Encyclopędia 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
... death , was frustrat- ed by Antipater . The Lamian war , af- ter the death of Alexander , was equally unsuccessful . Greece was now little bet- ter than a Macedonian province . Luxury had enervated the ancient courage and energy of the ...
... death , was frustrat- ed by Antipater . The Lamian war , af- ter the death of Alexander , was equally unsuccessful . Greece was now little bet- ter than a Macedonian province . Luxury had enervated the ancient courage and energy of the ...
Pagina 17
... death ; the flight of some rendered all guilty ; it was prohibited under penalty of death ; in the divan , the total extinction of the Greek name was proposed ; Turkish troops marched into the principalities ; the hos- podar Suzzo was ...
... death ; the flight of some rendered all guilty ; it was prohibited under penalty of death ; in the divan , the total extinction of the Greek name was proposed ; Turkish troops marched into the principalities ; the hos- podar Suzzo was ...
Pagina 18
... death . Almost the whole war was thenceforward a succession of atrocities . It was not a war prosecuted on any fixed plan , but merely a series of devastations and mur- ders . The law of nations could not exist between the Turks and ...
... death . Almost the whole war was thenceforward a succession of atrocities . It was not a war prosecuted on any fixed plan , but merely a series of devastations and mur- ders . The law of nations could not exist between the Turks and ...
Pagina 22
... death , rowed with their scampavias ( a kind of gunboats ) into the midst of the fleet of the enemy , which still lay in the road of Scio ; and in the night of June 18 , 1822 , captain George attached fire - ships to the ship of the cap ...
... death , rowed with their scampavias ( a kind of gunboats ) into the midst of the fleet of the enemy , which still lay in the road of Scio ; and in the night of June 18 , 1822 , captain George attached fire - ships to the ship of the cap ...
Pagina 35
... death or victory . Ibrahim assaulted the works of Missolonghi from February 28 to March 2. On this day , he attacked the place by sea and land , but was wholly repulsed , with the loss of 4000 men ; so that Missolonghi was , for the ...
... death or victory . Ibrahim assaulted the works of Missolonghi from February 28 to March 2. On this day , he attacked the place by sea and land , but was wholly repulsed , with the loss of 4000 men ; so that Missolonghi was , for the ...
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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.