The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 1Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... practically obeyed in Africa outside Egypt ; the most famous dynasty of Saracen sovereigns . They took their name from Abbas ( q.v. ) , the uncle of Mohammed . This descent had given_the_family great influence by a century after the ...
... practically obeyed in Africa outside Egypt ; the most famous dynasty of Saracen sovereigns . They took their name from Abbas ( q.v. ) , the uncle of Mohammed . This descent had given_the_family great influence by a century after the ...
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... practically inopera- tive , and rather sharpened the edge of their ill- treatment of the Christians ; and repeated con- spiracies were formed against his life , whose members however the kindly Sultan would not put to death . His right ...
... practically inopera- tive , and rather sharpened the edge of their ill- treatment of the Christians ; and repeated con- spiracies were formed against his life , whose members however the kindly Sultan would not put to death . His right ...
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... practically abrogated the treaty of seven years before , but left Italy in possession of a strip along the Red Sea coast from the French colony of Obok on the south to Ras Kasar on the north , known officially as Eritrea ( Erythræa ) ...
... practically abrogated the treaty of seven years before , but left Italy in possession of a strip along the Red Sea coast from the French colony of Obok on the south to Ras Kasar on the north , known officially as Eritrea ( Erythræa ) ...
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... practically con- ditionless and pays indemnity for life , in case of total or partial permanent disability , thereby affording to the unfortunate an annuity that may be his only source of income . Partners in business and officers in ...
... practically con- ditionless and pays indemnity for life , in case of total or partial permanent disability , thereby affording to the unfortunate an annuity that may be his only source of income . Partners in business and officers in ...
Stran 72
... practically ineffectual . In 1911 Wis- consin created an agency for administrative legislation as to details in safety provisions , resembling the systems in many foreign countries . The law requires the employer to take every ...
... practically ineffectual . In 1911 Wis- consin created an agency for administrative legislation as to details in safety provisions , resembling the systems in many foreign countries . The law requires the employer to take every ...
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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.