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, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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Strana 15
... river of Europe , and one of the noblest rivers in the world . There are rivers whose course is longer , and whose volume of water is greater , but none which unites almost every thing that can renderan earth- ly object magnificent and ...
... river of Europe , and one of the noblest rivers in the world . There are rivers whose course is longer , and whose volume of water is greater , but none which unites almost every thing that can renderan earth- ly object magnificent and ...
Strana 16
... river whose waters offer choice fish , as its banks offer the choicest wines ; which , in its course of 900 miles , affords 630 miles of uninter- rupted navigation , from Båsle to the sea , and enables the inhabitants of its banks to ...
... river whose waters offer choice fish , as its banks offer the choicest wines ; which , in its course of 900 miles , affords 630 miles of uninter- rupted navigation , from Båsle to the sea , and enables the inhabitants of its banks to ...
Strana 17
... river is about sev- en feet a mile ; its current runs about 288 feet in a minute , or about three and a third miles per hour . Vessels of from 300 to 450 tons go up the river to Cologne , those of 125 to 200 to Mentz , those of 100 to ...
... river is about sev- en feet a mile ; its current runs about 288 feet in a minute , or about three and a third miles per hour . Vessels of from 300 to 450 tons go up the river to Cologne , those of 125 to 200 to Mentz , those of 100 to ...
Strana 20
... river of Europe . The navigation down the stream is easy , but the upward can be performed only by draught or steam . ( See Canals . ) It carries down large quantities of earth , which it deposits at its mouth . Below Lacluse , the river ...
... river of Europe . The navigation down the stream is easy , but the upward can be performed only by draught or steam . ( See Canals . ) It carries down large quantities of earth , which it deposits at its mouth . Below Lacluse , the river ...
Strana 24
... river used in over- flowing it . After the waters of the inun- dation have withdrawn , a few days are allowed for the mud to become partially dry ; then a small spot is enclosed by an embankment , lightly ploughed and har- rowed , and ...
... river used in over- flowing it . After the waters of the inun- dation have withdrawn , a few days are allowed for the mud to become partially dry ; then a small spot is enclosed by an embankment , lightly ploughed and har- rowed , and ...
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Strana 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Strana 433 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 40 - ... 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 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, capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 260 - On the approach of Burgoyne, in 1777, he made every exertion to obstruct his progress ; but the evacuation of Ticonderoga by .St. Clair, occasioning unreasonable jealousies in regard to Schuyler, in New England, he was superseded by Gates, in August, and Congress directed an inquiry to be made into his conduct.
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 110 - ... 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 433 - States, shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and abet in forcibly confining or detaining, on board such ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto not held to service by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States...
Strana 461 - When I heard Pericles, or any other great orator, I was entertained and delighted, and I felt that he had spoken well. But no mortal speech has ever excited in my mind such emotions as are kindled by this magician. Whenever I hear him, I am, as it were, charmed and fettered. My heart leaps like an inspired Corybant. My inmost soul is stung by his words, as by the bite of a serpent; it is indignant at its own rude and ignoble character. I often weep tears of regret, and think how vain and inglorious...
Strana 114 - Philadelphia, and when, in 1791, the college was merged in the university of Pennsylvania, he was appointed professor of the institutes and practice of medicine, and of clinical practice.