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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... land - holder , in 1790 , and had just finished his studies for the bar , in the capital , when the revo- lution broke out ( 1810 ) . He immediately espoused the cause of his native land against the Spaniards , and entered the service ...
... land - holder , in 1790 , and had just finished his studies for the bar , in the capital , when the revo- lution broke out ( 1810 ) . He immediately espoused the cause of his native land against the Spaniards , and entered the service ...
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... land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ was heard with great pleasure . He ...
... land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ was heard with great pleasure . He ...
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... land has been shaken from one ex- tremity to the other , and continuous tracts , together with the bed of the Pacific , have been raised permanently from one to twenty feet above their former level . ing Caribbean sea must be considered ...
... land has been shaken from one ex- tremity to the other , and continuous tracts , together with the bed of the Pacific , have been raised permanently from one to twenty feet above their former level . ing Caribbean sea must be considered ...
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... land . These mostly laid down their arm in 1801 ; but when the war broke o again in 1803 , and the intention of th French to effect a landing was nounced , the inhabitants of Great Britai rose anew , and the ministers spoke nearly ...
... land . These mostly laid down their arm in 1801 ; but when the war broke o again in 1803 , and the intention of th French to effect a landing was nounced , the inhabitants of Great Britai rose anew , and the ministers spoke nearly ...
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... land was raised up by an internal force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- tions of the higher grounds . The Nep ...
... land was raised up by an internal force ; the irregularities which diversify its surface are the effects of volcanic eruptions ; and the transported soils have been formed by the disintegra- tions of the higher grounds . The Nep ...
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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