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, 7. köideFrancis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... Sicily , who had supported the latter . But Roger waged war against the pope , made him prisoner , and obliged Innocent to ac- knowledge him as king , absolve him from excommunication , and invest him and his heirs with Apulia ...
... Sicily , who had supported the latter . But Roger waged war against the pope , made him prisoner , and obliged Innocent to ac- knowledge him as king , absolve him from excommunication , and invest him and his heirs with Apulia ...
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... Sicily , Great Britain , Ire- land , Iceland , Hayti , Cuba , Newfoundland , are among the most considerable islands , and are capable of containing powerful states ; while others , speaking only of those which are inhabited , are only ...
... Sicily , Great Britain , Ire- land , Iceland , Hayti , Cuba , Newfoundland , are among the most considerable islands , and are capable of containing powerful states ; while others , speaking only of those which are inhabited , are only ...
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... Sicily . by any political tie , and of which an ac- In the lagoons of the Adriatic alone , some count will be given under the separate fugitives , who had fled from the devasta- heads - 1 . the kingdom of Sardinia ; 2. tions of Attila ...
... Sicily . by any political tie , and of which an ac- In the lagoons of the Adriatic alone , some count will be given under the separate fugitives , who had fled from the devasta- heads - 1 . the kingdom of Sardinia ; 2. tions of Attila ...
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... Sicily and the capital , Rome , which was governed by a patrician in the name of the emperor . The slight dependence on the court of Byzantium disappeared almost entirely in the beginning of the eighth century , when Leo the Isaurian ...
... Sicily and the capital , Rome , which was governed by a patrician in the name of the emperor . The slight dependence on the court of Byzantium disappeared almost entirely in the beginning of the eighth century , when Leo the Isaurian ...
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... Sicily by both parties ( about laide - contrary to her inclination , to mar- 830 ) , as auxiliaries against each other , but ry his son . Escaping from his cruelty who had settled and maintained them- and her prison , she took refuge in ...
... Sicily by both parties ( about laide - contrary to her inclination , to mar- 830 ) , as auxiliaries against each other , but ry his son . Escaping from his cruelty who had settled and maintained them- and her prison , she took refuge in ...
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Page 528 - ... animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed, honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves, with all these qualifications as if selected and implanted by nature in one body, for this express purpose, I could have no hesitation in confiding the enterprise to him.
Page 368 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 474 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Page 437 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 472 - In his dying moments he fancied himself on the field of battle. The last words he was heard to utter were, " Stand by me, my brave grenadiers ! " He left a will and testament strongly marked by his peculiarities.
Page 287 - Challenges to the array are at once an exception to the whole panel, in which the jury are arrayed or set in order by the sheriff in his return ; and they may be made upon account of partiality or some default in the sheriff, or his under-officer who arrayed the panel.
Page 353 - In the year 1680, a kraken, perhaps a young and careless one, came into the water that runs between the rocks and cliffs in the parish of Alstahoug, though the general custom of that creature is to keep always several leagues from land, and therefore, of course, they must die there.
Page 260 - Thapsua, and totally abandoned by his subjects. He killed himself, with Petreius, who had shared his good fortune and his adversity, AUC 707.
Page 257 - It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us : a year impairs ; a lustre obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory.