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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 18
... tion of Hudson river with that of lake Champlain , lake Ontario , lake Erie , and Delaware river . - Champlain canal is 63 ) miles in length , 40 feet wide at the sur- face , 28 feet at the bottom , and 4 feet in depth . This , and the ...
... tion of Hudson river with that of lake Champlain , lake Ontario , lake Erie , and Delaware river . - Champlain canal is 63 ) miles in length , 40 feet wide at the sur- face , 28 feet at the bottom , and 4 feet in depth . This , and the ...
Page 22
... tion includes the summit level , where a tunnel , 4 miles 80 yards long , passing un- der a ridge of the Alleghany of 856 feet elevation , is necessary , with a deep cut of 1060 yards long at the western end , and an- other deep cut of ...
... tion includes the summit level , where a tunnel , 4 miles 80 yards long , passing un- der a ridge of the Alleghany of 856 feet elevation , is necessary , with a deep cut of 1060 yards long at the western end , and an- other deep cut of ...
Page 23
... tion ; provided this extension be com- menced within five years from May , 1828 , and finished within twenty ; the canal to be a highway for the U. States , free from toll . Virginia and North Carolina . - Appo- mattox river canals ...
... tion ; provided this extension be com- menced within five years from May , 1828 , and finished within twenty ; the canal to be a highway for the U. States , free from toll . Virginia and North Carolina . - Appo- mattox river canals ...
Page 33
... tion , and the unjust form of procedure , survived ; and , until the moment when it was abolished by Napoleon ( Dec. 4 , 1808 ) , the inquisition continued to be a powerful obstacle to the progress of the human in- tellect . The ...
... tion , and the unjust form of procedure , survived ; and , until the moment when it was abolished by Napoleon ( Dec. 4 , 1808 ) , the inquisition continued to be a powerful obstacle to the progress of the human in- tellect . The ...
Page 39
... tion of the two courts may be reversed . To absolve ab instantia means to absolve a person from an accusation , without car- rying through the process . INSTINCT ( from the Latin instinctus ) ; that impulse , produced by the peculiar ...
... tion of the two courts may be reversed . To absolve ab instantia means to absolve a person from an accusation , without car- rying through the process . INSTINCT ( from the Latin instinctus ) ; that impulse , produced by the peculiar ...
Contents
1 | |
88 | |
143 | |
190 | |
230 | |
237 | |
243 | |
249 | |
354 | |
360 | |
392 | |
426 | |
434 | |
440 | |
461 | |
502 | |
293 | |
318 | |
335 | |
341 | |
343 | |
529 | |
595 | |
602 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
academy according accused acid afterwards ancient appeared appointed army Austria battle became bishop body born called canal Catholic celebrated century character Charles Christian church color command common court daughter death died distinguished duke edition emperor England English Europe father favor feet Florence former France French gave German Greek Guelfs honor inhabitants iodine iron island Italian Italy Jansenists Jesuits Jews John Jugurtha Jupiter jury king kingdom labor land language Latin Latium latter Leipsic Lombardy Louis ment Milan miles Naples Napoleon nation native obtained Paris party peace person philosophical poems poet pope possession prince principal prisoner published received reign river Roman Rome royal Russia Russian sent Sicily soon Spain species specific gravity tained tion took trial by jury Tuscany Venice vols whole wrote
Popular passages
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.