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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5. oldal
... lived successively at the courts of Versailles , Madrid , Lisbon , Vienna , Berlin , Constantinople , Warsaw , St. Petersburg , Rome , Florence and Naples ; then in An- spach , where she became acquainted with the margrave Christian ...
... lived successively at the courts of Versailles , Madrid , Lisbon , Vienna , Berlin , Constantinople , Warsaw , St. Petersburg , Rome , Florence and Naples ; then in An- spach , where she became acquainted with the margrave Christian ...
17. oldal
... lived in and near Giessen , occupied with the study of the Greek historians , and at the same time with teaching . About this time , he published his first literary production , Herodotus und Thucydides ; Versuch einer näheren Würdigung ...
... lived in and near Giessen , occupied with the study of the Greek historians , and at the same time with teaching . About this time , he published his first literary production , Herodotus und Thucydides ; Versuch einer näheren Würdigung ...
18. oldal
... lived mostly m Holland . Love for the sciences , in particular for literary history , induced him to devote his hours of leisure , from an extensive com- mercial business , to literary pursuits , and to collect a choice library . The ...
... lived mostly m Holland . Love for the sciences , in particular for literary history , induced him to devote his hours of leisure , from an extensive com- mercial business , to literary pursuits , and to collect a choice library . The ...
42. oldal
... lived in the sixth century before Christ . He was brave , and augmented his empire by the conquest of many provinces of Asia Minor . His riches , which he obtained chiefly from mines , and the gold dust of the river Pactolus , were ...
... lived in the sixth century before Christ . He was brave , and augmented his empire by the conquest of many provinces of Asia Minor . His riches , which he obtained chiefly from mines , and the gold dust of the river Pactolus , were ...
44. oldal
... lived , for a time , a quiet and pious life . It was at this period that he wrote to his friend St. John , that " he was ready to do and to suffer for the cause of his God . " He also held meetings of the sectaries at his house , and ...
... lived , for a time , a quiet and pious life . It was at this period that he wrote to his friend St. John , that " he was ready to do and to suffer for the cause of his God . " He also held meetings of the sectaries at his house , and ...
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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.