The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 16Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919 |
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... period as naval assistant to the Controller of the Navy , he commanded the cruiser Drake and in 1905 became director of naval ordnance . For about 15 years he had served in high commands afloat and alternately in administrative posts ...
... period as naval assistant to the Controller of the Navy , he commanded the cruiser Drake and in 1905 became director of naval ordnance . For about 15 years he had served in high commands afloat and alternately in administrative posts ...
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... period , i and v to different authors at the end of this period and iii to a poet living in the 3d cen- tury . Reuss justly observed that the profound impression these lamentations make on the reader is due to the nature of the subject ...
... period , i and v to different authors at the end of this period and iii to a poet living in the 3d cen- tury . Reuss justly observed that the profound impression these lamentations make on the reader is due to the nature of the subject ...
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... period of Italian letters . So far as the Jerusalem Delivered ' is a regular epic , it is dead . It lives only as a fantastic romance that gave free play to Tasso's supreme genius in the moods associated with the elegy and the idyll ...
... period of Italian letters . So far as the Jerusalem Delivered ' is a regular epic , it is dead . It lives only as a fantastic romance that gave free play to Tasso's supreme genius in the moods associated with the elegy and the idyll ...
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... periods in a Jesuit's life , by ex- press injunction , it concerns itself with cate- chizing the ignorant and ... period in order to scrutinize the state of the soul and to take means to amend one's life , or to strive for higher ...
... periods in a Jesuit's life , by ex- press injunction , it concerns itself with cate- chizing the ignorant and ... period in order to scrutinize the state of the soul and to take means to amend one's life , or to strive for higher ...
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... period we know only the striking story , necessarily autobiographic in origin , in which he depicts the struggles which he underwent as due to Satan's influence . Temptations thus forced in upon him to selfish use of his power , to ...
... period we know only the striking story , necessarily autobiographic in origin , in which he depicts the struggles which he underwent as due to Satan's influence . Temptations thus forced in upon him to selfish use of his power , to ...
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Stran 176 - Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it...
Stran 104 - His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Stran 182 - Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles."* To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit.
Stran 117 - The psychiatrists stepped in at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th, centuries.
Stran 232 - The judges are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and former Lord Chancellors.
Stran 372 - ... was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Stran 302 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Stran 374 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Stran 189 - ... joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession.
Stran 189 - Any seven or more persons, or, where the company to be formed will be a private company, any two or more persons, associated for any lawful purpose may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Act in respect of registration, form an incorporated company, with or without limited liability.