The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary for General Knowledge, 第 4 卷

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George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana
D. Appleton and Company, 1883
 

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第 255 頁 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
第 64 頁 - Illustrations | of the | Birds | of | California, Texas, Oregon, British and | Russian America. | Intended to contain descriptions and figures | of all | North American Birds | not given by former American authors, | and a | General Synopsis of North American Ornithology.
第 254 頁 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...
第 234 頁 - In 1833 appeared his Bridgewater treatise, On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
第 117 頁 - the mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world...
第 135 頁 - Adams' father, and twenty others, one or two from the north end of the town, where all the ship business is carried on, used to meet, make a caucus, and lay their plan for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power.
第 404 頁 - Kansas, and such other courts as may be authorized by Congress shall have, without reference to the amount in controversy, concurrent jurisdiction over all controversies arising between said...
第 339 頁 - After arriving at Chickamauga, and informing myself of the full condition of affairs, it was decided to put the army in motion for a point further removed from a powerful and victorious army, that we might have -some little time to replenish and recuperate for another struggle.
第 96 頁 - April, 1786, and that same evening the removal from the cemeteries began. This work was always performed at night ; the bones were brought in funeral cars, covered with a pall, followed by priests, chanting the service of the dead, and when they reached the Catacombs were shot down the shaft. The tomb-stones, monuments...
第 416 頁 - ... guarded by swarms of infantry, securely sheltered by fences, ditches, and ravines. Tier after tier of batteries were grimly visible on the plateau, rising in the form of an amphitheatre. We could only reach the first line of batteries by traversing an open space of from 300 to 400 yards, exposed to a murderous fire of grape and canister from the artillery, and musketry from the infantry. If that was carried, another and still more difficult remained in the rear. An examination convinced me that...

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