stones worn smooth , and these are intermixed with small shells . Its general width is from four to eight rods , and it is raised in the middle with a handsome crowning arch , from six to ten feet . Its ...
... common beach sand and gravel stones worn smooth , and these are intermixed with small shells . Its general width is from four to eight rods , and it is raised in the middle with a handsome crowning arch , from six to ten feet . Its ...
Strana 37
... common people as an extraordinary per- son , destined to rescue them from the tyranny of the aristocracy , which , on the removal of the popes to Avignon , had become in the highest degree insolent and oppressive . He obtained the post ...
... common people as an extraordinary per- son , destined to rescue them from the tyranny of the aristocracy , which , on the removal of the popes to Avignon , had become in the highest degree insolent and oppressive . He obtained the post ...
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Strana 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Strana 433 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Strana 433 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Strana 40 - A riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Strana 416 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to approach nearer to his offence.
Strana 434 - The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and [were] stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day. As they belonged to and were shipped on account of different individuals, they were all branded like sheep with the owner's marks of different forms. These were impressed under their breasts or on their arms and, as the mate informed me...
Strana 435 - ... scrambling out together to taste the luxury of a little fresh air and water. They came swarming up, like bees from the aperture of a hive, till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation, from stem to stern ; so that it was impossible to imagine where they could all have come from, or how they could have been stowed away.
Strana 167 - Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be had and retained particularly in temples, and that due honour and veneration are to be given them...
Strana 51 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
Strana 433 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...