The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 13George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1875 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... afterward lived abroad till 1861 , when he returned to Pesth . He has published several novels . be obeyed ; but if a legitimate government is injurious to the public welfare , it should be overthrown . He affirms that the " divine ...
... afterward lived abroad till 1861 , when he returned to Pesth . He has published several novels . be obeyed ; but if a legitimate government is injurious to the public welfare , it should be overthrown . He affirms that the " divine ...
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... afterward rubbed smooth with pumice stone or with a polishing tool . The success of the erasure depended materially on the kind of ink with which the writing was executed . If vegetable , it was easily expunged , as it did not strike ...
... afterward rubbed smooth with pumice stone or with a polishing tool . The success of the erasure depended materially on the kind of ink with which the writing was executed . If vegetable , it was easily expunged , as it did not strike ...
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... afterward to the see of Aspona in Galatia . He was an adherent of Origen . He wrote a collection of biographi- cal notices and anecdotes , generally known as " the Lausiac history , " from being addressed to Lausus , a chamberlain at ...
... afterward to the see of Aspona in Galatia . He was an adherent of Origen . He wrote a collection of biographi- cal notices and anecdotes , generally known as " the Lausiac history , " from being addressed to Lausus , a chamberlain at ...
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... afterward to Pas- chal II . The emperors refused to sanction the grant , inasmuch as Matilda , being a vassal of the empire , could not alienate her rights of sovereignty . Innocent III . was the first pope who made his states really ...
... afterward to Pas- chal II . The emperors refused to sanction the grant , inasmuch as Matilda , being a vassal of the empire , could not alienate her rights of sovereignty . Innocent III . was the first pope who made his states really ...
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... afterward as the 92 resolu- tions . After supporting them in the house , at the close of the session he went through the country urging a constitutional resistance to the imperial government . He advised the colonists not to vote ...
... afterward as the 92 resolu- tions . After supporting them in the house , at the close of the session he went through the country urging a constitutional resistance to the imperial government . He advised the colonists not to vote ...
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Page 158 - Provided also, and be it declared and enacted, That any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patents and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, hereafter to be made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use...
Page 254 - Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland...
Page 252 - But his writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. He had no skill in reading the characters of others. His confidence in persons less virtuous than himself led him into great errors and misfortunes. His enthusiasm for one great principle sometimes impelled him to violate other great principles which he ought to have held sacred.
Page 253 - ... received any gratuity from those whom he had obliged, though he might easily, while his influence at court lasted, have made a hundred and twenty thousand pounds.' To this assertion full credit is due. But bribes may be offered to vanity as well as to cupidity ; and it is impossible to deny that Penn was cajoled into bearing a part in some unjustifiable transactions of which others enjoyed the profits.
Page 161 - SEC. 27-A. Whenever any patent is wholly or partly, inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his own invention more than he had a right to claim as new...
Page 264 - The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall extend over the State, and the judges thereof shall, by virtue of their offices, be justices of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery in the several counties; they shall have original jurisdiction in cases of injunction where a corporation is a party defendant, of habeas corpus, of mandamus to courts of inferior jurisdiction, and of quo warranto as to all officers of the Commonwealth whose jurisdiction extends over the State...
Page 411 - Philip the Second, was a small, meagre man, much below the middle height, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid.
Page 160 - Office a written description of the invention or discovery, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or witli which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 480 - We have, further, the spectacle of an underground insect possessing the power of existence even when confined to its subterranean retreats. It spreads in the wingless state from vine to vine, and from vineyard to vineyard, when these are adjacent, either through passages in the ground itself or over the surface ; at the same time it is able in the winged condition to migrate to much more distant points.
Page 7 - In Judaea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that whilst for miles and miles there is no appearance of present life or habitation, except the occasional goat-herd on the hill-side, or gathering of women at the wells, there is yet hardly a hill-top of the many within sight which is not covered by the vestiges of some fortress or city of former ages.