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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... earliest revelations , made in the patriarchal age , were common to the progenitors of all people ; and their light ... early copies of this work have an im- proved form of this table after the index of vol . v . ) See also the article ...
... earliest revelations , made in the patriarchal age , were common to the progenitors of all people ; and their light ... early copies of this work have an im- proved form of this table after the index of vol . v . ) See also the article ...
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... earliest critical periodical is the well - known Acta Eruditorum ( Leip- sic , 1682—1776 ) , established by Otto Mencke ... early connexion of Dr. Johnson with its publisher . There is an index extending from 1731 to 1786 , and a second ...
... earliest critical periodical is the well - known Acta Eruditorum ( Leip- sic , 1682—1776 ) , established by Otto Mencke ... early connexion of Dr. Johnson with its publisher . There is an index extending from 1731 to 1786 , and a second ...
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... early French constitutions to give the right of opposing by force the exercise of unlawful power ; but , from the constitu- tion of human society , it hardly seems pos- sible to avoid the occurrence of forcible changes in political ...
... early French constitutions to give the right of opposing by force the exercise of unlawful power ; but , from the constitu- tion of human society , it hardly seems pos- sible to avoid the occurrence of forcible changes in political ...
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... early Romans . The invention of rhetoric is ascribed by the Ægyptians and poets to Thoth , Hermes , or Mercury , as , in ancient times , the mental powers and operations , in general , were looked upon as something divine . Pittheus ...
... early Romans . The invention of rhetoric is ascribed by the Ægyptians and poets to Thoth , Hermes , or Mercury , as , in ancient times , the mental powers and operations , in general , were looked upon as something divine . Pittheus ...
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... early distinguished for talent . As he was not rich enough to devote himself to literature , he engaged in commerce , went to Bucharest , and remained there until 1790. He made himself intimately acquainted with the literature of ...
... early distinguished for talent . As he was not rich enough to devote himself to literature , he engaged in commerce , went to Bucharest , and remained there until 1790. He made himself intimately acquainted with the literature of ...
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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.