The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, المجلد 8George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... light of modern science , the improved means of research , and the multi- plied observations of a host of zealous students , a large proportion of the microscopic forms are but imperfectly understood . A century's study has left the ...
... light of modern science , the improved means of research , and the multi- plied observations of a host of zealous students , a large proportion of the microscopic forms are but imperfectly understood . A century's study has left the ...
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... light of extreme brilliancy . Fungi differ from flowering plants in their chemical influence upon the air . They absorb oxygen and exhale carbonic acid , performing the same office in this respect as animals , which they most re- semble ...
... light of extreme brilliancy . Fungi differ from flowering plants in their chemical influence upon the air . They absorb oxygen and exhale carbonic acid , performing the same office in this respect as animals , which they most re- semble ...
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... light . A professor in the university at Padua argued that as there were only 7 metals , 7 days in the week , and 7 aper- tures in a man's head , so there could be but 7 planets ; and when forced to admit the visi- bility of the ...
... light . A professor in the university at Padua argued that as there were only 7 metals , 7 days in the week , and 7 aper- tures in a man's head , so there could be but 7 planets ; and when forced to admit the visi- bility of the ...
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... light yellowish brown color , with paler legs . GALL NUTS . See GALLS . GALL STONES , or BILIARY CALCULI , the concretions formed from the elements of the bile , situated most frequently in the gall blad- der , but found also in the ...
... light yellowish brown color , with paler legs . GALL NUTS . See GALLS . GALL STONES , or BILIARY CALCULI , the concretions formed from the elements of the bile , situated most frequently in the gall blad- der , but found also in the ...
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... light shell work . GANNETT , EZRA STILES , D.D. , an Amer- ican clergyman , born in Cambridge , Mass . , May 4 , 1801. He studied at Phillips academy , An- dover , entered Harvard college in 1816 , and was graduated in 1820 ; studied ...
... light shell work . GANNETT , EZRA STILES , D.D. , an Amer- ican clergyman , born in Cambridge , Mass . , May 4 , 1801. He studied at Phillips academy , An- dover , entered Harvard college in 1816 , and was graduated in 1820 ; studied ...
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الصفحة 70 - 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 237 - 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. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
الصفحة 235 - 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 58 - County as a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the State.
الصفحة 170 - 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 264 - 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 237 - 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 140 - 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 237 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
الصفحة 242 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution.