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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... hand , however , it must be owned , to his honor , that , by his skillful internal administra tion , he raised his country far above the level of any other in Germany , introducing valuable reforms both in jurisprudence and finance ...
... hand , however , it must be owned , to his honor , that , by his skillful internal administra tion , he raised his country far above the level of any other in Germany , introducing valuable reforms both in jurisprudence and finance ...
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... hand - glasses being placed over them during heavy rains . The seed is sown either in autumn or spring , generally in boxes placed under shelter , or in a slight hot - bed . The more weakly plants are tended with particular care , as ...
... hand - glasses being placed over them during heavy rains . The seed is sown either in autumn or spring , generally in boxes placed under shelter , or in a slight hot - bed . The more weakly plants are tended with particular care , as ...
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... hand , some observers of eminence assert that the aurora sometimes descends to the region of the clouds , and appears almost as a local phenomenon . A brilliant aurora was seen by Mr. Farquharson , the minister of Alford , in ...
... hand , some observers of eminence assert that the aurora sometimes descends to the region of the clouds , and appears almost as a local phenomenon . A brilliant aurora was seen by Mr. Farquharson , the minister of Alford , in ...
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... hand , or a bloom- ing well - watered expanse on the other . It is in reality a surface covered with soil more or less fertile ; the basaltic rocks and clays being the most , and quartz , sandstone , and granite least fertile ; and the ...
... hand , or a bloom- ing well - watered expanse on the other . It is in reality a surface covered with soil more or less fertile ; the basaltic rocks and clays being the most , and quartz , sandstone , and granite least fertile ; and the ...
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... hand freed A. from the Lombardo - Venetian debt of about 35,000,000 florins . The budget estimates for " the common affairs of the monarchy " for 1872 were : revenue , 17,208,883 ; expenditure , 110,647,498 florins ; leaving a deficit ...
... hand freed A. from the Lombardo - Venetian debt of about 35,000,000 florins . The budget estimates for " the common affairs of the monarchy " for 1872 were : revenue , 17,208,883 ; expenditure , 110,647,498 florins ; leaving a deficit ...
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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.
Page 26 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
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.