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 10
... tion did not prosper at once in Greece , nor display itself simultaneously among all the tribes ; that the Greeks became Greeks only in the process of time , and some tribes made more rapid progress than others . About 80 years after ...
... tion did not prosper at once in Greece , nor display itself simultaneously among all the tribes ; that the Greeks became Greeks only in the process of time , and some tribes made more rapid progress than others . About 80 years after ...
Pagina 14
... tion of the coasts of the Mediterranean , and the discoveries of Pythias of Massilia in the north - west of Europe , deserve men- tion . The study of nature was likewise pursued by the philosophers ; but the healing art , hitherto ...
... tion of the coasts of the Mediterranean , and the discoveries of Pythias of Massilia in the north - west of Europe , deserve men- tion . The study of nature was likewise pursued by the philosophers ; but the healing art , hitherto ...
Pagina 34
... tion of burning the Egyptian fleet ; the pacha had also landed fresh troops at Navarino ( August 5 ) ; he had afterwards directed his efforts against Missolonghi , in order to invest this place on the sea side . Reschid Pacha thus began ...
... tion of burning the Egyptian fleet ; the pacha had also landed fresh troops at Navarino ( August 5 ) ; he had afterwards directed his efforts against Missolonghi , in order to invest this place on the sea side . Reschid Pacha thus began ...
Pagina 39
... tion of Greece , in the name of the three powers . The first subject proposed for the consideration of the Porte was the boundary of Greece . A line , beginning at the gulf of Volo , running thence to the head of the Othryx , following ...
... tion of Greece , in the name of the three powers . The first subject proposed for the consideration of the Porte was the boundary of Greece . A line , beginning at the gulf of Volo , running thence to the head of the Othryx , following ...
Pagina 40
... tion which it was in our power to offer . A second division , under vice - admiral Sactouri , was destined for the blockade , which the admirals of the allied powers compelled us to abandon . " The address further refers to the plague ...
... tion which it was in our power to offer . A second division , under vice - admiral Sactouri , was destined for the blockade , which the admirals of the allied powers compelled us to abandon . " The address further refers to the plague ...
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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.