The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 10Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... province of the kingdom of Saxony , which takes its name from the mountains which bound it on the south and separate it from the kingdom of Bohemia . On the north it is bounded by the circle of Leipzig and by the duchy of Saxe ...
... province of the kingdom of Saxony , which takes its name from the mountains which bound it on the south and separate it from the kingdom of Bohemia . On the north it is bounded by the circle of Leipzig and by the duchy of Saxe ...
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... province also includes the independent earldom of Solm - Wildenfels , with an area of 31 square miles , the 6200 inhabitants of which are principally employed in making linen , coarse cottons , and stockings ; and the possessions of the ...
... province also includes the independent earldom of Solm - Wildenfels , with an area of 31 square miles , the 6200 inhabitants of which are principally employed in making linen , coarse cottons , and stockings ; and the possessions of the ...
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... provinces of what was Austrian Flanders , the antient untitled nobility , or gentry as they are called in England , to this day are styled collec- tively the Ordre Equestre , or knightly order . It also existed in England until James ...
... provinces of what was Austrian Flanders , the antient untitled nobility , or gentry as they are called in England , to this day are styled collec- tively the Ordre Equestre , or knightly order . It also existed in England until James ...
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... province of Canterbury ; and is di- vided between the three archdeaconries of Colchester , Essex , and Middlesex . The office of rural dean has been disused for many years ; the county is , however , still di- vided into deaneries ...
... province of Canterbury ; and is di- vided between the three archdeaconries of Colchester , Essex , and Middlesex . The office of rural dean has been disused for many years ; the county is , however , still di- vided into deaneries ...
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... province of Ulster was in a stato tary popularity and power might prevail in that country , he accepted the commission of lord lieutenant of Ireland . His government in that country was inconsiderate and ill- advised ; and his ...
... province of Ulster was in a stato tary popularity and power might prevail in that country , he accepted the commission of lord lieutenant of Ireland . His government in that country was inconsiderate and ill- advised ; and his ...
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Page 171 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 171 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his living honestly...
Page 41 - Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Page 223 - ... qualities, the seller was to forfeit to the buyer the third part of its value. If any one stole or killed the cat that guarded the prince's granary, he was to forfeit a milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat suspended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former.
Page 289 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 289 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 171 - ... nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward ; the little King-bird, not bigger than a Sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district. He is, therefore, by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven...
Page 289 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 102 - The being and existence of the thing itself is what I call the original truth. A credible man vouching his knowledge of it is a good proof: but if another equally credible do witness it from his report, the testimony is weaker; and a third that attests the hear-say of an hear-say, is yet less considerable.
Page 246 - ... know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the custom and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me god and his saints; and he shall kiss the book.