The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volum 8George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... appointed by the legislature to explore the route of an inland navigation from the Hudson river to the lakes ; and in 1814 he addressed a letter to the president of the board illustrating the advantages of the proposed canal . He also ...
... appointed by the legislature to explore the route of an inland navigation from the Hudson river to the lakes ; and in 1814 he addressed a letter to the president of the board illustrating the advantages of the proposed canal . He also ...
Side 37
... Appointed a lieutenant in the engineer corps , he was variously en- gaged in Canada and New York , and after the peace was selected as aide - de - camp of Gen. Jackson in the expedition to examine and report upon the military defences ...
... Appointed a lieutenant in the engineer corps , he was variously en- gaged in Canada and New York , and after the peace was selected as aide - de - camp of Gen. Jackson in the expedition to examine and report upon the military defences ...
Side 39
... appointed to super- sede Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts , he arrived in Boston , May 17 , 1774 , while the people of that colony were preparing to resist the port act framed for their chastisement . But he was qualified neither ...
... appointed to super- sede Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts , he arrived in Boston , May 17 , 1774 , while the people of that colony were preparing to resist the port act framed for their chastisement . But he was qualified neither ...
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... appointed Cæsar in 292 by Dio- cletian , whose daughter he married . Receiving Thrace and Macedonia for his province , he was defeated by the Persian king Narses , but was so disdainfully received by the emperor at An- tioch on his ...
... appointed Cæsar in 292 by Dio- cletian , whose daughter he married . Receiving Thrace and Macedonia for his province , he was defeated by the Persian king Narses , but was so disdainfully received by the emperor at An- tioch on his ...
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... appointed him for 6 years more , and raised his salary to 320 florins . In 1604 , a new star of remarkable brilliancy having appeared in the constellation Serpentarius , he attacked In 1606 the popular notion that it was a meteor , and ...
... appointed him for 6 years more , and raised his salary to 320 florins . In 1604 , a new star of remarkable brilliancy having appeared in the constellation Serpentarius , he attacked In 1606 the popular notion that it was a meteor , and ...
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Side 241 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Side 68 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Side 142 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Side 239 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Side 90 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Side 56 - County as a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the State.
Side 241 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Side 90 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors,
Side 246 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution.
Side 268 - Imagine now in the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface.