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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... head of the Roman legions in Ger- many when Otho was proclaimed empe ror , and was likewise invested with the purple by his soldiers . He accepted the office , and instantly marched against Otho . After losing three battles , he was ...
... head of the Roman legions in Ger- many when Otho was proclaimed empe ror , and was likewise invested with the purple by his soldiers . He accepted the office , and instantly marched against Otho . After losing three battles , he was ...
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... head of a body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were set on the establishment of a liberal government , and not on a change of masters , he was again forced to ...
... head of a body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were set on the establishment of a liberal government , and not on a change of masters , he was again forced to ...
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... head and the trunk of the body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent instances , affected by it . In this state , the patient does not walk steadily : his gait resembles jumping or starting : he sometimes cannot walk , and seems ...
... head and the trunk of the body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent instances , affected by it . In this state , the patient does not walk steadily : his gait resembles jumping or starting : he sometimes cannot walk , and seems ...
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... head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro- curing engravings of Raphael's works in the Vatican . The drawings of the Spanish painter La Veja , in eighty sheets , which had been prepared by a labor of ...
... head of whom was Ercole Bonajuti , had been formed for the purpose of pro- curing engravings of Raphael's works in the Vatican . The drawings of the Spanish painter La Veja , in eighty sheets , which had been prepared by a labor of ...
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... head , while he holds a ham- mer and pincers in his hand . The Egyp tians represented him under the figure of a monkey . Vulcan received many other names , among which the most com- mon is Mulciber . He was father of Cu- pid by Venus ...
... head , while he holds a ham- mer and pincers in his hand . The Egyp tians represented him under the figure of a monkey . Vulcan received many other names , among which the most com- mon is Mulciber . He was father of Cu- pid by Venus ...
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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