Encyclopædia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Svazek 11Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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Strana 9
... person comes in immediate contact with the string . The bipolar cylinder consists of a body having two poles , and easily moved , as , for instance , a magnetic needle , or a cylindrical bar , of two different metals ; any light ...
... person comes in immediate contact with the string . The bipolar cylinder consists of a body having two poles , and easily moved , as , for instance , a magnetic needle , or a cylindrical bar , of two different metals ; any light ...
Strana 14
... person received the mantle , by the authority of the president of the department of eloquence , to whom he paid a large fee for this permission . With the mantle , the initiated person received the dignity and name of a sophist . They ...
... person received the mantle , by the authority of the president of the department of eloquence , to whom he paid a large fee for this permission . With the mantle , the initiated person received the dignity and name of a sophist . They ...
Strana 15
... person having been once attacked with it , is ever afterwards more or less liable to returns of it . Neither is the ... persons of all ages ; but very young people are less subject to it than adults . Obstructed perspiration , occasion ...
... person having been once attacked with it , is ever afterwards more or less liable to returns of it . Neither is the ... persons of all ages ; but very young people are less subject to it than adults . Obstructed perspiration , occasion ...
Strana 23
... persons to think they were compos- ing poetry , whilst they were only rhyming ; and were it not for rhyme , we might have been saved from a flood of insipid verse , which has so long overspread the field of literature . ( See Sonnet ...
... persons to think they were compos- ing poetry , whilst they were only rhyming ; and were it not for rhyme , we might have been saved from a flood of insipid verse , which has so long overspread the field of literature . ( See Sonnet ...
Strana 34
... persons lost their lives in the conflagration . An elegant episcopal church , of brick , called the Monumental church , has since been erected on the spot , with a monument in front , commemora- tive of the melancholy event . RICHMOND ...
... persons lost their lives in the conflagration . An elegant episcopal church , of brick , called the Monumental church , has since been erected on the spot , with a monument in front , commemora- tive of the melancholy event . RICHMOND ...
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Strana 187 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Strana 425 - 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 38 - 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 425 - 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...
Strana 14 - ... for commerce, science, and works of strength, which furnish protection to Germany, are also famous as the seats of Roman colonies, and of ecclesiastical councils, and are associated with many of the most important events recorded in the history of mankind...
Strana 526 - Bibliotheca Spenceriana ; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions in the library of George John, Earl Spencer, KG ac.&c.&c.
Strana 383 - Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily.
Strana 108 - ... multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first for the answer, which will always be of the same denomination M the third term.
Strana 529 - You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No.' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything about Woman.' 'When you say Man,' said Oedipus, 'you include women too. Everyone knows that.
Strana 338 - It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and age, down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal truth; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations, and...