The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 14Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1899 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... French Strasbourg . It became a free town of the German empire , and in 1681 passed with the rest of Alsace into the hands of the French , under whom its population and prosperity greatly increased . On Sept. 28 , 1870 , after a ...
... French Strasbourg . It became a free town of the German empire , and in 1681 passed with the rest of Alsace into the hands of the French , under whom its population and prosperity greatly increased . On Sept. 28 , 1870 , after a ...
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... French language which he did not possess , but he soon taught himself sufficient to be able to read mathematical works in French as well as in English or Latin . In 1827 , upon a second invitation from Rutgers Strongylus . college ...
... French language which he did not possess , but he soon taught himself sufficient to be able to read mathematical works in French as well as in English or Latin . In 1827 , upon a second invitation from Rutgers Strongylus . college ...
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... French vessel , in which her husband , who had escaped from the Tower , was also to sail . He did not reach it , and it sailed and was captured . He escaped , however , in another vessel . Arabella spent the rest of her life in the ...
... French vessel , in which her husband , who had escaped from the Tower , was also to sail . He did not reach it , and it sailed and was captured . He escaped , however , in another vessel . Arabella spent the rest of her life in the ...
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... French monarch , by various ill - advised acts , chiefly by his support of the elder pretender ( the son of James II . ) , whom he recognized as sovereign of Britain , and by occupation of the Netherlands and menacing treatment of ...
... French monarch , by various ill - advised acts , chiefly by his support of the elder pretender ( the son of James II . ) , whom he recognized as sovereign of Britain , and by occupation of the Netherlands and menacing treatment of ...
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... French , equal in strength , were now directed by Villars , the most enterpris ing and fortunate of their generals ; but his star , which had hitherto been constantly in the ascendant , fell before that of Marlborough at Malplaquet ...
... French , equal in strength , were now directed by Villars , the most enterpris ing and fortunate of their generals ; but his star , which had hitherto been constantly in the ascendant , fell before that of Marlborough at Malplaquet ...
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Page 381 - NOW the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. 17 THE salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle : so I write.
Page 242 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Page 103 - VIII. c. 1, declared the king and his successors to be the ' only supreme head on earth of the Church of England.
Page 17 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Page 116 - No other effectual duty is known for virtuous women, at any time after the death of their lords, except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she be not exempted from springing again to life in the body of some female animal.
Page 266 - In some species, they are modified to serve as formidable weapons of offence and defence ; in others, as aids in locomotion, means of anchorage, instruments for uprooting or cutting •down trees, or for transport and working of building materials. They are characteristic of age and sex ; and in man they have secondary relations, subservient to beauty and to speech. Teeth are always intimately related to the food and habits of the animal, and are therefore highly interesting to the physiologist ;...
Page 85 - ... and cursing and swearing in a manner so horrid as to convey to any serious mind an idea of hell rather than any other place.
Page 267 - Teeth consisting of dentine and vaso-dentine are very common iu fishes, the hard dentine being external, and performing the office of enamel. Dentine and cement, the latter forming a thick outer layer, constitute the grinding teeth of the dugong. In the teeth of the sloth, the hard dentine is reduced to a thin layer, and the chief bulk of the tooth consists of vaso-dentine internally, and a thick crust of cement externally. " The human teeth and those of the...
Page 130 - He published short treatises on algebra, giving the first account in Sweden of the differential and integral calculus ; on a mode of finding the longitude at sea by the moon ; on decimal money and measures ; on the motion and position of the earth and planets; on the depth of the sea, and greater force of the tides in the ancient world ; on docks, sluices, and saltworks ; and on chemistry as atomic geometry. In 1724 he was offered the professorship of mathematics at Upsal, which he declined from...
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