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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... writer of tragedy , who is com- pared , by his countrymen , even to Eschy- lus , born at Dijon , Feb. 15 , 1674 , early manifested talent at the school of the Jesu- its in his native town , but , at the same time , a boisterous and ...
... writer of tragedy , who is com- pared , by his countrymen , even to Eschy- lus , born at Dijon , Feb. 15 , 1674 , early manifested talent at the school of the Jesu- its in his native town , but , at the same time , a boisterous and ...
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... writer observed that mi — the Low German for me , and pretty nearly resembling the French moi - was used by all parties to express the first person sin- gular . The infinitive was also used in- stead of the finite modes , expressing ...
... writer observed that mi — the Low German for me , and pretty nearly resembling the French moi - was used by all parties to express the first person sin- gular . The infinitive was also used in- stead of the finite modes , expressing ...
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... writer has collected , in a high- ly judicious manner , a great number of statements respecting crimes , prisons , houses of correction , common schools , & c . , both in Europe and America , in his Vorlesungen über Gefängniss - Kunde ...
... writer has collected , in a high- ly judicious manner , a great number of statements respecting crimes , prisons , houses of correction , common schools , & c . , both in Europe and America , in his Vorlesungen über Gefängniss - Kunde ...
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... writers , whether a person in extreme want of food is excu- sable for stealing to satisfy his hunger . Whatever may be the doctrine of foreign jurists , or the opinion of publicists , it is certain that no such excuse is now admit- ted ...
... writers , whether a person in extreme want of food is excu- sable for stealing to satisfy his hunger . Whatever may be the doctrine of foreign jurists , or the opinion of publicists , it is certain that no such excuse is now admit- ted ...
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... writer who mentions it in connexion with bap- tism , is Tertullian , who wrote after the middle of the 2d century . This writer says ( De Cov . Mil . c . 2 ) , that " at every setting out , or entry upon business , when- ever we come in ...
... writer who mentions it in connexion with bap- tism , is Tertullian , who wrote after the middle of the 2d century . This writer says ( De Cov . Mil . c . 2 ) , that " at every setting out , or entry upon business , when- ever we come in ...
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