The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 19Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919 |
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... March 1918. He was graduated at Harvard in 1879 , and engaged in business as merchant and trustee in 1879-99 . He was a di- rector of various trust companies , banks , manu- facturing companies , and public utilities con- cerns , and ...
... March 1918. He was graduated at Harvard in 1879 , and engaged in business as merchant and trustee in 1879-99 . He was a di- rector of various trust companies , banks , manu- facturing companies , and public utilities con- cerns , and ...
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... March 1746 ; d . Madagascar , 16 Nov. 1802. His father , a rich farmer , took him into partnership , but the death of his wife soon after their marriage drove him to the study of botany and to travel . He traveled through France and ...
... March 1746 ; d . Madagascar , 16 Nov. 1802. His father , a rich farmer , took him into partnership , but the death of his wife soon after their marriage drove him to the study of botany and to travel . He traveled through France and ...
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... March 1884. He was educated at Avignon ; studied law in Aix ; went to Paris in 1822 after winning a prize from the Academy of Inscriptions by his essay on French institutions , government and legislation in the time of Saint Louis ...
... March 1884. He was educated at Avignon ; studied law in Aix ; went to Paris in 1822 after winning a prize from the Academy of Inscriptions by his essay on French institutions , government and legislation in the time of Saint Louis ...
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... March 1885 ; first appeared in America at the Museum , Chicago , 6 July 1885. The plot is simple burlesque without the infusion of any Eastern imagery . The Mikado , a highly moral ruler , has issued an edict condemning to death every ...
... March 1885 ; first appeared in America at the Museum , Chicago , 6 July 1885. The plot is simple burlesque without the infusion of any Eastern imagery . The Mikado , a highly moral ruler , has issued an edict condemning to death every ...
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... march over a distance of more than 160 miles , he captured Chief Joseph and his tribe of Nez Perces after a hard - fought battle of four days in northern Montana ; in 1878 he intercepted and captured Elk Horn and his band on the edge of ...
... march over a distance of more than 160 miles , he captured Chief Joseph and his tribe of Nez Perces after a hard - fought battle of four days in northern Montana ; in 1878 he intercepted and captured Elk Horn and his band on the edge of ...
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Stran 186 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Stran 112 - 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.
Stran 111 - 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.
Stran 375 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Stran 376 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Stran 374 - 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.
Stran 217 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Stran 302 - GOD ; and he is mighty and wise. His is the kingdom of heaven and earth; he giveth life, and he putteth to death ; and he is almighty. He is the first, and the last; the manifest, and the hidden : and lie knoweth all things.
Stran 137 - Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Stran 112 - 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.