Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... hand over it , for the preservation or restoration of the natural temperature . The Poles never wear any thing round the neck , notwithstanding the severity of their winters . The same custom prevails among the Orientals , by whom a ...
... hand over it , for the preservation or restoration of the natural temperature . The Poles never wear any thing round the neck , notwithstanding the severity of their winters . The same custom prevails among the Orientals , by whom a ...
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... hands , by sale or otherwise , to be used by others ; and others , again , having no confidence in the markets , and ... hand , and whose possessions are estimated in money , is considered to be growing poorer and poorer every day . But ...
... hands , by sale or otherwise , to be used by others ; and others , again , having no confidence in the markets , and ... hand , and whose possessions are estimated in money , is considered to be growing poorer and poorer every day . But ...
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... hand , the crimes against property amount only to 2379. From these data , we may conclude that the greater proportion of offences amongst an ignorant people are those which proceed from the licentious and revengeful passions , unsubdued ...
... hand , the crimes against property amount only to 2379. From these data , we may conclude that the greater proportion of offences amongst an ignorant people are those which proceed from the licentious and revengeful passions , unsubdued ...
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... hand , that the sentiments of men , and their moral reformation , cannot be the direct object of legislation , from the very circumstance , that this effect is not of a kind to be ascertained ; but to produce an outward habit ( for ...
... hand , that the sentiments of men , and their moral reformation , cannot be the direct object of legislation , from the very circumstance , that this effect is not of a kind to be ascertained ; but to produce an outward habit ( for ...
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... hand , it is found by experience , that the punishment of death is not sufficient to deter men from the commission of offences to which they are strongly tempted by their passions or their wants . The tendency of modern legis- lation ...
... hand , it is found by experience , that the punishment of death is not sufficient to deter men from the commission of offences to which they are strongly tempted by their passions or their wants . The tendency of modern legis- lation ...
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