The New International Encyclopaedia, 19 tomasDaniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... born in Edin- burgh , and was brought up as a Presbyterian . During his studies at the University of Glas- gow , to which he went in 1827 , he determined to enter the ministry of the Church of England , and went up to Balliol College ...
... born in Edin- burgh , and was brought up as a Presbyterian . During his studies at the University of Glas- gow , to which he went in 1827 , he determined to enter the ministry of the Church of England , and went up to Balliol College ...
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... born in Paris . He was educated by his father's employer , the Marquis de Bercy . He early imbibed the spirit of the Revolution , was attached to the Moniteur , and started a journal , L'Ami des Citoyens , in imitation of Marat's Ami du ...
... born in Paris . He was educated by his father's employer , the Marquis de Bercy . He early imbibed the spirit of the Revolution , was attached to the Moniteur , and started a journal , L'Ami des Citoyens , in imitation of Marat's Ami du ...
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... born in Dublin . During the American Revolution he took an active part in the effort to prevent the use of English goods in Ireland ; was an enthusiast in the ' volunteer movement ; ' on May 27 , 1782 , commanded the corps of artillery ...
... born in Dublin . During the American Revolution he took an active part in the effort to prevent the use of English goods in Ireland ; was an enthusiast in the ' volunteer movement ; ' on May 27 , 1782 , commanded the corps of artillery ...
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... born at Pittsburg , Pa . , the son of a bishop of the African Methodist Church , and studied in the Pennsyl- vania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins . Later he went to Paris , where he re- mained , feeling there to a less degree ...
... born at Pittsburg , Pa . , the son of a bishop of the African Methodist Church , and studied in the Pennsyl- vania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins . Later he went to Paris , where he re- mained , feeling there to a less degree ...
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... born at Darm- stadt . He entered a Bavarian regiment of artil- lery in 1833 , was transferred to the general staff in 1840 , and , becoming aide - de - camp to Crown- prince Maximilian in 1840 , was soon afterwards promoted to the rank ...
... born at Darm- stadt . He entered a Bavarian regiment of artil- lery in 1833 , was transferred to the general staff in 1840 , and , becoming aide - de - camp to Crown- prince Maximilian in 1840 , was soon afterwards promoted to the rank ...
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318 psl. - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
178 psl. - There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital - a mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist of Vanity Fair admired in high places?
205 psl. - The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations.
332 psl. - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
394 psl. - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
191 psl. - Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be.
318 psl. - It happened that, on a public day, a celebrated beauty of those times was in the cross bath, and one of the crowd of her admirers took a glass of the water in which the fair one stood, and drank her health to the company. There was in the place a gay fellow half fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast. He was opposed in his resolution; yet this whim gave foundation to the present honour which is done to the lady we mention in our liquors,...
395 psl. - The classic definition of a trade union is that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1894. They defined a trade union as "a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment".
313 psl. - Where real estate is vested in any person without a right in any other person to take by survivorship it shall, on his death, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition, devolve to and become vested in his personal representatives or representative from time to time as if it were a chattel real vesting in them or him.
123 psl. - TEN'DON is the term employed in Anatomy to designate the white fibrous tissue reaching from the end of a muscle to bone or some other structure which is to serve as a fixed attachment for it, or which it is intended to move. In accordance with their form, tendons have been divided into the three following varieties: (1) Funicular, or rope-like, as the long tendon of the biceps muscle of the arm ; (2...