Encyclopædia 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, Volumen13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... natural VISIONS . Ghosts , phantoms , appari- form . The illusions of the superstitious tions , spectres , spirits , --for the vocabulary consist of demons or angels , and all sorts of superstition is rich in terms , or , in of ...
... natural VISIONS . Ghosts , phantoms , appari- form . The illusions of the superstitious tions , spectres , spirits , --for the vocabulary consist of demons or angels , and all sorts of superstition is rich in terms , or , in of ...
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... Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . ble in the space of four months . This Illusions are often also produced by the extravagance soon raised the indignation appearance of objects imperfectly ' seen of the people . Vespasian was proclaimin ...
... Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . ble in the space of four months . This Illusions are often also produced by the extravagance soon raised the indignation appearance of objects imperfectly ' seen of the people . Vespasian was proclaimin ...
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... natural division culiarities , whether the closure precedes of words is shown to cease with syllables : the continued sound or follows it ; that is they are one sound , and the division into to say , whether the syllables pronounced ...
... natural division culiarities , whether the closure precedes of words is shown to cease with syllables : the continued sound or follows it ; that is they are one sound , and the division into to say , whether the syllables pronounced ...
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... natural defects or dis- eases in those organs ( for instance , narrow- ness of the chest , weak lungs ) give rise to imperfections in the voice . As weakness of lungs necessarily affects the voice , so fre- quent singing developes and ...
... natural defects or dis- eases in those organs ( for instance , narrow- ness of the chest , weak lungs ) give rise to imperfections in the voice . As weakness of lungs necessarily affects the voice , so fre- quent singing developes and ...
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... natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French ...
... natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French ...
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Página 233 - ... 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 481 - Robbery, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy, and Loss of Lands, Goods and Chattels, as Pirates, Felons and Robbers upon the Seas ought to suffer.
Página 473 - 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 473 - 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 170 - A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREVAILING RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS of PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity.
Página 70 - resolved that the thanks of Congress in their own name, and in the name of the Thirteen United Colonies whom they represent, be presented to his Excellency General Washington, and the officers and soldiers under his command, for their wise and spirited conduct in the siege and acquisition of Boston...
Página 102 - White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
Página 473 - 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 62 - 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.
Página 433 - We found the people of the Rio Negro swarthier than those of the lower Orinoco, and yet the banks of the first of these rivers enjoy a much cooler climate than the more northern regions. In the forests of Guiana, especially...