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, Volumen11Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... called , by the ancient Greeks and Romans , grammarians , or philologists . Their studies embraced every kind of lit- erary productions ( yeaupa , writing ) , and whatever might be necessary to illustrate and explain them . But the ...
... called , by the ancient Greeks and Romans , grammarians , or philologists . Their studies embraced every kind of lit- erary productions ( yeaupa , writing ) , and whatever might be necessary to illustrate and explain them . But the ...
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... called rhetoricians among the Greeks ; and they also bore the same name , or that of professors ( professores ) , among the early Romans . The invention of rhetoric is ascribed by the Ægyptians and poets to Thoth , Hermes , or Mercury ...
... called rhetoricians among the Greeks ; and they also bore the same name , or that of professors ( professores ) , among the early Romans . The invention of rhetoric is ascribed by the Ægyptians and poets to Thoth , Hermes , or Mercury ...
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... called in France the natural boundary between . France and Germany : with equal reason the Elbe might be called so , and perhaps would have been called so , had the French empire continued , as it had extended al- ready to that river at ...
... called in France the natural boundary between . France and Germany : with equal reason the Elbe might be called so , and perhaps would have been called so , had the French empire continued , as it had extended al- ready to that river at ...
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... ( called Lachse when they as- cend the river in spring , coming from the sea , and Salmen when they descend in autumn to the sea ) , sturgeons , lampreys , pikcs , and excellent carps . From Stras- burg to Spire , the Rhine is about 1100 ...
... ( called Lachse when they as- cend the river in spring , coming from the sea , and Salmen when they descend in autumn to the sea ) , sturgeons , lampreys , pikcs , and excellent carps . From Stras- burg to Spire , the Rhine is about 1100 ...
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... called a male rhyme ; if in the two last syllables , as bitter and glitter , it is called a female rhyme . Sometimes the three last syllables rhyme , as callosity and reciprocity , or the Italian diacine and duracine , or tavola and ...
... called a male rhyme ; if in the two last syllables , as bitter and glitter , it is called a female rhyme . Sometimes the three last syllables rhyme , as callosity and reciprocity , or the Italian diacine and duracine , or tavola and ...
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Página 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Página 433 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 40 - ... a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Página 433 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 260 - On the approach of Burgoyne, in 1777, he made every exertion to obstruct his progress ; but the evacuation of Ticonderoga by .St. Clair, occasioning unreasonable jealousies in regard to Schuyler, in New England, he was superseded by Gates, in August, and Congress directed an inquiry to be made into his conduct.
Página 51 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
Página 110 - ... multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first for the answer, which will always be of the same denomination M the third term.
Página 433 - States, shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and abet in forcibly confining or detaining, on board such ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto not held to service by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States...
Página 461 - When I heard Pericles, or any other great orator, I was entertained and delighted, and I felt that he had spoken well. But no mortal speech has ever excited in my mind such emotions as are kindled by this magician. Whenever I hear him, I am, as it were, charmed and fettered. My heart leaps like an inspired Corybant. My inmost soul is stung by his words, as by the bite of a serpent; it is indignant at its own rude and ignoble character. I often weep tears of regret, and think how vain and inglorious...
Página 114 - Philadelphia, and when, in 1791, the college was merged in the university of Pennsylvania, he was appointed professor of the institutes and practice of medicine, and of clinical practice.