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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... king , usurped the rights of popular representatives , remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and ...
... king , usurped the rights of popular representatives , remained no longer the first class in the state : the old mode of choosing the king , which had thrown the election into their hands , was altered in favor of the bishops ; and ...
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... king Henry VIII . He was also ap- pointed to instruct the princess Mary in polite literature and the Latin language . During his residence at Oxford , he was admitted doctor of laws , and acquired much favor with Henry VIII ; but , ven ...
... king Henry VIII . He was also ap- pointed to instruct the princess Mary in polite literature and the Latin language . During his residence at Oxford , he was admitted doctor of laws , and acquired much favor with Henry VIII ; but , ven ...
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... king George I and the princess of Wales . ance of the writer . Before this time , From this he obtained considerable emol- Voltaire had gained the favor of the court ument . He became acquainted with by a political service . He ...
... king George I and the princess of Wales . ance of the writer . Before this time , From this he obtained considerable emol- Voltaire had gained the favor of the court ument . He became acquainted with by a political service . He ...
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... king the chamberlain's key and the cross of the order which had been conferred on him , with some verses , in which he compared himself to a lover who sends back the portrait of his mis- tress ; but the king soon restored them ...
... king the chamberlain's key and the cross of the order which had been conferred on him , with some verses , in which he compared himself to a lover who sends back the portrait of his mis- tress ; but the king soon restored them ...
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... king of England . It was not completely united with England until the reign of Henry VIII , when the government and ... king's eldest son , is , by inheritance , duke of Com- wall , without any new creation . To com- pass or conspire the ...
... king of England . It was not completely united with England until the reign of Henry VIII , when the government and ... king's eldest son , is , by inheritance , duke of Com- wall , without any new creation . To com- pass or conspire the ...
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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