The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 13Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1911 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... AMERICAN MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE EDWIN RINES ASSISTED BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND OF THE MOST EMINENT SCHOLARS AND AUTHORITIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE Issued under the Editorial Supervision of The Scientific American IN TWENTY VOLUMES ...
... AMERICAN MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE EDWIN RINES ASSISTED BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND OF THE MOST EMINENT SCHOLARS AND AUTHORITIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE Issued under the Editorial Supervision of The Scientific American IN TWENTY VOLUMES ...
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... American naval engineer : b . New York city 10 Jan. 1841. He was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic In- stitute ; entered the navy as assistant engineer in 1861 ; served through the War ; and in 1879 accompanied the De Long expedition ...
... American naval engineer : b . New York city 10 Jan. 1841. He was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic In- stitute ; entered the navy as assistant engineer in 1861 ; served through the War ; and in 1879 accompanied the De Long expedition ...
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... American Naturalist . ' He has made extensive investiga- tions and studies in anthropology in America , discovering several new extinct species , and has written : Lenape Stone ( 1885 ) ; ' Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the ...
... American Naturalist . ' He has made extensive investiga- tions and studies in anthropology in America , discovering several new extinct species , and has written : Lenape Stone ( 1885 ) ; ' Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the ...
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... American Methodism ' ; ' Sanctification ' ( 1901 ) ; ' Miracles ) ( 1902 ) . Merrill , William Emery , American mili- tary engineer : b . Fort Howard , Wis . , 11 Oct. 1837 ; d . near Edgefield , Ill . , 14 Dec. 1891. He was graduated ...
... American Methodism ' ; ' Sanctification ' ( 1901 ) ; ' Miracles ) ( 1902 ) . Merrill , William Emery , American mili- tary engineer : b . Fort Howard , Wis . , 11 Oct. 1837 ; d . near Edgefield , Ill . , 14 Dec. 1891. He was graduated ...
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... American lawyer : 5. Pittsfield , Mass . , 5 Aug. 1853. He was grad- uated from Harvard in 1814 and was for some years lecturer in the law school of Boston University . Beside editing several legal works he is the author of ...
... American lawyer : 5. Pittsfield , Mass . , 5 Aug. 1853. He was grad- uated from Harvard in 1814 and was for some years lecturer in the law school of Boston University . Beside editing several legal works he is the author of ...
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Page 6 - Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be condemned.
Page 9 - ... be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the united states...
Page 2 - Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 10 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 11 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Page 10 - If, therefore, we speak of the Mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future : and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the Mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox, that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 1 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference.