The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volumul 3George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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Pagina 17
... contains a courthouse , a jail , 1 or 2 churches , and several seminaries . It is a place of extensive trade , chiefly in tur- pentine and resins . The shipping of the dis- trict , June 30 , 1852 , amounted to 776 tons reg- istered ...
... contains a courthouse , a jail , 1 or 2 churches , and several seminaries . It is a place of extensive trade , chiefly in tur- pentine and resins . The shipping of the dis- trict , June 30 , 1852 , amounted to 776 tons reg- istered ...
Pagina 44
... contains some district offices , and 2 churches , and enjoys important privileges . Pop . about 12,600 . BED AND BEDSTEAD . By bed is gener- ally understood a sack containing something more or less soft to sleep upon , and by bed- stead ...
... contains some district offices , and 2 churches , and enjoys important privileges . Pop . about 12,600 . BED AND BEDSTEAD . By bed is gener- ally understood a sack containing something more or less soft to sleep upon , and by bed- stead ...
Pagina 53
... contain the fecundating principle of flowers , and is so abundant that the bees of a single hive will often bring in a ... contains albuminous compounds , which would probably prove , on analysis , similar to the gluten of wheat . Honey ...
... contain the fecundating principle of flowers , and is so abundant that the bees of a single hive will often bring in a ... contains albuminous compounds , which would probably prove , on analysis , similar to the gluten of wheat . Honey ...
Pagina 62
... contains a peculiar periderma . The wood is yellowish- white in the common beech , brownish in the red ; very hard ... contain fagine , a peculiar nar- cotic extractive principle . BEECHER , LYMAN , D. D. , an American cler- gyman , born ...
... contains a peculiar periderma . The wood is yellowish- white in the common beech , brownish in the red ; very hard ... contain fagine , a peculiar nar- cotic extractive principle . BEECHER , LYMAN , D. D. , an American cler- gyman , born ...
Pagina 74
... contains a number of islands . The Begsheher river serves to discharge the waters of this lake into Lake Soglah . Its length is about 25 miles . On the banks of this river stands the town of the same name . It is built on both sides of ...
... contains a number of islands . The Begsheher river serves to discharge the waters of this lake into Lake Soglah . Its length is about 25 miles . On the banks of this river stands the town of the same name . It is built on both sides of ...
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Pagina 37 - NY, and when it became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in 1813 he was appointed as its president.
Pagina 170 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 34 - That a punishment may not be an act of violence, of one, or of many against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate, and necessary ; the least 'possible in the case given ; proportioned to the crime, and 'determined by the laws.
Pagina 41 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Pagina 112 - ... impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described.
Pagina 335 - This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.
Pagina 112 - After getting through these passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions ; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the...
Pagina 16 - His wit and his folly, his acuteness and maliciousness, his merriment and reasoning, are now over. Such another will not often be found among mankind.
Pagina 112 - It was choked with mummies, and I could not pass without putting my face in contact with that of some decayed Egyptian; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on ; however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs, arms, and heads rolling from above. Thus I proceeded from one cave to another, all full of mummies piled up in various ways, some standing, some lying, and some on their heads.
Pagina 92 - Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...