The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 13George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1875 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... river enters a valley from 5 to 10 m . wide , through which its course is so winding that within a space of 60 m . in length the river traverses 200 m . and descends 27 rapids through the ever deepening valley , until it finally enters ...
... river enters a valley from 5 to 10 m . wide , through which its course is so winding that within a space of 60 m . in length the river traverses 200 m . and descends 27 rapids through the ever deepening valley , until it finally enters ...
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... river or brook Arnon to the river Jabbok ; 2 , Gilead , N. of the Jabbok ; 3 , Decapolis , or the district of ten cities , which , as nearly as can be ascertained , were Scythopolis or Beth- shan ( which however was on the W. side of ...
... river or brook Arnon to the river Jabbok ; 2 , Gilead , N. of the Jabbok ; 3 , Decapolis , or the district of ten cities , which , as nearly as can be ascertained , were Scythopolis or Beth- shan ( which however was on the W. side of ...
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... river ; area , 974 sq . m . are Ionic . The tombs appear to be of a date The population was not returned in the census preceding the Roman conquest , most of them of 1870. The surface is broken and hilly , with containing inscriptions ...
... river ; area , 974 sq . m . are Ionic . The tombs appear to be of a date The population was not returned in the census preceding the Roman conquest , most of them of 1870. The surface is broken and hilly , with containing inscriptions ...
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... river , about 30 m .; following the line of the Panama railway , 473 m . The coast line on the Caribbean sea is about 450 m . long , and forms a reverse curve , convex from the gulf of Darien to Point Manzanillo , and concave from ...
... river , about 30 m .; following the line of the Panama railway , 473 m . The coast line on the Caribbean sea is about 450 m . long , and forms a reverse curve , convex from the gulf of Darien to Point Manzanillo , and concave from ...
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... river Chepo , which would require a long tunnel . In 1865 M. de la Charme surveyed a line from the S. part of the gulf of Darien to the gulf of San Miguel , via the river Tuira . In the same year M. de Puydt , an engi- neer employed by ...
... river Chepo , which would require a long tunnel . In 1865 M. de la Charme surveyed a line from the S. part of the gulf of Darien to the gulf of San Miguel , via the river Tuira . In the same year M. de Puydt , an engi- neer employed by ...
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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.