The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 13George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1875 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... principal places of Samaria and Galilee , and was the rendezvous of Barak from which he rushed down to the defeat of Sisera . In the middle ages it was the resort of many hermits . It is now covered with ruins of a fortress of Saracenic ...
... principal places of Samaria and Galilee , and was the rendezvous of Barak from which he rushed down to the defeat of Sisera . In the middle ages it was the resort of many hermits . It is now covered with ruins of a fortress of Saracenic ...
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... principal beasts of tion to say that , while for miles and miles burden . Asses and mules are much used for there is no appearance of present life or habi- riding , and fine Arabian horses are sometimes tation , except the occasional ...
... principal beasts of tion to say that , while for miles and miles burden . Asses and mules are much used for there is no appearance of present life or habi- riding , and fine Arabian horses are sometimes tation , except the occasional ...
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... principal of a normal college , assistant in the educational department of the privy council , and private secretary to Earl Granville . His principal works are : " Idyls and Songs " ( London , 1854 ) ; " Essays on Art " ( 1866 ) ; A ...
... principal of a normal college , assistant in the educational department of the privy council , and private secretary to Earl Granville . His principal works are : " Idyls and Songs " ( London , 1854 ) ; " Essays on Art " ( 1866 ) ; A ...
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... principal buildings are the captain general's palace , the exchange , the city hall , and several churches and convents . The public institutions embrace a naval school , a seminary , a theatre , and sev- eral hospitals . Wool and silk ...
... principal buildings are the captain general's palace , the exchange , the city hall , and several churches and convents . The public institutions embrace a naval school , a seminary , a theatre , and sev- eral hospitals . Wool and silk ...
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... principal works are : " Observations in defence of the Liberty of Man as a Moral Agent , " in reply to Dr. Priestley's " Illustrations of Phi- losophical Necessity " ( 8vo , London , 1779 ) ; an appendix to that production , and a ...
... principal works are : " Observations in defence of the Liberty of Man as a Moral Agent , " in reply to Dr. Priestley's " Illustrations of Phi- losophical Necessity " ( 8vo , London , 1779 ) ; an appendix to that production , and a ...
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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.