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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... become a strolling player . In 1751 , he published a poem entitled Religion , or the Libertine Repentant , which was succeeded , in 1754 , by the Birthday of Folly . These were followed by a novel called Tom Fool , and the Dramatic ...
... become a strolling player . In 1751 , he published a poem entitled Religion , or the Libertine Repentant , which was succeeded , in 1754 , by the Birthday of Folly . These were followed by a novel called Tom Fool , and the Dramatic ...
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... become so great as to en- danger life . STINK - POT ; an earthen jar , charged with powder , grenades , and other mate- rials of an offensive and suffocating smell . It is sometimes used by privateers , to an- noy an enemy whom they ...
... become so great as to en- danger life . STINK - POT ; an earthen jar , charged with powder , grenades , and other mate- rials of an offensive and suffocating smell . It is sometimes used by privateers , to an- noy an enemy whom they ...
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... become gradually lower as they remove from the main chain , till they present nothing but small elevations . There are , however , but few extensive plains . The rivers are the Drave , Save , Muhr and Ens . The climate in the ele- vated ...
... become gradually lower as they remove from the main chain , till they present nothing but small elevations . There are , however , but few extensive plains . The rivers are the Drave , Save , Muhr and Ens . The climate in the ele- vated ...
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... becomes a law , even without the king's sanction . In this manner nobility was abolished in Norway . STOSCH , Philip ... become hot , and , in their turn , radiate heat on all sides to the room . The conducted heat is also re- ceived by ...
... becomes a law , even without the king's sanction . In this manner nobility was abolished in Norway . STOSCH , Philip ... become hot , and , in their turn , radiate heat on all sides to the room . The conducted heat is also re- ceived by ...
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... becoming hot , and also slower in becoming cold , than the common stove . Russian stoves are usu- ally provided with a damper , or valve , at top , which is used to close the funnel or passage , when the smoke has ceased to ascend . Its ...
... becoming hot , and also slower in becoming cold , than the common stove . Russian stoves are usu- ally provided with a damper , or valve , at top , which is used to close the funnel or passage , when the smoke has ceased to ascend . Its ...
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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.