Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... church had obtained . The grandees of the kingdom , the secular public ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatini ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the ...
... church had obtained . The grandees of the kingdom , the secular public ministers and officers of the court ( called viri illus- tres officii palatini ) , who formed a kind of nobility , and as the constitutional coun- sellors of the ...
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... churches a uniform mode of worship , long survived the downfall of the kingdom . This off cium Gothicum , as it was termed , which contained many rites and forms that had been used in the Spanish church from the earliest period of ...
... churches a uniform mode of worship , long survived the downfall of the kingdom . This off cium Gothicum , as it was termed , which contained many rites and forms that had been used in the Spanish church from the earliest period of ...
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... Church , cap- ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ... churches , convents and hospitals is not less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far ...
... Church , cap- ital of a delegation , formerly capital of the Patrimonio ; thirty - four miles north- west of Rome ... churches , convents and hospitals is not less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far ...
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... church of the Apostles in Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livy calls them the eternal enemies of ...
... church of the Apostles in Rome . VOLSCI ; an Ausonian tribe , which re- sided , before the foundation of Rome , in the ancient Latium ( now Campagna di Roma ) . They had a republican government . Livy calls them the eternal enemies of ...
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... church with such vehemence , in his kinds , so that he withdrew , with madame Lettres philosophiques , that the parliament du Chatelet , to the court of king Stanis- of Paris condemned the book to be burnt ; laus , at Luneville . During ...
... church with such vehemence , in his kinds , so that he withdrew , with madame Lettres philosophiques , that the parliament du Chatelet , to the court of king Stanis- of Paris condemned the book to be burnt ; laus , at Luneville . During ...
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Página 147 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Página 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 147 - While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Página 441 - So the soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the crosses, and crosses
Página 80 - No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright, and his means always pure. He exhibits the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown, and whose professions to foreign governments and to his own countrymen were always sincere. In him was fully exemplified the real distinction which forever exists between wisdom and cunning, and the importance as well as truth of the maxim that
Página 66 - ... impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Página 147 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 477 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Página 174 - A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREVAILING RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS of PROFESSED CHRISTIANS, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity.
Página 74 - resolved that the thanks of Congress in their own name, and in the name of the Thirteen United Colonies whom they represent, be presented to his Excellency General Washington, and the officers and soldiers under his command, for their wise and spirited conduct in the siege and acquisition of Boston...