The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Band 6Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1898 |
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... success of the whale - fisheries has also fluctuated so much as to prevent modern capitalists from embarking very largely in the trade . The only novelties that distinguish the whale - fishery of the present day are the introduction of ...
... success of the whale - fisheries has also fluctuated so much as to prevent modern capitalists from embarking very largely in the trade . The only novelties that distinguish the whale - fishery of the present day are the introduction of ...
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... success , are known as Schenk's and Watt's . By the first of these , the flax is placed in vats , in which it is kept down by means of strong frame - work . Water is allowed to pass into the vats , to become absorbed by the flax ; steam ...
... success , are known as Schenk's and Watt's . By the first of these , the flax is placed in vats , in which it is kept down by means of strong frame - work . Water is allowed to pass into the vats , to become absorbed by the flax ; steam ...
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... success , till a brother pastor at Elberfeldt took him home to dinner and told him that the three requisites for his ... successful that he became the most accomplished beggar known in Germany . England , America , and many distant ...
... success , till a brother pastor at Elberfeldt took him home to dinner and told him that the three requisites for his ... successful that he became the most accomplished beggar known in Germany . England , America , and many distant ...
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... success of the attempt , and perhaps the gradual receding of its waters may be reckoned among the reasons of the gradual diminution of the number of the floating gardens , which have almost ceased to be reckoned among the wonders of the ...
... success of the attempt , and perhaps the gradual receding of its waters may be reckoned among the reasons of the gradual diminution of the number of the floating gardens , which have almost ceased to be reckoned among the wonders of the ...
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... success , he lingered in the neigh- borhood of the Tweed until his army had become reduced by desertion to about 30,000 men . On the 6th Sept. , James took up his position on Flodden hill , the last and lowest eminence of the Cheviots ...
... success , he lingered in the neigh- borhood of the Tweed until his army had become reduced by desertion to about 30,000 men . On the 6th Sept. , James took up his position on Flodden hill , the last and lowest eminence of the Cheviots ...
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Seite 134 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Seite 124 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent...
Seite 51 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 294 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Seite 10 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Seite 124 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate on, and affect other matter without mutual contact...
Seite 144 - Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home; being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one Mr.
Seite 263 - Department, to continue during the present war of rebellion, and for one year thereafter, a bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, to which shall be committed, as hereinafter provided, the supervision and management of all abandoned lands, and the control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from rebel States, or from any district of country within the territory embraced in the operations of the army...
Seite 294 - Joel ; and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams ; and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
Seite 363 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war jit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains...