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 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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Pagina 6
... carried to the highest degree of refinement . But that unhappy period had now arrived , when the Greeks , ceasing to be free , ceased to advance in civilization . A kingdom , formed by con- quest , had grown up on the north of Greece ...
... carried to the highest degree of refinement . But that unhappy period had now arrived , when the Greeks , ceasing to be free , ceased to advance in civilization . A kingdom , formed by con- quest , had grown up on the north of Greece ...
Pagina 14
... carried to perfection ; tragedy by Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides ; comedy by Cratinus , Eupolis , Crates , but especial- ly by Aristophanes . Under the govern- ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed ...
... carried to perfection ; tragedy by Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides ; comedy by Cratinus , Eupolis , Crates , but especial- ly by Aristophanes . Under the govern- ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed ...
Pagina 20
... carried into slavery , and the flourish- ing peninsula made a desert . The monks and hermits on mount Athos ( Monte San- to ) , alone saved themselves by a heavy ransom , and remained undisturbed , be- cause the Turks consider these ...
... carried into slavery , and the flourish- ing peninsula made a desert . The monks and hermits on mount Athos ( Monte San- to ) , alone saved themselves by a heavy ransom , and remained undisturbed , be- cause the Turks consider these ...
Pagina 22
... carried on shore , where he died . The Turks were at first stupified ; but their rage soon broke out , and the last traces of cultivation , the mastic villages , so lucra- tive to the Porte , were destroyed . In Constantinople , Turks ...
... carried on shore , where he died . The Turks were at first stupified ; but their rage soon broke out , and the last traces of cultivation , the mastic villages , so lucra- tive to the Porte , were destroyed . In Constantinople , Turks ...
Pagina 25
... carried on by regular battles , but consisted of skirmishes , surprises , & c .. as every insurrection of an undisciplined people must ; and , generally speaking , it is the way in which men can most ef- fectually defend their own soil ...
... carried on by regular battles , but consisted of skirmishes , surprises , & c .. as every insurrection of an undisciplined people must ; and , generally speaking , it is the way in which men can most ef- fectually defend their own soil ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 455 - 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 322 - 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 practise the positive part of Church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America!
Pagina 322 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Pagina 455 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking, that his labours 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...
Pagina 108 - A FORM OF PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING, TO BE USED YEARLY UPON THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, For the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I. and the Three Estates of ENGLAND, from the most traiterous and bloody-intended Massacre by Gunpowder: And also for the happy Arrival of his Majesty King WILLIAM on this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation.
Pagina 206 - Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean (1795, 4to.).
Pagina 157 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Pagina 146 - As the result of his researches, he published a general chart, showing at one view the variation of the compass in all those seas where the English navigators were acquainted.
Pagina 132 - Hager published an Explanation of the elementary Characters of the Chinese, with an Analysis of their Symbols and Hieroglyphics (London, 1801, folio), and a Dissertation on the newly-discovered Babylonian Inscriptions (1801, 4to.).
Pagina 258 - Finding the men of weight averse to opposition, and the commencement of the tax at hand, and that no person was likely to step forth, I determined to venture, and alone, unadvised, and unassisted, on a blank leaf of an old law-book, wrote the within.