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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... less fertile , in which , except during periodical droughts , that sometimes reduce the surface to a condition not unlike that of a beaten road , the rain - fall is sufficient to revive the dor- mant germs of vegetable life , and to ...
... less fertile , in which , except during periodical droughts , that sometimes reduce the surface to a condition not unlike that of a beaten road , the rain - fall is sufficient to revive the dor- mant germs of vegetable life , and to ...
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... less " mysterious " than the Darling , contributes such surplus as it from time to time may have , forms the chief strand of a complicated net - work of water - courses . The Darling , after it has received all its tributaries , pursues ...
... less " mysterious " than the Darling , contributes such surplus as it from time to time may have , forms the chief strand of a complicated net - work of water - courses . The Darling , after it has received all its tributaries , pursues ...
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... less than 30,000 . The natives of New Zealand ( q . v . ) are Maoris , and belong to the Polynesian group . COLONY . Sq . Miles . Value of Population . Exports . Imports . Wool Exp'd . Gold . Copper . Culti- Land under Public Rev- enue ...
... less than 30,000 . The natives of New Zealand ( q . v . ) are Maoris , and belong to the Polynesian group . COLONY . Sq . Miles . Value of Population . Exports . Imports . Wool Exp'd . Gold . Copper . Culti- Land under Public Rev- enue ...
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... less suitable for colo- nization , and that only to that portion of it lying in the center in lat . 27 ° to 25 ° s . can the term desert be with justice permanently applied . Yet Sturt's desert was certainly no fancy , and his route to ...
... less suitable for colo- nization , and that only to that portion of it lying in the center in lat . 27 ° to 25 ° s . can the term desert be with justice permanently applied . Yet Sturt's desert was certainly no fancy , and his route to ...
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... less famous for its school of rhetoric . A. was pillaged by the Saracens in 725 , and nearly destroyed by the Normans in 888. There still exist at A. many ruins of Roman tem- ples , gates , triumphal arches , and other antiquities . At ...
... less famous for its school of rhetoric . A. was pillaged by the Saracens in 725 , and nearly destroyed by the Normans in 888. There still exist at A. many ruins of Roman tem- ples , gates , triumphal arches , and other antiquities . At ...
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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.