The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volum 8George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... period also are referred his patented machines for spinning flax and for making ropes , and the invention of an excavator for scooping out the channels of canals and aqueducts . In 1795 he contributed some essays on the subject of ...
... period also are referred his patented machines for spinning flax and for making ropes , and the invention of an excavator for scooping out the channels of canals and aqueducts . In 1795 he contributed some essays on the subject of ...
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... periods re- garded the clothing as that of barbarous times and people , associating it with the habits of the rude ... period from more northern regions . The fur of the beaver was in use , either in the skin or for manufacturing ...
... periods re- garded the clothing as that of barbarous times and people , associating it with the habits of the rude ... period from more northern regions . The fur of the beaver was in use , either in the skin or for manufacturing ...
Side 48
... period that he began a friendly correspondence with Kepler , which continued until the death of the latter ; and about the same time sp- peared a treatise on the sphere after the Ptole maic system , which has been attributed to Galileo ...
... period that he began a friendly correspondence with Kepler , which continued until the death of the latter ; and about the same time sp- peared a treatise on the sphere after the Ptole maic system , which has been attributed to Galileo ...
Side 57
... period he was twice deputed on special missions of importance , to the Netherlands in 1817 and to England in 1818. While in this office he rendered some es- sential service to Mr. Alexander Baring in the negotiation of a loan for the ...
... period he was twice deputed on special missions of importance , to the Netherlands in 1817 and to England in 1818. While in this office he rendered some es- sential service to Mr. Alexander Baring in the negotiation of a loan for the ...
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... periods , down to the cretaceous epoch , when ordinary bony fishes were brought into existence - the age of these 2 ... period , and were re- markable both for their formidable offensive weapons , and their strong defensive armor . This ...
... periods , down to the cretaceous epoch , when ordinary bony fishes were brought into existence - the age of these 2 ... period , and were re- markable both for their formidable offensive weapons , and their strong defensive armor . This ...
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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.