Encyclopædia 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 11 卷Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... town . He early discovered a predi- lection for the art of drawing , which in- duced his father to place him , at the age of seventeen , with Hudson , the most fa- mous portrait . painter in London , with whom he remained three years ...
... town . He early discovered a predi- lection for the art of drawing , which in- duced his father to place him , at the age of seventeen , with Hudson , the most fa- mous portrait . painter in London , with whom he remained three years ...
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... town : the streets are , in general , broad and regular , the houses well built , and there are numerous large gardens . It contains some remarkable public buildings , among which are the hôtel de ville , finished in 1825 ; a magnifi ...
... town : the streets are , in general , broad and regular , the houses well built , and there are numerous large gardens . It contains some remarkable public buildings , among which are the hôtel de ville , finished in 1825 ; a magnifi ...
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... towns are not large . The general assembly of Rhode Island meets four times in a year : at Newport on the first Wednesday of May , which is the commencement of the political year , and again at the same place in June ; in Octo- ber , it ...
... towns are not large . The general assembly of Rhode Island meets four times in a year : at Newport on the first Wednesday of May , which is the commencement of the political year , and again at the same place in June ; in Octo- ber , it ...
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... town is surrounded by three walls and a double ditch , and is considered by the Turks as impregnable . It has two fine harbors , separated only by a mole . The celebrat- ed colossus probably stood here . ( See Colossus . ) RHODIUM ; a ...
... town is surrounded by three walls and a double ditch , and is considered by the Turks as impregnable . It has two fine harbors , separated only by a mole . The celebrat- ed colossus probably stood here . ( See Colossus . ) RHODIUM ; a ...
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... town Sini to lake Kokonor , near Thibet . It is easily distinguished by hav- ing the leaves divided into acute lobes ; the roots are very large , yellow and branching ; the stem is of moderate height , cylindrical , smooth and striated ...
... town Sini to lake Kokonor , near Thibet . It is easily distinguished by hav- ing the leaves divided into acute lobes ; the roots are very large , yellow and branching ; the stem is of moderate height , cylindrical , smooth and striated ...
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第 427 頁 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
第 183 頁 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
第 427 頁 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes...
第 410 頁 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to approach nearer to his offence.
第 104 頁 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
第 45 頁 - Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
第 108 頁 - In 1769, he was elected professor of chemistry in the college of Philadelphia, and when, in 1791, the college was merged in the university of Pennsylvania, he was appointed professor of the institutes and practice of medicine, and of clinical practice.
第 104 頁 - If six men dig a certain quantity of trench in fourteen hours, how many hours will it require for twelve men to dig the same quantity?
第 338 頁 - It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and age, down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations, and...
第 429 頁 - ... fresh air and water. They came swarming up, like bees from the aperture of a hive, till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation, from stem to stern...