The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 1Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... chief , a French river rising in dept . Pas - de- Calais , flowing into dept . Nord , and reaching the Strait of Dover at Gravelines ; about 50 miles long , navigable below St. Omer , and connected with Calais and Dunkirk by canals . Aa ...
... chief , a French river rising in dept . Pas - de- Calais , flowing into dept . Nord , and reaching the Strait of Dover at Gravelines ; about 50 miles long , navigable below St. Omer , and connected with Calais and Dunkirk by canals . Aa ...
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... chief city of N. Jutland ; on the south side of the Limfjord ( a sea - arm which joins the Cattegat to the North Sea ) ... Chief affluents , the Saane , Zihl , and Emme , the Reuss feeding it from the lake of Lucerne and Zuger See , the ...
... chief city of N. Jutland ; on the south side of the Limfjord ( a sea - arm which joins the Cattegat to the North Sea ) ... Chief affluents , the Saane , Zihl , and Emme , the Reuss feeding it from the lake of Lucerne and Zuger See , the ...
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... chief object of abandonment being to recover the whole value of the subject of the insurance , it is necessary only where the subject itself , or portions of it , or claims on account of it , survive the peril which caused the loss . At ...
... chief object of abandonment being to recover the whole value of the subject of the insurance , it is necessary only where the subject itself , or portions of it , or claims on account of it , survive the peril which caused the loss . At ...
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... chief princely figure of the ' Arabian Nights , ' and Bagdad the centre of all picturesque and varied enjoyment . Al - Mamun is still more honorably remembered as the patron of arts and literature . What lay under- neath this external ...
... chief princely figure of the ' Arabian Nights , ' and Bagdad the centre of all picturesque and varied enjoyment . Al - Mamun is still more honorably remembered as the patron of arts and literature . What lay under- neath this external ...
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... chief work is ' The Sun ' ( 1911 ) . ABBOT , Ezra , American Biblical scholar : b . Jackson , Me . , 28 April 1819 ; d . 21 March 1884. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy , graduated at Bowdoin 1840 , and after teaching in Maine and ...
... chief work is ' The Sun ' ( 1911 ) . ABBOT , Ezra , American Biblical scholar : b . Jackson , Me . , 28 April 1819 ; d . 21 March 1884. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy , graduated at Bowdoin 1840 , and after teaching in Maine and ...
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Stran 267 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Stran 133 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Stran 74 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier...
Stran 242 - Jesus saith, I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was I seen of them, and I found all men drunken, and none found I athirst among them, and my soul grieveth over the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart, and see not.
Stran 180 - Captive. — A balloon restrained from free flight by means of a cable attaching it to the earth.
Stran 359 - Spain, and other countries, and it is called by many various names; but its nature and properties are everywhere the same. The people of Spain, in particular, brew this liquor so well that it will keep good for a long time. So exquisite is the ingenuity of mankind in gratifying their vicious appetites that they have thus invented a method to make water itself intoxicate.
Stran 77 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime...
Stran 141 - General ia charged with the duty of recording, authenticating, and communicating to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instructions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Staff, or...
Stran 70 - An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon.
Stran 77 - Accord," says Sir Wm. Blackstone, "is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which, when performed, is a bar to all actions upon this account.