Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 12Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola of the latter had but a single gold stripe , whilst that of the former had stripes of gold and purple , and at the bottom a broad border or tringe ...
... feet , worn both by the rich and the poor , with this difference only , that the stola of the latter had but a single gold stripe , whilst that of the former had stripes of gold and purple , and at the bottom a broad border or tringe ...
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... feet in length , from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the nails . The prevailing color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in ...
... feet in length , from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the nails . The prevailing color of the plumage is white , with some black about the wings . It is found throughout the greater part of Eu- rope , but passes the winter in ...
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... feet long , 43 feet broad , and 564 feet high , cost nearly 60,000 dollars ; the state draw- ing - room , 50 feet by 32 , and 22 feet high , contains a collection of fine pictures , most- ly by the old masters . The library con- sists ...
... feet long , 43 feet broad , and 564 feet high , cost nearly 60,000 dollars ; the state draw- ing - room , 50 feet by 32 , and 22 feet high , contains a collection of fine pictures , most- ly by the old masters . The library con- sists ...
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... feet draught . It was formerly one of the principal Hanse towns ( See Hansa . ) It has considera- ble trade . Corn is the principal article of export , of which there are sometimes shipped from 30 to 40,000 quarters . It contains a ...
... feet draught . It was formerly one of the principal Hanse towns ( See Hansa . ) It has considera- ble trade . Corn is the principal article of export , of which there are sometimes shipped from 30 to 40,000 quarters . It contains a ...
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... feet , so the length of strophes is determined by the number of cola . Monocola are lyric poems , in which verse of a uniform char- acter is used , without division into strophes . Dicola are poems in which the strophes contain verses ...
... feet , so the length of strophes is determined by the number of cola . Monocola are lyric poems , in which verse of a uniform char- acter is used , without division into strophes . Dicola are poems in which the strophes contain verses ...
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Page 64 - 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 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 420 - ... since the commencement of the war, it will, in the opinion of this convention, be expedient for the legislatures of the several states to appoint delegates to another convention, to meet at Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, on the third Thursday of June next, with such powers and instructions as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require.
Page 411 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together 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 71 - England, at different periods, towards the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, and spread very extensively in the neighboring countries, and 011 the continent.
Page 303 - ... 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 124 - A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery- tale of the subsequent ages.
Page 447 - 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. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured.
Page 411 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic...
Page 421 - 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...