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, Volume 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... character , was born in London , and brought up to a mechanical business , which he quitted to become a strolling player . In 1751 , he published a poem entitled Religion , or the Libertine Repentant , which was succeeded , in 1754 , by ...
... character , was born in London , and brought up to a mechanical business , which he quitted to become a strolling player . In 1751 , he published a poem entitled Religion , or the Libertine Repentant , which was succeeded , in 1754 , by ...
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... character . Stilicho was charged with the design of dethroning Honorius , in order to advance his son Eucherius in his place ; and the memory of this distin- guished captain has been treated by the ecclesiastical historians with great ...
... character . Stilicho was charged with the design of dethroning Honorius , in order to advance his son Eucherius in his place ; and the memory of this distin- guished captain has been treated by the ecclesiastical historians with great ...
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... character , by remind- ing us of the individuals with whom they are associated . The Dutch painters Van Elst , John Fyt , Francis Sneyders , David Koning , John Weeninx , Melchior Hondekoeter , William Kalf , and Van Streeck , are ...
... character , by remind- ing us of the individuals with whom they are associated . The Dutch painters Van Elst , John Fyt , Francis Sneyders , David Koning , John Weeninx , Melchior Hondekoeter , William Kalf , and Van Streeck , are ...
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... character : stock , to be transferred in twenty days , for £ 12,000 . A. , in fact , does not possess any such property ; yet if the price of bank stock on the day appointed for the transfer should be only £ 118 per cent . , he may then ...
... character : stock , to be transferred in twenty days , for £ 12,000 . A. , in fact , does not possess any such property ; yet if the price of bank stock on the day appointed for the transfer should be only £ 118 per cent . , he may then ...
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... character , and therefore admits the worship of several gods , and teaches that their connexion with men may be beneficial to the latter . The human soul he considers as produced by the union of the creative fire with air , and endowed ...
... character , and therefore admits the worship of several gods , and teaches that their connexion with men may be beneficial to the latter . The human soul he considers as produced by the union of the creative fire with air , and endowed ...
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Page 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 64 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 421 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 411 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof 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.
Page 447 - ... and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 195 - For, while the infant was in ward, the guardian had the power of tendering him or her a suitable match, without disparagement, or inequality; which if the infants refused, they forfeited the value of the marriage [valorem maritagii...
Page 344 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
Page 344 - THERE is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness ; the Maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Page 411 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 71 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.