Encyclopædia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, 4. kötetFrancis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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12. oldal
... continued to have the preference , and the Creoles were treated with the arrogance which too often dis- tinguishes the conduct of the natives of a parent country towards colonists ; and the consequence was great exacerbation of feeling ...
... continued to have the preference , and the Creoles were treated with the arrogance which too often dis- tinguishes the conduct of the natives of a parent country towards colonists ; and the consequence was great exacerbation of feeling ...
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... continued to prevail in Europe for centuries after . His work was no sooner published , than it spread throughout Eu- rope . It was translated into several Eu- ropean languages , particularly for Charles V of France , in a splendid ...
... continued to prevail in Europe for centuries after . His work was no sooner published , than it spread throughout Eu- rope . It was translated into several Eu- ropean languages , particularly for Charles V of France , in a splendid ...
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... continued his dissolute habits , and had a quarrel with his uncle . There was a restlessness in his nature , which made strong excitements necessary to him ; but he early renounced the vices and follies of his youth , when , at 21 , he ...
... continued his dissolute habits , and had a quarrel with his uncle . There was a restlessness in his nature , which made strong excitements necessary to him ; but he early renounced the vices and follies of his youth , when , at 21 , he ...
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... continued , their vol- untary exposure , and the eagerness with which they fly about a particular spot , are almost always successful in withdrawing the sportsman from the place where the young actually are . As soon as they have ...
... continued , their vol- untary exposure , and the eagerness with which they fly about a particular spot , are almost always successful in withdrawing the sportsman from the place where the young actually are . As soon as they have ...
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... continued ; as , a is the root , a a the square , and a a a the cube . CUBE ROOT of any number or quantity is a number or quantity , which , if multiplied into itself , and then again by the product thence arising , gives a product ...
... continued ; as , a is the root , a a the square , and a a a the cube . CUBE ROOT of any number or quantity is a number or quantity , which , if multiplied into itself , and then again by the product thence arising , gives a product ...
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134. oldal - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." " The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
260. oldal - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
484. oldal - Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
362. oldal - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the object of his attention; the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
113. oldal - History of the Civil Wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster; the unfinished state of which he frequently laments.
362. oldal - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
363. oldal - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
10. oldal - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person.
326. oldal - ... and cannot help himself by alleging that he was first struck by the deceased ; or that he had often declined to meet him, and was prevailed upon to do it by his importunity ; or that it was his intent only to vindicate his reputation ;(/) or that he meant not to kill, but only to disarm his adversary. (</) He has deliberately engaged in an act, highly unlawful, in defiance of the laws, and he must at his peril abide the consequences...
325. oldal - ... that to this absurd custom, we must ascribe in some degree the extraordinary gentleness and complaisance of modern manners, and that respectful attention of one man to another, which, at present, render the social intercourses of life far more agreeable and decent, than among the most civilized nations of antiquity.