Encyclopaedia 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, Volume 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... century , were mainly owing to the administration , by nurses and physicians , of strong cordials , and heating stimulants of all sorts , the tendency of all of which was to increase the violence of the disease , although they were ...
... century , were mainly owing to the administration , by nurses and physicians , of strong cordials , and heating stimulants of all sorts , the tendency of all of which was to increase the violence of the disease , although they were ...
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... century , was the author of a variety of miscellaneous works , most of which have perished ; but his collection of excerpts from those of various philosophers and poets , has come down to posterity , and is important , from the ...
... century , was the author of a variety of miscellaneous works , most of which have perished ; but his collection of excerpts from those of various philosophers and poets , has come down to posterity , and is important , from the ...
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... century , to the bishop , who allowed a part to the paro- chial clergy . After that time , every pastor acquired the right to retain what he re- ceived in this way from his parishioners ; but the councils , down to the tenth cen- tury ...
... century , to the bishop , who allowed a part to the paro- chial clergy . After that time , every pastor acquired the right to retain what he re- ceived in this way from his parishioners ; but the councils , down to the tenth cen- tury ...
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... century , by Ivan Wasilie- witsch , and formed , also , the standing infantry of the empire , amounting , some- times , to 40,000 men . Their numerous privileges and their frequent insurrec- tions rendered them as formidable as the ...
... century , by Ivan Wasilie- witsch , and formed , also , the standing infantry of the empire , amounting , some- times , to 40,000 men . Their numerous privileges and their frequent insurrec- tions rendered them as formidable as the ...
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... century , was allied by marriage with the Medici , but was too much attached to the ancient republican constitution to acqui- esce in the domination of that house . When the sovereignty was assumed by Alessandro de ' Medici , he joined ...
... century , was allied by marriage with the Medici , but was too much attached to the ancient republican constitution to acqui- esce in the domination of that house . When the sovereignty was assumed by Alessandro de ' Medici , he joined ...
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Page 412 - ... into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 65 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 304 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Page 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 449 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will.
Page 422 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 448 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 412 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 448 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 446 - Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy ; and, under his superintendence discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States.