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, 第 6 卷Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... towns of Ithome and Ira ; 6. La- conia , Laconica , Lacedæmon , a moun- tainous country traversed by the Tayge- tus , and watered by the Eurotas , bounded on three sides by the Messenian , the La- conian and the Argolic gulfs ; Sparta ...
... towns of Ithome and Ira ; 6. La- conia , Laconica , Lacedæmon , a moun- tainous country traversed by the Tayge- tus , and watered by the Eurotas , bounded on three sides by the Messenian , the La- conian and the Argolic gulfs ; Sparta ...
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... hastened to relieve the citadel of Patras , and the town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17.
... hastened to relieve the citadel of Patras , and the town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17.
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... town to deliver up the place to the pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to commit great excesses , being excessively discontented with lord Byron's new regu- lations , and with the influence of foreign- ers in general . A great number of ...
... town to deliver up the place to the pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to commit great excesses , being excessively discontented with lord Byron's new regu- lations , and with the influence of foreign- ers in general . A great number of ...
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... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
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... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storm . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storm . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
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第 451 頁 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
第 254 頁 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
第 254 頁 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
第 436 頁 - Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.
第 130 頁 - And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
第 318 頁 - Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there. We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practice the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America.
第 254 頁 - I determined to venture, and alone, unadvised, and unassisted, on a blank leaf of an old law-book wrote the within.
第 503 頁 - ... the pneumatic apparatus. Or, slips of sheet zinc, iron filings or turnings, or small iron nails, are introduced into a small gas-bottle with a bent tube, or into a common retort, upon which sulphuric acid, diluted with five or six times its weight of water, is poured; effervescence ensues, and the escaping gas may be collected in the usual manner. One troy ounce (480 grains) of zinc gives 356 oz. measures = about 676 cubic inches; and 1 ounce of iron, 412 oz.
第 262 頁 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, for it was like nothing on earth, which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
第 382 頁 - My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C.