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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... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
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... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
... less destructive than it would otherwise have been , and the remains of the French army were enabled to rally at the foot of the Pyrenees , where Soult put them again in order , and strove to oppose Wellington , who was prevented also ...
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... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
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... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
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... less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time ...
... less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time ...
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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