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, Band 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... church , where he continued from 1755 to 1776 . During this and several succeeding years , the enemy were in possession of New- port , and the inhabitants of the town scattered . Doctor Stiles was solicited to preach in several places ...
... church , where he continued from 1755 to 1776 . During this and several succeeding years , the enemy were in possession of New- port , and the inhabitants of the town scattered . Doctor Stiles was solicited to preach in several places ...
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... church of Northampton , was born at Boston , in 1643 , and graduated at Harvard college in 1662 , of which he was subse- quently made a fellow . Intense applica- tion having impaired his health , he went to Barbadoes as chaplain to ...
... church of Northampton , was born at Boston , in 1643 , and graduated at Harvard college in 1662 , of which he was subse- quently made a fellow . Intense applica- tion having impaired his health , he went to Barbadoes as chaplain to ...
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... churches , seven Lutheran , and one Re- formed , two hospitals , two theatres , two public libraries , a botanic ... church of St. Thomas contains a splendid monument , erected by Louis XV , to marshal Saxe . This city is famous in ...
... churches , seven Lutheran , and one Re- formed , two hospitals , two theatres , two public libraries , a botanic ... church of St. Thomas contains a splendid monument , erected by Louis XV , to marshal Saxe . This city is famous in ...
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... church were ancho- rites ( q . v . ) , who , by way of penance , passed the greater part of their lives on the top of high columns . Simeon , a Syrian monk , of the fifth century , invented this insane method of self - torture , about ...
... church were ancho- rites ( q . v . ) , who , by way of penance , passed the greater part of their lives on the top of high columns . Simeon , a Syrian monk , of the fifth century , invented this insane method of self - torture , about ...
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... church services of Eu- rope , the Sundays are named from the feasts which precede them , or from the collects or passages of Scripture with which the religious service was formerly commenced on the several Sundays : 1. Sunday after New ...
... church services of Eu- rope , the Sundays are named from the feasts which precede them , or from the collects or passages of Scripture with which the religious service was formerly commenced on the several Sundays : 1. Sunday after New ...
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Seite 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 71 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.