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, Band 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... Roman treasury for a subsidy he warmly supported . This conduct ex- cited suspicion of his treachery on the part of Honorius , who massacred all his friends during his absence . He received intelligence of this fact at the camp of ...
... Roman treasury for a subsidy he warmly supported . This conduct ex- cited suspicion of his treachery on the part of Honorius , who massacred all his friends during his absence . He received intelligence of this fact at the camp of ...
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... upon the Roman philosophers , among whom Seneca , Epictetus , and Marcus Aurelius ( see Antoninus ) , were Stoics . They employed themselves prin- thoracic duct . The use of the stomach is to STOICHIOMETRY - STOICS . 13.
... upon the Roman philosophers , among whom Seneca , Epictetus , and Marcus Aurelius ( see Antoninus ) , were Stoics . They employed themselves prin- thoracic duct . The use of the stomach is to STOICHIOMETRY - STOICS . 13.
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... Roman women in later times , they having origi- nally worn the toga only , like the men . The stola was a long tunic with sleeves , reaching to the feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola ...
... Roman women in later times , they having origi- nally worn the toga only , like the men . The stola was a long tunic with sleeves , reaching to the feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola ...
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... Roman college , where he resided till his death , in 1649. His most famous works are a History of the Wars in the Neth- erlands , in Latin , and Prolusiones Acade- mice , which have been repeatedly pub- lished . In one of these ...
... Roman college , where he resided till his death , in 1649. His most famous works are a History of the Wars in the Neth- erlands , in Latin , and Prolusiones Acade- mice , which have been repeatedly pub- lished . In one of these ...
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... Roman poets , of which there are many translations , in- cluding those published by Addison , in the Guardian . STRAFFORD , Sir Thomas Wentworth , earl of , au eminent minister and statesman , was the eldest son of sir William Went ...
... Roman poets , of which there are many translations , in- cluding those published by Addison , in the Guardian . STRAFFORD , Sir Thomas Wentworth , earl of , au eminent minister and statesman , was the eldest son of sir William Went ...
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Seite 412 - ... 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.
Seite 65 - 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...
Seite 304 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Seite 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Seite 449 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will.
Seite 422 - 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 to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 448 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, 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.
Seite 412 - ... 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.
Seite 448 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, 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.
Seite 446 - Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy ; and, under his superintendence discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States.