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, Volume 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... land in the county of Oneida . The exertions of colonel Hamilton and general Washington sub- sequently procured him an annuity of $ 2500 , from the general government . He built a log house , and cleared 60 acres of his tract of land ...
... land in the county of Oneida . The exertions of colonel Hamilton and general Washington sub- sequently procured him an annuity of $ 2500 , from the general government . He built a log house , and cleared 60 acres of his tract of land ...
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... land and water as from the unevenness of the ground on which it is built . The view from the higher grounds embraces edifices of all sorts , and vessels at anchor , or sailing across the channels , and is terminated by mountains , with ...
... land and water as from the unevenness of the ground on which it is built . The view from the higher grounds embraces edifices of all sorts , and vessels at anchor , or sailing across the channels , and is terminated by mountains , with ...
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... land stove , of which we have an almost infinite variety of modifications , is an iron box , of an oblong square form , intended to stand in the middle of a room . The air is admitted to the fire through a small opening in the door ...
... land stove , of which we have an almost infinite variety of modifications , is an iron box , of an oblong square form , intended to stand in the middle of a room . The air is admitted to the fire through a small opening in the door ...
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... land . From his papers , Howes publish- ed a folio volume , entitled Stow's Chron- icle , which does not , however , contain the whole of the larger work , which he had left , transcribed for the press , and which is said to have fallen ...
... land . From his papers , Howes publish- ed a folio volume , entitled Stow's Chron- icle , which does not , however , contain the whole of the larger work , which he had left , transcribed for the press , and which is said to have fallen ...
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... land , he was sent for from Ireland , and created earl of Strafford , and knight of the garter . He returned with the full title of lord lieutenant , with a view to gain subsidies and troops , in which he fully succeeded ; and , again ...
... land , he was sent for from Ireland , and created earl of Strafford , and knight of the garter . He returned with the full title of lord lieutenant , with a view to gain subsidies and troops , in which he fully succeeded ; and , again ...
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