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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... Island ; Dr. Walter Channing , of Boston ; Dr. Dewees , of Philadelphia ; and the late Hon . Charles Ewing , chief justice of New Jersey . The friendly aid received from these and other gentle- men is most gratefully acknowledged ...
... Island ; Dr. Walter Channing , of Boston ; Dr. Dewees , of Philadelphia ; and the late Hon . Charles Ewing , chief justice of New Jersey . The friendly aid received from these and other gentle- men is most gratefully acknowledged ...
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... islands , to be prolonged to a great distance ; for there seem to be no indications of volcanic dis- turbances in Guiana , Brazil and Buenos Ayres . On an equal , if not a still grand- er scale , is another continuous line of vol- canic ...
... islands , to be prolonged to a great distance ; for there seem to be no indications of volcanic dis- turbances in Guiana , Brazil and Buenos Ayres . On an equal , if not a still grand- er scale , is another continuous line of vol- canic ...
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... islands , are all composed either of coralline limestones or volcanic rocks , with active vents here and there inter ... island . With these , also , part of the nearest coast of Greenland , which is sometimes shaken by earthquakes , may ...
... islands , are all composed either of coralline limestones or volcanic rocks , with active vents here and there inter ... island . With these , also , part of the nearest coast of Greenland , which is sometimes shaken by earthquakes , may ...
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... island the cultivation of the sugar- cane , indigo , and other tropical plants ; but he was unsuccessful . Returning to Paris , he suffered persecution under the reign of terror ; and , after ten months ' im- prisonment , the fall of ...
... island the cultivation of the sugar- cane , indigo , and other tropical plants ; but he was unsuccessful . Returning to Paris , he suffered persecution under the reign of terror ; and , after ten months ' im- prisonment , the fall of ...
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... island of Lem- nos . He broke his leg by the fall , and ever after remained lame of one foot . He fixed his residence in Lemnos , where he built himself a palace , and raised forges to work metals . Bacchus intoxicated him , and ...
... island of Lem- nos . He broke his leg by the fall , and ever after remained lame of one foot . He fixed his residence in Lemnos , where he built himself a palace , and raised forges to work metals . Bacchus intoxicated him , and ...
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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