Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T.G. Bradford). |
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... common use , it answers both to the English sir and Mr. , and is also used before titles . In writing , it is expressed by the abbreviation M. The plural is messieurs . Monsieur is sometimes used by English writers as a term of contempt ...
... common use , it answers both to the English sir and Mr. , and is also used before titles . In writing , it is expressed by the abbreviation M. The plural is messieurs . Monsieur is sometimes used by English writers as a term of contempt ...
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... common or natural pro- ductions . Formerly , it was a general opinion , that monsters were not primordial or aboriginal , but that they were caused subsequently by the power of the im- agination of the mother , transferring the ...
... common or natural pro- ductions . Formerly , it was a general opinion , that monsters were not primordial or aboriginal , but that they were caused subsequently by the power of the im- agination of the mother , transferring the ...
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... common prejudices , but in none so happily as in a courageous adoption of the Turkish practice of inoculation for the small - pox in the case of her own son , and a zealous patronage of its intro- duction into England . In 1718 , Mr ...
... common prejudices , but in none so happily as in a courageous adoption of the Turkish practice of inoculation for the small - pox in the case of her own son , and a zealous patronage of its intro- duction into England . In 1718 , Mr ...
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... common month , is an interval of a certain number of whole days , approach- ing nearly to the quantity of some astro- nomical month . These may be either lunar or solar . The civil lunar month consists alternately of 29 and 30 days ...
... common month , is an interval of a certain number of whole days , approach- ing nearly to the quantity of some astro- nomical month . These may be either lunar or solar . The civil lunar month consists alternately of 29 and 30 days ...
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... common language , we mean by moon the particular satellite of our earth . Like the other heavenly bodies , it daily alters its apparent position among the fixed stars , and , in the course of a month , appears to make a complete revolu ...
... common language , we mean by moon the particular satellite of our earth . Like the other heavenly bodies , it daily alters its apparent position among the fixed stars , and , in the course of a month , appears to make a complete revolu ...
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第 239 頁 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
第 218 頁 - Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century...
第 273 頁 - Higansets, abutting upon .the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river; together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
第 182 頁 - Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek ; and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty !" Hardy stood over him in silence for a moment or two, then knelt again and kissed his forehead. " Who is that ?" said Nelson ; and being informed, he replied,
第 453 頁 - Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.
第 53 頁 - The several characters that seem in more ancient times to have composed the May game and morris were the following : Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several morris dancers, habited, as it appears, in various modes. Afterwards a hobby horse and a dragon were added.
第 422 頁 - ... of various substances, and containing almost all of them innumerable marine productions. Similar strata, with the same kind of productions, compose the hills even to a great height. Sometimes the shells are so numerous as to constitute the entire body of the stratum. They are almost everywhere in such a perfect state of preservation, that even the smallest of them retain their most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and their finest and tenderest processes.
第 453 頁 - The court has considered the subject of writs of assistance, and can see no foundation for such a writ ; but, as the practice in England is not known, it has been thought best to continue the question to the next term, that, in the mean time, opportunity may be given to know the result.
第 138 頁 - Majesty," replied he, when the offer was made him, " if you intend to make me a knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least able to support my title.
第 188 頁 - England (2 vok, 8vo.); and, soon after, a Narrative of the Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox in New England. In 1732, he sent into the world the first volume of his History of the Puritans (8vo.), the second, third and fourth appearing in 1733, 1736, and 1738.