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 - LexiconFrancis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... France , with which Pierre Boyer ( a former Bonapartist , and a general well known by his cruelties com- mitted in Egypt , St. Domingo and Spain ) bombarded Missolonghi , from February 24 . After the bombardment had continued sev- eral ...
... France , with which Pierre Boyer ( a former Bonapartist , and a general well known by his cruelties com- mitted in Egypt , St. Domingo and Spain ) bombarded Missolonghi , from February 24 . After the bombardment had continued sev- eral ...
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... France . England and France carefully avoided such a result , that they might be able to mediate between the Porte and Russia . To defend the Morea , however , from new invasions from the Turks , the three powers at London , by their ...
... France . England and France carefully avoided such a result , that they might be able to mediate between the Porte and Russia . To defend the Morea , however , from new invasions from the Turks , the three powers at London , by their ...
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... France and Russia ( March 22 , 1829 ) , the protocol of which sets forth what course the pow- ers intend further to pursue respecting the Porte . It was agreed that ambassadors from Great Britain and France should immediately proceed to ...
... France and Russia ( March 22 , 1829 ) , the protocol of which sets forth what course the pow- ers intend further to pursue respecting the Porte . It was agreed that ambassadors from Great Britain and France should immediately proceed to ...
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... France when a young man , where he became connected with the monastery at Cluny , and returned to Rome in 1045. His his tory becomes more known after the time of his return to the monastery of Cluny , where Leo IX saw him on his journey ...
... France when a young man , where he became connected with the monastery at Cluny , and returned to Rome in 1045. His his tory becomes more known after the time of his return to the monastery of Cluny , where Leo IX saw him on his journey ...
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... France and Italy , increased the influ- ence of the Grimaldi , from whom proceed- ed several eminent men : -1 . Ranieri Gri- maldi was the first Genoese who conducted the naval forces of the republic beyond the straits of Gibraltar . In ...
... France and Italy , increased the influ- ence of the Grimaldi , from whom proceed- ed several eminent men : -1 . Ranieri Gri- maldi was the first Genoese who conducted the naval forces of the republic beyond the straits of Gibraltar . In ...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth,Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Affichage du livre entier - 1845 |
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Affichage du livre entier - 1831 |
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Affichage du livre entier - 1838 |
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Page 455 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 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 curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or...
Page 264 - Being thus doubtful in my chamber, one fair day in the summer, my casement being opened towards the south, the sun shining clear, and no wind stirring, I took my book, De Veritate...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 455 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own.
Page 204 - Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean (1795, 4to.).
Page 264 - 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.
Page 270 - ... so many monsters and tyrants. The gods applauded Jupiter's resolution ; the burning pile was suddenly surrounded with a dark smoke, and after the mortal parts of Hercules were consumed, he was carried up to heaven in a chariot drawn by four horses. Some loud claps of thunder accompanied his elevation, and his friends, unable to find either his bones or ashes, showed their gratitude to his memory by raising an altar where the burning pile had stood.
Page 49 - ... and officers under him, who sit daily. To this court is committed the charge and oversight of the king's household in matters of justice and government, with a power to correct all offenders, and to maintain the peace of the verge, or jurisdiction of the court royal, which is every way about 200 yards from the last gate of" the palace where his majesty resides.