The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Հատոր 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... deaf and dumb institution . The silk manufacture was introduced in the 17th century by a colony of Huguenot refugees . It employs about 2,500 looms in the town and its vicinity ; and the annual products are estimated at $ 5,000,000 ...
... deaf and dumb institution . The silk manufacture was introduced in the 17th century by a colony of Huguenot refugees . It employs about 2,500 looms in the town and its vicinity ; and the annual products are estimated at $ 5,000,000 ...
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... deaf mutes in England . Numerals are also desig nated by the fingers . The 10 digits undoubted- ly formed the first abacus , but for purposes of convenience it is preferable to be able to desig- nate all the numbers by one hand only ...
... deaf mutes in England . Numerals are also desig nated by the fingers . The 10 digits undoubted- ly formed the first abacus , but for purposes of convenience it is preferable to be able to desig- nate all the numbers by one hand only ...
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... Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor , " which appeared in 1680. This work contains so fully the principles of deaf mute instruction , though deduced from theory only , that it would not be seriously defective as a handbook for the teacher at the ...
... Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor , " which appeared in 1680. This work contains so fully the principles of deaf mute instruction , though deduced from theory only , that it would not be seriously defective as a handbook for the teacher at the ...
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... deafness which had been growing upon him for some years had at this time so much increased , that he declined for this reason to take his seat in the convention . He was not eloquent , either at the bar or in legislative bodies ; nor ...
... deafness which had been growing upon him for some years had at this time so much increased , that he declined for this reason to take his seat in the convention . He was not eloquent , either at the bar or in legislative bodies ; nor ...
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... deaf and dumb asylum , containing about 70 inmates . A rail- road connects it with Lexington . DAPHNE , the name of a place near Antioch in Syria , containing a large and beautiful grove of laurels and cypresses , and a magnificent tem ...
... deaf and dumb asylum , containing about 70 inmates . A rail- road connects it with Lexington . DAPHNE , the name of a place near Antioch in Syria , containing a large and beautiful grove of laurels and cypresses , and a magnificent tem ...
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Էջ 96 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps...
Էջ 294 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Էջ 346 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Էջ 346 - All power residing originally in and being derived from the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them.
Էջ 264 - I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service.
Էջ 162 - was to consider the several matters not only in themselves, but relatively, or as they respect each other ; both to treat them as so many wholes, and as so many parts of some greater whole.
Էջ 204 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Էջ 260 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Էջ 232 - Commedia made during the fourteenth century, and now existing in the libraries of Europe, are more numerous than those of all other works, ancient and modern, made during the same period. Between the invention of printing and the year 1500, more than twenty editions were published in Italy, the earliest in 1472. During the sixteenth century there were forty editions; during the seventeenth, a period, for Italy, of sceptical...
Էջ 306 - His father, one of the French protestants who took refuge in England upon...