The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 2Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1898 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... America three times , in order to make further researches . In 1831 , he began the publication of his American Ornithological Biography in Edinburgh , which was also completed in 1839. In 1839 , A. finally returned to America , where ...
... America three times , in order to make further researches . In 1831 , he began the publication of his American Ornithological Biography in Edinburgh , which was also completed in 1839. In 1839 , A. finally returned to America , where ...
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... AMERICA , may be said to run respectively on a meridian and a parallel . The parallel in question is that of about 25 ° , near y the mean lat . of A .: and the meridian is that of 142 ° or 143 ° , nearly the mean long . of Australasia ...
... AMERICA , may be said to run respectively on a meridian and a parallel . The parallel in question is that of about 25 ° , near y the mean lat . of A .: and the meridian is that of 142 ° or 143 ° , nearly the mean long . of Australasia ...
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... America , to hew his way through dense forests , with tangled underwood , sees around him either open pastures or park - like woods overshadowing their green sward . His main difficulty is the scarcity of water , or rather the ...
... America , to hew his way through dense forests , with tangled underwood , sees around him either open pastures or park - like woods overshadowing their green sward . His main difficulty is the scarcity of water , or rather the ...
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... America . It attains the height of 30 to 70 ft . , and is a slender tree with a dome - like top . The leaves resemble those of the laurel . The flowers are small , and produced towards the extremities of the branches . The fruit is a ...
... America . It attains the height of 30 to 70 ft . , and is a slender tree with a dome - like top . The leaves resemble those of the laurel . The flowers are small , and produced towards the extremities of the branches . The fruit is a ...
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... America as the " Pride of China . " He AZAIS , PIERRE HYACINTHE , 1766-1845 ; a French author and philosopher . was a teacher in the college at Tarbes , but not liking the duties he became secretary to the bishop of Oleron ; he soon ...
... America as the " Pride of China . " He AZAIS , PIERRE HYACINTHE , 1766-1845 ; a French author and philosopher . was a teacher in the college at Tarbes , but not liking the duties he became secretary to the bishop of Oleron ; he soon ...
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Page 312 - The general law of the land is in favor of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial, still, as it is the law of the land, the court must pronounce judgment for it.
Page 414 - In 1836 he was elected professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
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Page 238 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 413 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras ; suggesting a System by which a School or Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Page 204 - Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the (Red) sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 412 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Page 426 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 361 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 199 - They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated it would hang down motionless, and this was often proved to be so.