Encyclopędia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 5

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Francis Lieber
Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries

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Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 130 - Yea, is he yet so lusty ? Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will, Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then ; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.
Page 514 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Page 18 - It is called the exchequer saccharium, from the checked cloth, resembling a chess board, which covers the table there, and on which, when certain of the king's accounts are made up, the sums are marked and scored with counters. It consists of two divisions ; the receipt...
Page 56 - ... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot and horseback, and many other strange images, in their natural colours and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along the surface of the sea during the whole of the short period of time while the above-mentioned causes remain.
Page 610 - ... yet, if his property be at all diffused, he has probably a right to vote at more places than one, and therefore has many representatives. This is the spirit of our constitution: not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect...
Page 334 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Page 154 - Rep.), which defines what is wreck of the sea, and that " flotsam is when a ship is sunk, or otherwise perished, and the goods float on the sea ; jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea and afterwards, notwithstanding, the ship perish : lagan...
Page 16 - Dundee, and Perth presented him with their freedom, and the university of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinity. In London, lord North, then prime minister, held frequent conferences with him, respecting the dissensions between the colonies and the mother country.
Page 480 - It is surrounded •with good walls, flanked with fortifications, and covered by two forts, erected on the mountain. Besides these, it has five fortified buildings. The streets are narrow and winding ; the houses tolerably good. It has a seminary of education on a large scale. The cathedral is rich. It was taken by the French in 1809.

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