The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 1Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... less than to the thousands of its possessors among the general public , the first edition of THE AMERICANA commended itself as a useful work of reference . In many ways , both in its emphasis and in its treatments , it was a departure ...
... less than to the thousands of its possessors among the general public , the first edition of THE AMERICANA commended itself as a useful work of reference . In many ways , both in its emphasis and in its treatments , it was a departure ...
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... less cultivated speakers it is nearly identical with ( 5 ) , even with ( 6 ) . With others , anxious to avoid the flatness and ex- aggerating in the opposite direction , it is made identical with ( 1 ) . With the majority of good ...
... less cultivated speakers it is nearly identical with ( 5 ) , even with ( 6 ) . With others , anxious to avoid the flatness and ex- aggerating in the opposite direction , it is made identical with ( 1 ) . With the majority of good ...
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... less priggish than those in ' Rollo , ' the conventional burlesques of which merely prove that the authors have not read the books , and even so are a testi- mony to their vitality . The chief of his more than 200 volumes are the ...
... less priggish than those in ' Rollo , ' the conventional burlesques of which merely prove that the authors have not read the books , and even so are a testi- mony to their vitality . The chief of his more than 200 volumes are the ...
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... less . On 25 May 1915 a treaty of peace , valid for five years , was signed at Buenos Aires by representatives of Argentina , Brazil , and Chile the first actual treaty between these separatists and therefore jealously competing nations ...
... less . On 25 May 1915 a treaty of peace , valid for five years , was signed at Buenos Aires by representatives of Argentina , Brazil , and Chile the first actual treaty between these separatists and therefore jealously competing nations ...
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... less than three years , or imprisoned , with or without hard labor , for any term not more than two years . ( 2 ) If the girl is under the age of 16 years , the offender shall be guilty of misdemeanor , and being convicted thereof shall ...
... less than three years , or imprisoned , with or without hard labor , for any term not more than two years . ( 2 ) If the girl is under the age of 16 years , the offender shall be guilty of misdemeanor , and being convicted thereof shall ...
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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.