The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, 6. köideGeorge Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1874 |
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... four deep , each 32 ft . high and nearly 22 ft . in circumference . The capitals have a full face of the presiding divinity on each of their four sides ; the architrave is covered like the portal with sculptures representing a religious ...
... four deep , each 32 ft . high and nearly 22 ft . in circumference . The capitals have a full face of the presiding divinity on each of their four sides ; the architrave is covered like the portal with sculptures representing a religious ...
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... four years in the line and four years in the reserve ; and every person who has served his time is also liable to be enrolled under the second call . The infantry numbers 20 battalions of the line and 10 of the reserve , besides a ...
... four years in the line and four years in the reserve ; and every person who has served his time is also liable to be enrolled under the second call . The infantry numbers 20 battalions of the line and 10 of the reserve , besides a ...
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... four different lines of trenches , after a two months ' siege ( April 18 ) . Soon afterward the fortress of Fridericia surrendered to the Austrians . After protracted negotiations , peace was concluded at Vienna , Oct. 30 , 1864 , by ...
... four different lines of trenches , after a two months ' siege ( April 18 ) . Soon afterward the fortress of Fridericia surrendered to the Austrians . After protracted negotiations , peace was concluded at Vienna , Oct. 30 , 1864 , by ...
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... four Jewish cemeteries . Eight lines of railroad radiate from Detroit , viz .: the Michi- gan Central , extending to Chicago ; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern , to Buffalo and Chicago ; the Detroit and Milwaukee , to Grand Haven ...
... four Jewish cemeteries . Eight lines of railroad radiate from Detroit , viz .: the Michi- gan Central , extending to Chicago ; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern , to Buffalo and Chicago ; the Detroit and Milwaukee , to Grand Haven ...
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... four commissioners appointed by the gover- nor of the state . The fire department , man- aged by four commissioners , has seven steam fire engines , two hook and ladder companies , and a fire alarm telegraph . The water works , valued ...
... four commissioners appointed by the gover- nor of the state . The fire department , man- aged by four commissioners , has seven steam fire engines , two hook and ladder companies , and a fire alarm telegraph . The water works , valued ...
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Page 423 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 138 - Essay on the Literary Character," Vol. II. chap. xxv. He was himself a complete literary character, a man who really passed his life in his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls.
Page 177 - An Epistolary Discourse, proving, from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to Punishment, or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is proved, that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.
Page 90 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition thereto. I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's...
Page 150 - That a district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located, as hereafter directed, on the River Potomac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch and Connogocheague, be, and the same is hereby, accepted for the permanent seat of government of the United States...
Page 384 - THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Page 112 - ... he adds this most remarkable sentence : — " I think we cannot account for these appearances, unless we call in the aid of ice as well as water, and that they have been worn by being suspended and carried in ice over rocks and earth under water.
Page 372 - DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 266 - Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly, fifteen times only in a minute. (When the patient lies on the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place. When he is turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration occurs.) 6th. When the...
Page 28 - But this is a subject foreign to my present purposes; it is sufficient to say that a chorus, &c., of elaborate harmony displayed before me, as in a piece of arras work, the whole of my past life — not as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music; no longer painful to dwell upon; but the detail of its incidents removed or blended in some hazy abstraction, and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed.