Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Band 11Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... important service by the establishment of schools of oratory : at one time , they were the only public teachers of rhetoric , and they encouraged the youth to aim at the glory of eloquence , both by instruc- · tion and practice , and by ...
... important service by the establishment of schools of oratory : at one time , they were the only public teachers of rhetoric , and they encouraged the youth to aim at the glory of eloquence , both by instruc- · tion and practice , and by ...
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... important rivers which flow into it are , the Aar , Kinzig , Murg , Neckar , Maine , Nahe , Lahn , Moselle , Erft , Ruhr , Lippe : the most important places on the banks are Constance , Schaffhausen , Bâsle , Spire , Manheim , Worms ...
... important rivers which flow into it are , the Aar , Kinzig , Murg , Neckar , Maine , Nahe , Lahn , Moselle , Erft , Ruhr , Lippe : the most important places on the banks are Constance , Schaffhausen , Bâsle , Spire , Manheim , Worms ...
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... important cities of New England , and contains now about one fifth of the population of the state . Newport is some- what less than half the size of Providence , and the other towns are not large . The general assembly of Rhode Island ...
... important cities of New England , and contains now about one fifth of the population of the state . Newport is some- what less than half the size of Providence , and the other towns are not large . The general assembly of Rhode Island ...
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... important production is his treatise on Political Economy and Taxation , which affords a luminous exposition of the origin and fluctuations of national wealth and expenditure . In 1819 , Mr. Ricardo ob- tained a seat in parliament for ...
... important production is his treatise on Political Economy and Taxation , which affords a luminous exposition of the origin and fluctuations of national wealth and expenditure . In 1819 , Mr. Ricardo ob- tained a seat in parliament for ...
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... important article of food is now cultivated in all the warmer parts of the globe . It was long known in the East before it was introduced into Egypt and Greece . Pliny , Dioscori- des and Theophrastus mention it as being brought from ...
... important article of food is now cultivated in all the warmer parts of the globe . It was long known in the East before it was introduced into Egypt and Greece . Pliny , Dioscori- des and Theophrastus mention it as being brought from ...
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Seite 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Seite 433 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Seite 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, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Seite 40 - A riot is 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.
Seite 416 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to approach nearer to his offence.
Seite 434 - The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and [were] stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day. As they belonged to and were shipped on account of different individuals, they were all branded like sheep with the owner's marks of different forms. These were impressed under their breasts or on their arms and, as the mate informed me...
Seite 435 - ... scrambling out together to taste the luxury of a little fresh air and water. They came swarming up, like bees from the aperture of a hive, till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation, from stem to stern ; so that it was impossible to imagine where they could all have come from, or how they could have been stowed away.
Seite 167 - Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be had and retained particularly in temples, and that due honour and veneration are to be given them...
Seite 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.
Seite 433 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...