The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 3George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1858 |
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Page 178 - verse: Westward the course of empire takes Its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring Is the last. He
Page 258 - graduated at Oxford, and was elected master of the free school of Gloucester. In the mean time he had been studying theology with great ardor, and printed for private circulation a small tract entitled, “Twelve Arguments drawn out of the Scripture, wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted.
Page 522 - It was on the 1st of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river, to wander through the wilderness of America in quest .of the country of Kentucky.
Page 223 - Mr. Betterton, though a superlatively good actor, labored under an ill figure, being clumsily made, having a great head, a short, thick neck, stooped in the shoulders, and had fat, short arms, which he rarely lifted higher than his stomach. His left hand frequently lodged in his breast between his coat and
Page 172 - Is built in the form of an amphitheatre? on the side of a rocky hill, with fortifications constructed by the most eminent architects of the 16th century, 15 churches, 12 monasteries, 10 nunneries, 4 hospitals, 6 orphan-houses, a lyceum, a school of painting and architecture, a musical academy, which produced
Page 216 - shall be annexed to the principality of Moldavia under the suzerainty of the Sublime Porte. A difference between the Russian commissioners on the one hand and the Turkish, British, and Austrian commissioners on the other, as to which of 2
Page 403 - who wished to render the prevailing system ridiculous. Hence, probably, a belief With some that a distinct system of laws, known as the blue laws, must somewhere have had a local habitation. The existence of such a code of blue laws is fully disproved. The only
Page 144 - side of the water, he saw nothing to change his mind. “The whole of the case,” to borrow his own statement, “was founded on the assumption of natural rights, claimed without the slightest evidence of their existence, and supported by vague and declamatory generalities.
Page 36 - least possible in the case given; proportioned to the crime and determined by the laws.” The opinions broached In this book became the property ¿ of Europe, and produced a marked impression
Page 580 - be broken before it can be detached. It remains there feeding on the mucus of the stomach during the whole of the winter, and until the end of the ensuing spring; when, having attained a considerable size, and being destined to undergo a certain transformation, it disengages itself from the cuticular coat, is carried into the