Encyclopaedia 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, 第 13 卷Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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... battles , he was successful in the plains between Mantua and Cremona . He now gave himself up to luxury and debauchery . He feasted four or five times a day , and was often seen to make himself vomit , to begin his repast afresh . Above ...
... battles , he was successful in the plains between Mantua and Cremona . He now gave himself up to luxury and debauchery . He feasted four or five times a day , and was often seen to make himself vomit , to begin his repast afresh . Above ...
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... battle ; 3000 French were taken prisoners . The English took 151 cannons , and 400 wagons with mili- tary stores , and the military chest . Their booty was immense . General Clauzel arrived the day after the battle , with two divisions ...
... battle ; 3000 French were taken prisoners . The English took 151 cannons , and 400 wagons with mili- tary stores , and the military chest . Their booty was immense . General Clauzel arrived the day after the battle , with two divisions ...
第 39 頁
... BATTLE OF , on July 5 and 6 , 1809 , gained by Napoleon over the arch- duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar ...
... BATTLE OF , on July 5 and 6 , 1809 , gained by Napoleon over the arch- duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar ...
第 40 頁
... battle by destroying the enemy's centre . Massena attacked Aderklaa most violently ; and , had he succeeded , all would have been lost ; but the Austrians fought with great bravery against the cavalry , artillery and guards , and repeat ...
... battle by destroying the enemy's centre . Massena attacked Aderklaa most violently ; and , had he succeeded , all would have been lost ; but the Austrians fought with great bravery against the cavalry , artillery and guards , and repeat ...
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... battles on the sea and coasts , and especially by the demolition of their chief place of assembling , Ras el Elyma ( Kherim ) , where 3200 inhabitants were killed , and 1600 taken prisoners . On the other hand , the British , as a ...
... battles on the sea and coasts , and especially by the demolition of their chief place of assembling , Ras el Elyma ( Kherim ) , where 3200 inhabitants were killed , and 1600 taken prisoners . On the other hand , the British , as a ...
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第 145 頁 - is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
第 145 頁 - led the way into the Pacific seas. " Look at the manner," says Burke (1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's
第 145 頁 - Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry.
第 491 頁 - in the city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware-house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, provided such person shall have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes.
第 384 頁 - contracting powers express their "regrets that their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of all the Russias, are not prepared to concur in active measures to carry the treaty into
第 465 頁 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although
第 194 頁 - yet more Bloody, by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White. In these works of Williams, the doctrine of religious liberty and unlimited toleration are illustrated in strong language, and supported by stronger arguments—arguments that preceded those of Locke, Bayle and Furneau.
第 64 頁 - which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate
第 64 頁 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed
第 264 頁 - that, if any person escaped alive out of the ship, it should be no wreck: and, after various modifications, it was decided, in the reign of Henry III, that if goods were cast on shore, having any marks by which they could be identified, they were to revert to the