Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors, Volume 14American Book Exchange, 1881 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... lived at Albany . He wrote many poems of considerable merit , some of which have been translated into the German . Among his writings were : The Burning of Schenectady , and other Poems ( 1842 ) , and Frontenac , a Tale of the Iroquois ...
... lived at Albany . He wrote many poems of considerable merit , some of which have been translated into the German . Among his writings were : The Burning of Schenectady , and other Poems ( 1842 ) , and Frontenac , a Tale of the Iroquois ...
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... lived , or who he was , or whether he was even called Suidas , no one can say , but it is customary to place him about the 10th or 11th century . The Lexicon bears unmistakable evidence of having gone through many hands ; and though we ...
... lived , or who he was , or whether he was even called Suidas , no one can say , but it is customary to place him about the 10th or 11th century . The Lexicon bears unmistakable evidence of having gone through many hands ; and though we ...
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... lived quietly , taking no part in public affairs ; but in 93 B.C. he stood for the pretorship , and won it by a liberal distribution of money among the peo- ple . Next year , he was sent to Cilicia as propretor , to replace Ariobarzanes ...
... lived quietly , taking no part in public affairs ; but in 93 B.C. he stood for the pretorship , and won it by a liberal distribution of money among the peo- ple . Next year , he was sent to Cilicia as propretor , to replace Ariobarzanes ...
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... lived to be married , whose supposed uterine life was not more than 168 days . ( 2 ) In the Aukland family , the hon- orable William Frederick Elliot , who was born 173 days after the birth of a sister ( who lived 60 years ) , survived ...
... lived to be married , whose supposed uterine life was not more than 168 days . ( 2 ) In the Aukland family , the hon- orable William Frederick Elliot , who was born 173 days after the birth of a sister ( who lived 60 years ) , survived ...
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... lived half a century later , first tied an artery which had become aneurismal in consequence of being wounded in venesection . Galen , who practiced in Rome in the latter part of the 2d c . , mainly obtained his great reputation by his ...
... lived half a century later , first tied an artery which had become aneurismal in consequence of being wounded in venesection . Galen , who practiced in Rome in the latter part of the 2d c . , mainly obtained his great reputation by his ...
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Page 247 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 42 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 445 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 287 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 96 - That no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London, or by the Dean of St. Paul's, for the time being, calling to him or them four Doctors of Physic, and for Surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Page 276 - ... every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's
Page 237 - not carrying any money to or fro ; neither begging, borrowing, or asking meat, drink, or lodging.
Page 444 - It happened that, on a public day, a celebrated Beauty of those times was in the Cross Bath, and one of the crowd of her admirers took a glass of the water in which the fair one stood, and drank her health to the company. There was in the place a gay fellow half fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast. He was opposed in his resolution ; yet this whim gave foundation to the present honour which is done to the lady we mention in our liquors...
Page 83 - Our northern natures can hardly comprehend how the sun, and the moon, and the stars were imaged in the heart of a Peruvian, and dwelt there ; how the changes in these luminaries were combined with all his feelings and his fortunes ; how the dawn was hope to him ; how the fierce mid-day brightness was power to him ; how the declining sun was death to him ; and how the new morning was a resurrection to him : nay, more, how the sun, and the moon, and the stars were his personal friends, as well as his...
Page 153 - The skin presents an eruption of spots, which are usually somewhat coppery, but sometimes of a rose-red tint ; while on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands...