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, 13. kötetFrancis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code enact- was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
... sources , in order that the provinces might retain their ancient laws , but that the obligatory force of the law might pro- ceed from his own authority . This code enact- was not abolished till about the middle of the seventh 1 *
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... ancient collection of Spanish laws , the Fuero juzgo , or Forum Judicum , is drawn from the ancient laws of the Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The ...
... ancient collection of Spanish laws , the Fuero juzgo , or Forum Judicum , is drawn from the ancient laws of the Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The ...
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... ancient system of valleys , in a chain of primary mountains , having been filled up , to the depth of ma- ny thousand feet , with various volcanic products . Five active volcanoes traverse Mexico from west to east ; viz . Tuxtla ...
... ancient system of valleys , in a chain of primary mountains , having been filled up , to the depth of ma- ny thousand feet , with various volcanic products . Five active volcanoes traverse Mexico from west to east ; viz . Tuxtla ...
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... ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks , but with a flattish summit , where the remains of an ancient crater , nearly filled up , had left a slight depression , covered in its interior ...
... ancient cone was of a very regular form , terminating , not , as at present , in two peaks , but with a flattish summit , where the remains of an ancient crater , nearly filled up , had left a slight depression , covered in its interior ...
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... ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livý calls them the eternal enemies of Rome . Their principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio ...
... ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livý calls them the eternal enemies of Rome . Their principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio ...
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237. oldal - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
174. oldal - A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREVAILING RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS of PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity.
465. oldal - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
477. oldal - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
443. oldal - Quarrels of Authors; or, some Memoirs for our Literary History ; including Specimens of Controversy, to the reign of Elizabeth,
80. oldal - ... opportunity to strike an important blow never passed away unused. He has been termed the American Fabius; but those who compare his actions with his means will perceive at least as much of Marcellus as of Fabius in his character. He could not have been more enterprising without endangering the cause he defended, nor have put more to hazard without incurring justly the imputation of rashness. Not relying upon those chances which sometimes give a...
147. oldal - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
452. oldal - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right' (4 Bl. Com. 247) ; or, more recently, as 'a false making, a making malo animo, of any written instrument, for the purpose of fraud and deceit...
258. oldal - ... a philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society ; and to be entitled, The Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a Poet living in retirement.
106. oldal - White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.