Carleton's Treasury: A Valuable Hand-book of General Information, and a Condensed Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge, Being a Reference Book Upon Nearly Every Subject...with a Complete Analytical Index for Ready ReferenceG. W. Carleton, 1883 - 422 Seiten |
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Seite 421 - Europe, after the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope ; the...
Seite 21 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Seite 163 - Roderick, the Last of the Goths." Among his most important prose works, are the " Letters of Espriella," the " Colloquies with Sir Thomas More," the " Book of the Church," the " History of the Brazils," the " Life of Nelson," the " Life of Wesley," and that singular book,
Seite 142 - An affected style of speaking and writing introduced at the close of the sixteenth century by Lilly, who set the fashion in works entitled Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit, and Euphues and his England, which are replete with absurd jargon and bombast.
Seite 265 - Federation and the upsurge of irredentist and separatist movements in the wake of the new democratic regimes. Like the god Janus, such nationalism has two faces, one looking to the past, the other to the future. Now that those peoples have regained control over their own destiny, they should learn the lessons of their turbulent history and turn away from the temptations of intolerance and the desire to dominate...
Seite 324 - Bohemian king, composed of three ostrich feathers, with the motto, Ich Dien...
Seite 56 - ... lost is proved by the fact, that if the water, acid, gases, and charcoal be collected and weighed, they will be found exactly as heavy as the wood was before distillation. In the same manner, the substance of the coal burnt in our fires is not annihilated ; it is only dispersed in the form of smoke or particles of soot, gas, and ashes or dust. Bones, flesh, and other animal substances, may in the same manner be made to assume new forms, without losing a particle of the matter which they originally...
Seite 239 - Alexander the Great?— He was the son of Philip, king of Macedon...
Seite 324 - (I serve), was adopted by Prince Edward, and has ever since been borne by the princes of Wales...
Seite 394 - Inquisition. The Inquisition or " Holy Office," was a tribunal in the Roman Catholic church, instituted in 1248, for the discovery, repression, and punishment of heresy, unbelief, and other offences against religion. It was established in various countries, but nowhere did it proceed with such rigor as in Italy and Spain. The victims of the Inquisition were burned because the church was forbidden " to shed blood," an axiom of the Roman Catholic being, " Abhorret Ecclesia a sanguine" (the church is...