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, Volumen13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... sides of the Pyrenees . He reached Barcelona , where he was murdered , in 415 ; but his suc- cessors , in the midst of perpetual con- flicts with the previous occupants and with the Romans , founded in the south of France and in Spain ...
... sides of the Pyrenees . He reached Barcelona , where he was murdered , in 415 ; but his suc- cessors , in the midst of perpetual con- flicts with the previous occupants and with the Romans , founded in the south of France and in Spain ...
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... sides these , there are at Constantinople six viziers , called viziers of the bench ( i . e . of the council of state ) , because they have seats in the divan . Men acquainted with the laws , and such as have already held offices of ...
... sides these , there are at Constantinople six viziers , called viziers of the bench ( i . e . of the council of state ) , because they have seats in the divan . Men acquainted with the laws , and such as have already held offices of ...
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... side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery affecting the nerve produces high , the negative pole deep , hoarse tones . Liscovius , in his The- ory of the ...
... side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery affecting the nerve produces high , the negative pole deep , hoarse tones . Liscovius , in his The- ory of the ...
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... side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau , between the eighteenth and twenty - second degrees of north latitude . The plateau in question owes its present form to the circumstance of an ancient system of valleys ...
... side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau , between the eighteenth and twenty - second degrees of north latitude . The plateau in question owes its present form to the circumstance of an ancient system of valleys ...
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... side of the Tagus . Its western limits are the ocean ; but it is impossible to determine how far it may be prolonged in that direction ; neither can we assign with precision its extreme eastern limit , since the country beyond the ...
... side of the Tagus . Its western limits are the ocean ; but it is impossible to determine how far it may be prolonged in that direction ; neither can we assign with precision its extreme eastern limit , since the country beyond the ...
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Página 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 80 - ... not furnish a single case from which even an enemy would infer that he was capable, under any circumstances, of stooping to the employment of duplicity. No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright, and his means always pure. He exhibits the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown, and whose professions to foreign governments, and to his own countrymen, were always sincere. In him was fully exemplified the real distinction which...
Página 465 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Página 477 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Página 477 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Página 147 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 224 - ... is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.
Página 80 - ... that no great and decisive advantages were ever obtained over him, and that the opportunity to strike an important blow never passed away unused. He has been termed the American Fabius; but those who compare his actions with his means will perceive at least as much of Marcellus as of Fabius in his character. He could not have been more enterprising without endangering the cause he defended, nor have put more to hazard without incurring justly the imputation of rashness. Not relying upon those...
Página 477 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Página 66 - 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 his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity.