The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 11Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919 |
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... Receiving orders from General Houston to blow up the fort at Goliad and retire to Victoria he was attacked on the banks ... received a lieutenant's commission from the British commander at Wilmington . At one time he surprised a court in ...
... Receiving orders from General Houston to blow up the fort at Goliad and retire to Victoria he was attacked on the banks ... received a lieutenant's commission from the British commander at Wilmington . At one time he surprised a court in ...
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... received his education at the military school of Modena and , becoming implicated in the Menotti insurrection , he was condemned to death and hanged in effigy in 1831. He escaped to France and there joined a corps of engineers . With ...
... received his education at the military school of Modena and , becoming implicated in the Menotti insurrection , he was condemned to death and hanged in effigy in 1831. He escaped to France and there joined a corps of engineers . With ...
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... received and granted a pension . He lived quietly at court and died at Damascus . His works were long neglected , perhaps because Avicenna was more the fash- ion . In 1484 , at Venice appeared his compen- dium of the Rhetoric of ...
... received and granted a pension . He lived quietly at court and died at Damascus . His works were long neglected , perhaps because Avicenna was more the fash- ion . In 1484 , at Venice appeared his compen- dium of the Rhetoric of ...
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... received from government pension of $ 1,500 per annum in recognition of his eminent service to science . From 1829 to 1842 he was chemical lecturer at the Royal Acad- emy . He was a knight of several of the European orders , and a ...
... received from government pension of $ 1,500 per annum in recognition of his eminent service to science . From 1829 to 1842 he was chemical lecturer at the Royal Acad- emy . He was a knight of several of the European orders , and a ...
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... receiving annually a total of $ 447,000 in wages . The capital invested aggregated $ 2,970,000 , and the year's output was ... received his education at the Ecole Polytechnique and at Laval University , Quebec . He joined the Canadian ...
... receiving annually a total of $ 447,000 in wages . The capital invested aggregated $ 2,970,000 , and the year's output was ... received his education at the Ecole Polytechnique and at Laval University , Quebec . He joined the Canadian ...
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Stran 346 - Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis and was appointed its medical director.
Stran 304 - If it be discovered, and fairly proved, that a flag of truce has been abused for surreptitiously obtaining military knowledge, the bearer of the flag thus abusing his sacred character is deemed a spy.
Stran 74 - Lambeth conference, he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the university of Cambridge, England.
Stran 295 - He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar. In 1832, however, he emigrated to Canada, and settled in the township of Oro in Upper Canada.
Stran 84 - Rico is a party in the circuit court of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States are being most efficiently prepared and argued by Mai.
Stran 85 - Commission, on the charges set forth in this complaint, at which time and place you will have the right under said Act to appear and show cause why an order should not be entered requiring you to cease and desist from the violations of law charged In this complaint.
Stran 79 - To acquire and dispose of — (a) Such property, real or personal, as may be necessary or convenient for the transaction of its business, which, however, may be in part leased to others for revenue purposes.
Stran 175 - The Pilot' ; 'Lionel Lincoln' ; 'The Last of the Mohicans'; 'The Bravo'; 'The Prairie' ; and 'The Red Rover' ; and for 30 years, until his death 14 Sept. 1851, Cooper was the pre-eminent American novelist who was equally expert in chronicling the life of the Indians and in writing the narratives of perilous adventures by sea. During this period the American novel and the American novelist proved that their position was secure. John Pendleton Kennedy, with his 'Swallow Barn' ; 'Rob of the Bowl' ;...
Stran 303 - This flag for the future is meant to stand for the just use of undisputed national power. No nation is ever going to doubt our power to assert its rights; and we should lay it to heart that no nation shall ever henceforth doubt our purpose to put it to the highest uses to which a great emblem of justice and government can be put. It is henceforth to stand for self-possession, for dignity, for the assertion of the right of one nation to serve the other nations of the world...