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, Volum 9Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... America . Colonel Monroe retir- ed from the office of president at the end of his second term . In the late stages of his life , he was associated with the ex- presidents Jefferson and Madison , in founding and regulating the university ...
... America . Colonel Monroe retir- ed from the office of president at the end of his second term . In the late stages of his life , he was associated with the ex- presidents Jefferson and Madison , in founding and regulating the university ...
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... America , between Brazil on the east and north , Paraguay on the north - west , and Buenos Ayres on the west , washed by the Uruguay , the Rio de la Plata , and the Atlantic . It was declar- ed an independent republic , by a treaty ...
... America , between Brazil on the east and north , Paraguay on the north - west , and Buenos Ayres on the west , washed by the Uruguay , the Rio de la Plata , and the Atlantic . It was declar- ed an independent republic , by a treaty ...
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... America , for which country he enter- tained a deep affection , purchased an estate in New York , about 100 miles from the city , and married a daughter of judge Livingston . His feelings in favor of Amer- ica were so well known , that ...
... America , for which country he enter- tained a deep affection , purchased an estate in New York , about 100 miles from the city , and married a daughter of judge Livingston . His feelings in favor of Amer- ica were so well known , that ...
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... America , on condition that he would not return to France without permission from the government . He accordingly em- barked at Cadiz , in 1805 , and safely reached America , where he bought a fine estate , near Morrisville , on the ...
... America , on condition that he would not return to France without permission from the government . He accordingly em- barked at Cadiz , in 1805 , and safely reached America , where he bought a fine estate , near Morrisville , on the ...
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... America , and caused him to follow at the age of thirteen . He received only an English education , and , before he reached his fifteenth year , was placed in the counting - house of Mr. Charles Willing , at that time one of the first ...
... America , and caused him to follow at the age of thirteen . He received only an English education , and , before he reached his fifteenth year , was placed in the counting - house of Mr. Charles Willing , at that time one of the first ...
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Side 239 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken for the glory of GOD, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of GOD and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Side 274 - Francis' tavern ; soon after which their beloved commander entered the room. His emotions were too strong to be concealed. Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, ' With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Side 273 - Higansets, abutting upon .the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river; together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Side 412 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Side 230 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Side 481 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. But glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile : for there is no respect of persons with God.
Side 218 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Side 453 - Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.
Side 188 - Christ, as a living witness of the divine power of Christianity ; as a school of Christian experience ; a voice, sounding through the ages, of instruction, of doctrine, and of reproof, for all who are disposed to listen ; this, from the earliest period, has been the leading aim of my life and studies.
Side 29 - I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even imagination, passion, and invention, between the little Queen Anne's man and us of the Lower Empire.