Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 7Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... tion of Hudson river with that of lake Champlain , lake Ontario , lake Erie , and Delaware river . - Champlain canal is 634 miles in length , 40 feet wide at the sur- face , 28 feet at the bottom , and 4 feet in depth . This , and the ...
... tion of Hudson river with that of lake Champlain , lake Ontario , lake Erie , and Delaware river . - Champlain canal is 634 miles in length , 40 feet wide at the sur- face , 28 feet at the bottom , and 4 feet in depth . This , and the ...
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... tion includes the summit level , where a tunnel , 4 miles 80 yards long , passing un- der a ridge of the Alleghany of 856 feet elevation , is necessary , with a deep cut of 1060 yards long at the western end , and an- other deep cut of ...
... tion includes the summit level , where a tunnel , 4 miles 80 yards long , passing un- der a ridge of the Alleghany of 856 feet elevation , is necessary , with a deep cut of 1060 yards long at the western end , and an- other deep cut of ...
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... tion ; provided this extension be com- menced within five years from May , 1828 , and finished within twenty ; the canal to be a highway for the U. States , free from toll . Virginia and North Carolina . - Appo- mattor river canals ...
... tion ; provided this extension be com- menced within five years from May , 1828 , and finished within twenty ; the canal to be a highway for the U. States , free from toll . Virginia and North Carolina . - Appo- mattor river canals ...
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... tion , and the unjust form of procedure , survived ; and , until the moment when it was abolished by Napoleon ( Dec. 4 , 1808 ) , the inquisition continued to be a powerful obstacle to the progress of the human in- tellect . The ...
... tion , and the unjust form of procedure , survived ; and , until the moment when it was abolished by Napoleon ( Dec. 4 , 1808 ) , the inquisition continued to be a powerful obstacle to the progress of the human in- tellect . The ...
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... tion of the two courts may be reversed . To absolve ab instantia means to absolve a person from an accusation , without car- rying through the process . INSTINCT ( from the Latin instinctus ) ; that impulse , produced by the peculiar ...
... tion of the two courts may be reversed . To absolve ab instantia means to absolve a person from an accusation , without car- rying through the process . INSTINCT ( from the Latin instinctus ) ; that impulse , produced by the peculiar ...
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Page 368 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 474 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
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Page 473 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Page 249 - Cadwalader, and afterwards visited Europe, to improve his professional knowledge. He obtained the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of Rheims, and, having subsequently spent some time at Leyden, concluded his medical tour by a visit to Edinburgh.
Page 353 - ... time for them to stay any longer. They immediately leave off fishing, take to their oars, and get away as fast as they can. When they have reached the usual depth of the place and find themselves out of danger, they lie upon their oars, and in a few minutes after they see this enormous monster come up to the surface of the water. He there shows himself sufficiently, though his whole body does not appear, which, in all likelihood, no human eye ever beheld, excepting the young of this species,...