The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana, المجلد 8 |
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... common school education , went to Philadel- phia at the age of 17 , and his name appears in the directory of that city for 1785 as that of a miniature painter . Mechanical pursuits , how- ever , even in his youth mingled with those of ...
... common school education , went to Philadel- phia at the age of 17 , and his name appears in the directory of that city for 1785 as that of a miniature painter . Mechanical pursuits , how- ever , even in his youth mingled with those of ...
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... common rooms or in apparatus constructed for the purpose , and may be either emollient and soothing , or aromat- ic and stimulant ; in scrofulous and cutaneous diseases iodine and sulphur fumigations are frequently employed in hospitals ...
... common rooms or in apparatus constructed for the purpose , and may be either emollient and soothing , or aromat- ic and stimulant ; in scrofulous and cutaneous diseases iodine and sulphur fumigations are frequently employed in hospitals ...
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... common inhabi- tant of the banks of our streams , in the most remote districts of the mountains , as well as in the cultivated meadows around our villages . The fur is principally used by the hatters , who pay a small price for the ...
... common inhabi- tant of the banks of our streams , in the most remote districts of the mountains , as well as in the cultivated meadows around our villages . The fur is principally used by the hatters , who pay a small price for the ...
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... common , black , with the first 3 abdominal rings orange - colored . A smaller and very common species is the T. lineola ( Fabr . ) , which has a whitish line along the top of the hind body . There are many other American species ...
... common , black , with the first 3 abdominal rings orange - colored . A smaller and very common species is the T. lineola ( Fabr . ) , which has a whitish line along the top of the hind body . There are many other American species ...
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... common vegetables , chicory , clover , flax , hemp , anise seed , rape , tobacco ( which is monopolized by the government ) , hops , pears , apples , cher- ries , plums , and various other fruits , which are greatly inferior in quality ...
... common vegetables , chicory , clover , flax , hemp , anise seed , rape , tobacco ( which is monopolized by the government ) , hops , pears , apples , cher- ries , plums , and various other fruits , which are greatly inferior in quality ...
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الصفحة 241 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
الصفحة 239 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
الصفحة 68 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
الصفحة 268 - Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it...
الصفحة 174 - the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in my life.
الصفحة 245 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
الصفحة 334 - I am fond of people, and that every one feels directly — young and old. I pass without pretension through the world, and that gratifies men. I never bemoralise any one — always seek out the good that is in them, and leave what is bad to him who made mankind, and knows how to round off the angles. In this way I make myself happy and comfortable.
الصفحة 142 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
الصفحة 107 - He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.
الصفحة 90 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors,