The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Svazek 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... remarkable for the thorough- ness with which the text has been revised from original MSS . , and many of them contain docu- ments from old libraries which had not before been discovered . One of the most acceptable fruits of his ...
... remarkable for the thorough- ness with which the text has been revised from original MSS . , and many of them contain docu- ments from old libraries which had not before been discovered . One of the most acceptable fruits of his ...
Strana 27
... remarkable of its kind as his frescoes of the chapel at Versailles . III . NOËL NICOLAS , stepbrother of the preceding , born in 1692 , died in 1735 , also painted many works for the churches of Paris , of which the best are the ceiling ...
... remarkable of its kind as his frescoes of the chapel at Versailles . III . NOËL NICOLAS , stepbrother of the preceding , born in 1692 , died in 1735 , also painted many works for the churches of Paris , of which the best are the ceiling ...
Strana 40
... remarkable for the beauty , force , and passion with which they treat religious sub- jects . He has also left some miscellaneous poems of remarkable beauty . One of the finest of Cow- ley's compositions is a monody on his death ...
... remarkable for the beauty , force , and passion with which they treat religious sub- jects . He has also left some miscellaneous poems of remarkable beauty . One of the finest of Cow- ley's compositions is a monody on his death ...
Strana 44
... remarkable for its agricultural productions than for its great min- eral wealth . The hills contain very rich mines of copper and iron , the latter being extensively worked . Lead is also found in various locali- ties , and stone is ...
... remarkable for its agricultural productions than for its great min- eral wealth . The hills contain very rich mines of copper and iron , the latter being extensively worked . Lead is also found in various locali- ties , and stone is ...
Strana 45
... remarkable for the spirit and propriety of their treatment . His industry seemed to increase with the favorable turn in his fortunes . He fitted up large studios in the piaz- za Barberini , which soon became a favorite re- sort of ...
... remarkable for the spirit and propriety of their treatment . His industry seemed to increase with the favorable turn in his fortunes . He fitted up large studios in the piaz- za Barberini , which soon became a favorite re- sort of ...
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Strana 195 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Strana 314 - Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Strana 319 - Certificates of discharge, however, granted under such a law, cannot be pleaded in bar of an action brought by a citizen of another State in the courts of the United States, or of any other State than that where the discharge was obtained...
Strana 195 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Strana 114 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps...
Strana 330 - The legislature has declared that "no covenant shall be implied in any conveyance of real estate, whether such conveyance contain special covenants or not.
Strana 314 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Strana 366 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Strana 60 - ... whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages : Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this either in verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant.
Strana 320 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.