The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 16Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919 |
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... called for a general con- gress of the colonies and asked the freeholders of Virginia for a convention to consider the state of the colony . To this convention Jeffer- son was returned by the people of Albemarle . The convention of 1774 ...
... called for a general con- gress of the colonies and asked the freeholders of Virginia for a convention to consider the state of the colony . To this convention Jeffer- son was returned by the people of Albemarle . The convention of 1774 ...
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... called to become Vice - President in 1797 , a position which he held till 1801. During these four years he bitterly opposed the so - called monarchical tendencies of the Federal party as seen in the Alien and Sedition Acts ( q.v. ) ...
... called to become Vice - President in 1797 , a position which he held till 1801. During these four years he bitterly opposed the so - called monarchical tendencies of the Federal party as seen in the Alien and Sedition Acts ( q.v. ) ...
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... called pectose ; as the fruit ripens , this substance is transformed into pectin , the change being brought about chiefly by the influence of a peculiar ferment called pectase , which is con- tained in the fruits . As pectin is soluble ...
... called pectose ; as the fruit ripens , this substance is transformed into pectin , the change being brought about chiefly by the influence of a peculiar ferment called pectase , which is con- tained in the fruits . As pectin is soluble ...
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... called the Throne of Solomon , and the fortress of Antonia . Of the Christian monuments , the most noteworthy is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , in the Christian quar- ter , originally built by Constantine the Great over the ...
... called the Throne of Solomon , and the fortress of Antonia . Of the Christian monuments , the most noteworthy is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , in the Christian quar- ter , originally built by Constantine the Great over the ...
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... called a " Jesse window " is a stained glass church win- dow in which Jesse is depicted as the root of a tree which ... called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1847 , was called within the bar and became a bencher in 1865 , and in 1868 he ...
... called a " Jesse window " is a stained glass church win- dow in which Jesse is depicted as the root of a tree which ... called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1847 , was called within the bar and became a bencher in 1865 , and in 1868 he ...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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.
Stran 184 - The test of merit in my profession, with the people, is success. It is a hard rule, but I think it right.