Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time : Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography : on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Том 13Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
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... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
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... duke of Orleans , who made him his master of the ceremonies . In 1634 , he was admitted into the French academy , and was subsequently sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that ...
... duke of Orleans , who made him his master of the ceremonies . In 1634 , he was admitted into the French academy , and was subsequently sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that ...
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... duke of Orleans , being delighted with the Edi- pus , he was allowed to return . His father himself was so much pleased with the rep- resentation of this play , that he embraced his son with tears in his eyes , and from this time left ...
... duke of Orleans , being delighted with the Edi- pus , he was allowed to return . His father himself was so much pleased with the rep- resentation of this play , that he embraced his son with tears in his eyes , and from this time left ...
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... duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar , and laid the foundation of Austria's pow- er . The severe loss which ...
... duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar , and laid the foundation of Austria's pow- er . The severe loss which ...
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Стр. 145 - is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Стр. 145 - led the way into the Pacific seas. " Look at the manner," says Burke (1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's
Стр. 145 - Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry.
Стр. 491 - in the city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware-house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, provided such person shall have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes.
Стр. 384 - contracting powers express their "regrets that their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of all the Russias, are not prepared to concur in active measures to carry the treaty into
Стр. 465 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although
Стр. 194 - yet more Bloody, by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White. In these works of Williams, the doctrine of religious liberty and unlimited toleration are illustrated in strong language, and supported by stronger arguments—arguments that preceded those of Locke, Bayle and Furneau.
Стр. 64 - which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate
Стр. 64 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed
Стр. 264 - that, if any person escaped alive out of the ship, it should be no wreck: and, after various modifications, it was decided, in the reign of Henry III, that if goods were cast on shore, having any marks by which they could be identified, they were to revert to the