The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Հատոր 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... success . - Coventry is connected with the grand trunk navigation by the Cov- entry and Oxford canal , and with the chief emporiums of the kingdom by the great north- western and 2 branch railways . It sends 2 members to parliament ...
... success . - Coventry is connected with the grand trunk navigation by the Cov- entry and Oxford canal , and with the chief emporiums of the kingdom by the great north- western and 2 branch railways . It sends 2 members to parliament ...
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... success as a practitioner , but as an author he made several contributions to legal literature , which became standard works . Among these is a " History of English Law . " He is most generally known by his treatise on " English ...
... success as a practitioner , but as an author he made several contributions to legal literature , which became standard works . Among these is a " History of English Law . " He is most generally known by his treatise on " English ...
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... successful , and his nude female figures have sometimes much grace and beauty of form . He also excelled in portraits ... success on uplands , to produce it by artificial cultivation . Recently a wild upland cranberry has been discovered ...
... successful , and his nude female figures have sometimes much grace and beauty of form . He also excelled in portraits ... success on uplands , to produce it by artificial cultivation . Recently a wild upland cranberry has been discovered ...
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... success there established his rep- utation at Paris , where , however , he was not fortunate in his first important forensic effort as counsel for Guernon - Ranville , a minister of Charles X. , who had been arraigned as one of the ...
... success there established his rep- utation at Paris , where , however , he was not fortunate in his first important forensic effort as counsel for Guernon - Ranville , a minister of Charles X. , who had been arraigned as one of the ...
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... success , and published collections of exer- cises in musical vocalization . CRESCENZI , PIETRO DE ' , a Bolognese noble- man , born about 1230 , died in 1320 , the author of the most valuable work on agriculture of the middle ages ...
... success , and published collections of exer- cises in musical vocalization . CRESCENZI , PIETRO DE ' , a Bolognese noble- man , born about 1230 , died in 1320 , the author of the most valuable work on agriculture of the middle ages ...
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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...