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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... returned to Manheim , the residence of his princely patron . In the year 1780 , and the following years , he travelled in Ger- many , France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In ...
... returned to Manheim , the residence of his princely patron . In the year 1780 , and the following years , he travelled in Ger- many , France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In ...
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... returned to France , whence he had been absent more than two years . The fruits of his inquiries appeared in his ... Returning to Paris , he suffered persecution under the reign of terror ; and , after ten months ' im- prisonment , the ...
... returned to France , whence he had been absent more than two years . The fruits of his inquiries appeared in his ... Returning to Paris , he suffered persecution under the reign of terror ; and , after ten months ' im- prisonment , the ...
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... returned to Paris , where he con- of the estate , the marchioness du Chat- tributed much to form the celebrated actor elet ( q . v . ) , and wrote his Elémens de la Lekain . Frederic the Great had hitherto Philosophie de Newton , to ...
... returned to Paris , where he con- of the estate , the marchioness du Chat- tributed much to form the celebrated actor elet ( q . v . ) , and wrote his Elémens de la Lekain . Frederic the Great had hitherto Philosophie de Newton , to ...
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... returned him an answer which , among many flattering remarks , contained the following sentence : " When I read your treatise , I desire to creep upon all - fours . " This ridicule made the author of Emile his irreconcilable enemy ...
... returned him an answer which , among many flattering remarks , contained the following sentence : " When I read your treatise , I desire to creep upon all - fours . " This ridicule made the author of Emile his irreconcilable enemy ...
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... returned to his native country , where he employed himself in the pro- duction of various learned works . In 1670 , he visited England , and was ad- mitted to the degree of LL . D. at Oxford ; and , in 1673 , having been presented to a ...
... returned to his native country , where he employed himself in the pro- duction of various learned works . In 1670 , he visited England , and was ad- mitted to the degree of LL . D. at Oxford ; and , in 1673 , having been presented to a ...
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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