The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Svazek 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... soon conferred not only on persons of the palace , or companions of the prince , but also on most kinds of higher officers . These dignitaries , according to Eusebius , were divided into 3 classes , of which the first received the ...
... soon conferred not only on persons of the palace , or companions of the prince , but also on most kinds of higher officers . These dignitaries , according to Eusebius , were divided into 3 classes , of which the first received the ...
Strana 23
... soon became the decided leader of the home circuit , with a large practice in the court of chancery . He entered parlia ment as a whig in 1695 , and gained by his maiden speech the reputation of a consummate debater . The whig party ...
... soon became the decided leader of the home circuit , with a large practice in the court of chancery . He entered parlia ment as a whig in 1695 , and gained by his maiden speech the reputation of a consummate debater . The whig party ...
Strana 28
... soon after repaired to London to pursue his medical studies , but returned within a year , with his pecuniary resources exhausted . Never pleased with his profession , he soon determined to abandon it for literary adventure in London ...
... soon after repaired to London to pursue his medical studies , but returned within a year , with his pecuniary resources exhausted . Never pleased with his profession , he soon determined to abandon it for literary adventure in London ...
Strana 30
... soon annihilated the hopes of the friends of Poland . Three armies were approaching . Thus pressed , the small body of Poles surrendered to the Prussians ( March 3 ) , and the republic of Cracow was soon after annexed to Austria by a ...
... soon annihilated the hopes of the friends of Poland . Three armies were approaching . Thus pressed , the small body of Poles surrendered to the Prussians ( March 3 ) , and the republic of Cracow was soon after annexed to Austria by a ...
Strana 36
... soon afterward . In 1841 he was appointed navy commissioner , and in 1842 , when the navy department was reorganized , was made chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography , which he administered until near his death . rolls around ...
... soon afterward . In 1841 he was appointed navy commissioner , and in 1842 , when the navy department was reorganized , was made chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography , which he administered until near his death . rolls around ...
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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.