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 2Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... tion . His private habits , morals and pur- suits were adapted to endear and dignify his public career . He died at Philadel- phia , May 5 , 1784 , aged 71 years . When it was announced that he was seriously ill , a multitude of his ...
... tion . His private habits , morals and pur- suits were adapted to endear and dignify his public career . He died at Philadel- phia , May 5 , 1784 , aged 71 years . When it was announced that he was seriously ill , a multitude of his ...
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... tion concerning them is yet wanted . Where they live by themselves , and are not spread among the Arabians and other people of the Barbary states , they man- ifest very little cultivation , -warlike nom- ades , without written laws ...
... tion concerning them is yet wanted . Where they live by themselves , and are not spread among the Arabians and other people of the Barbary states , they man- ifest very little cultivation , -warlike nom- ades , without written laws ...
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... tion of the Danish peasantry , who were even then in a state of bondage ; by pro- moting science , and sending an expedi- tion to Asia , which the famous traveller Niebuhr accompanied . He himself set the example of manumitting the ...
... tion of the Danish peasantry , who were even then in a state of bondage ; by pro- moting science , and sending an expedi- tion to Asia , which the famous traveller Niebuhr accompanied . He himself set the example of manumitting the ...
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... tion of betel throughout India , and other parts of the East . The inhabitants chew it almost incessantly , and in such quantity that their lips become quite red , and their teeth black — a color greatly preferred by them to the ...
... tion of betel throughout India , and other parts of the East . The inhabitants chew it almost incessantly , and in such quantity that their lips become quite red , and their teeth black — a color greatly preferred by them to the ...
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... tion ; delivered lectures ( which were nu- merously attended ) on the Epistle to the Romans and the Epistles of Peter ( which served as the basis of his Latin transla- tion of the New Testament , of which he afterwards published several ...
... tion ; delivered lectures ( which were nu- merously attended ) on the Epistle to the Romans and the Epistles of Peter ( which served as the basis of his Latin transla- tion of the New Testament , of which he afterwards published several ...
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