The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Հատոր 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... land , born at Hertford in 1664 , died Oct. 10 , 1723. He was called to the bar in 1688 , the year of the revolution , in which he took part so far as to form a small company of volunteers , and set out to join the prince of Orange ...
... land , born at Hertford in 1664 , died Oct. 10 , 1723. He was called to the bar in 1688 , the year of the revolution , in which he took part so far as to form a small company of volunteers , and set out to join the prince of Orange ...
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... lands in the western districts of Virginia , he encountered a party led by an aged Indian chief , who inform- ed him ... Land in 1493 , and shared the im- prisonment to which the last was subjected after the battle of Mühlberg , in 1547 ...
... lands in the western districts of Virginia , he encountered a party led by an aged Indian chief , who inform- ed him ... Land in 1493 , and shared the im- prisonment to which the last was subjected after the battle of Mühlberg , in 1547 ...
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... land- scape painting . He resided in New York in the practice of his art from that time till 1847 , when he visited Italy for 2 years . He went again to Europe in 1853 , and has since then lived in Paris ; and his productions have given ...
... land- scape painting . He resided in New York in the practice of his art from that time till 1847 , when he visited Italy for 2 years . He went again to Europe in 1853 , and has since then lived in Paris ; and his productions have given ...
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... land is uneven , and of various qualities . In the north it is moder- ately fertile , and in the south sterile . The ar- able land produces cotton , grain , and sweet potatoes ; the rest of the surface is chiefly cov- ered with pine ...
... land is uneven , and of various qualities . In the north it is moder- ately fertile , and in the south sterile . The ar- able land produces cotton , grain , and sweet potatoes ; the rest of the surface is chiefly cov- ered with pine ...
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... lands below tide water between the Savannah and the Altamaha , except 3 islands on the coast . Six years later Oglethorpe again visited them at Cowetas , on the Chattahoochee , and by a new treaty they acknowledged themselves sub- ject ...
... lands below tide water between the Savannah and the Altamaha , except 3 islands on the coast . Six years later Oglethorpe again visited them at Cowetas , on the Chattahoochee , and by a new treaty they acknowledged themselves sub- ject ...
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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...