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 12Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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Side 41
... known of the circumstances of his life . He distinguished himself as an advocate , obtained the tribuneship through the influence of Pliny the younger , and was appointed secretary ( magister episto- larum ) to the emperor Adrian . From ...
... known of the circumstances of his life . He distinguished himself as an advocate , obtained the tribuneship through the influence of Pliny the younger , and was appointed secretary ( magister episto- larum ) to the emperor Adrian . From ...
Side 43
... known under the name of Sufi , wrote a History of the most fa- mous Sheiks of the Order of the Dervises ( Nacshbendi ) in the year 1503 ( Hegira 909 ) . The order of Nacshbendi origin- ated , indeed , as late as the time of sultan Osman ...
... known under the name of Sufi , wrote a History of the most fa- mous Sheiks of the Order of the Dervises ( Nacshbendi ) in the year 1503 ( Hegira 909 ) . The order of Nacshbendi origin- ated , indeed , as late as the time of sultan Osman ...
Side 45
... known in England chiefly as a med- icine ; and , though cultivated in a few places on the Mediterranean , it was not more generally used on the continent . Now , in point of importance , it ranks next to wheat and rice , among all the ...
... known in England chiefly as a med- icine ; and , though cultivated in a few places on the Mediterranean , it was not more generally used on the continent . Now , in point of importance , it ranks next to wheat and rice , among all the ...
Side 48
... known to require relation . He rais- ed the siege , and was pursued by the en- emy , whom he repulsed . The next day he passed over to the continent , without the slightest suspicion , on the part of the British , of his movements . In ...
... known to require relation . He rais- ed the siege , and was pursued by the en- emy , whom he repulsed . The next day he passed over to the continent , without the slightest suspicion , on the part of the British , of his movements . In ...
Side 54
... known , and produces a greater degree of cold by its evaporation than any other substance . It takes fire in the open air , at a temperature scarcely above 620 ° . It is scarcely soluble in water ; but alcohol and ether dissolve it ...
... known , and produces a greater degree of cold by its evaporation than any other substance . It takes fire in the open air , at a temperature scarcely above 620 ° . It is scarcely soluble in water ; but alcohol and ether dissolve it ...
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Side 64 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Side 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Side 420 - ... since the commencement of the war, it will, in the opinion of this convention, be expedient for the legislatures of the several states to appoint delegates to another convention, to meet at Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, on the third Thursday of June next, with such powers and instructions as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require.
Side 411 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Side 71 - England, at different periods, towards the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, and spread very extensively in the neighboring countries, and 011 the continent.
Side 303 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Side 124 - A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery- tale of the subsequent ages.
Side 447 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured.
Side 411 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic...
Side 421 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...