The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Band 4George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1859 |
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Seite 299 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Seite 248 - San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz Shasta...
Seite 393 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Seite 364 - Strength and other Properties of Metals : Reports of Experiments on the Strength and other Properties of Metals for Cannon. With a Description of the Machines for testing Metals, and of the Classification of Cannon in service. By Officers of the Ordnance Department US Army. By authority of the Secretary of War. Illustrated by 25 large steel plates. In one volume, 4to. . $10.00 SULLIVAN.— Protection to Native Industry. By Sir EDWARD SULLIVAN, Baronet, author of " Ten Chapters on Social Reforms.
Seite 243 - I shall conclude with a few remarks in reference to the leading feature of his amendment, the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands among the states.
Seite 169 - What an odd situation and friendship is ours ! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other.
Seite 135 - Dumfries was like a besieged place. It was known he was dying, and the anxiety, not of the rich and the learned only, but of the mechanics and peasants, exceeded all belief. Wherever two or three people stood together, their talk was of Burns and of him alone ; they spoke of his history — of his person — of his works, — of his family — of his fame, and of his untimely and approaching fate, with a warmth and an enthusiasm which will ever endear Dumfries to my remembrance.
Seite 46 - Consul-Generalship, and he won such golden opinion that he was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. In 1838 he went as Consul to Rotterdam, in 1839 to Malaga. It was as French Consul at Barcelona that he won, during the revolt of 1842, the admiration of Europe as a humanitarian. His personal courage and his devotion to suffering people induced four governments to send him decorations. He was made an...
Seite 280 - PROVINCE, or of the greater Part of them, or of their Delegates or Deputies...
Seite 29 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.