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 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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Pagina 3
... chief planta- tion having formerly been on the isthmus of this name . There are 40 kinds of Gre- cian grapes known . The honey of this country is very famous . ( See Hymettus . ) Greece produces all the necessaries of life , and there ...
... chief planta- tion having formerly been on the isthmus of this name . There are 40 kinds of Gre- cian grapes known . The honey of this country is very famous . ( See Hymettus . ) Greece produces all the necessaries of life , and there ...
Pagina 17
... chief , proclaim- ed that the Morea had shaken off the yoke of Turkey to save the Christian faith , and to restore the ancient character of their country . " From Europe , nothing is wanted but money , arms and counsel . " From that ...
... chief , proclaim- ed that the Morea had shaken off the yoke of Turkey to save the Christian faith , and to restore the ancient character of their country . " From Europe , nothing is wanted but money , arms and counsel . " From that ...
Pagina 20
... chief ) of the Peloponnesus , the Archipelago , and all the liberated provinces , and , as such , in being placed at the head of the Greeks in the Morea , where the dis- sensions among the capitani , and the un- disciplined state of the ...
... chief ) of the Peloponnesus , the Archipelago , and all the liberated provinces , and , as such , in being placed at the head of the Greeks in the Morea , where the dis- sensions among the capitani , and the un- disciplined state of the ...
Pagina 21
... chief command in the Morea , Ulysses with the same office in Thessaly , and somewhat later also in Attica . Prince Mavrocordato received the chief command in the Albanian provinces . They final- ly sent prince Cantacuzeno to the empe ...
... chief command in the Morea , Ulysses with the same office in Thessaly , and somewhat later also in Attica . Prince Mavrocordato received the chief command in the Albanian provinces . They final- ly sent prince Cantacuzeno to the empe ...
Pagina 24
... chief command , and , in the latter part of June , occupied the defiles between Patras , Argos and Corinth , by which he cut off the connexion of the Turks in Thessaly with Khurshid . The skirmishing began on all sides , and con- tinued ...
... chief command , and , in the latter part of June , occupied the defiles between Patras , Argos and Corinth , by which he cut off the connexion of the Turks in Thessaly with Khurshid . The skirmishing began on all sides , and con- tinued ...
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Pagina 451 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labors and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Pagina 254 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Pagina 254 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
Pagina 436 - Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.
Pagina 130 - And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Pagina 318 - Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there. We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practice the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America.
Pagina 254 - I determined to venture, and alone, unadvised, and unassisted, on a blank leaf of an old law-book wrote the within.
Pagina 503 - ... the pneumatic apparatus. Or, slips of sheet zinc, iron filings or turnings, or small iron nails, are introduced into a small gas-bottle with a bent tube, or into a common retort, upon which sulphuric acid, diluted with five or six times its weight of water, is poured; effervescence ensues, and the escaping gas may be collected in the usual manner. One troy ounce (480 grains) of zinc gives 356 oz. measures = about 676 cubic inches; and 1 ounce of iron, 412 oz.
Pagina 262 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, for it was like nothing on earth, which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Pagina 382 - My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C.