The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 9Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... relations between England , Portugal , and Spain ; and in January , 1666 , he travelled to Lisbon in the endeavor to bring about a peace between the last - mentioned powers . But he had scarcely returned to Madrid when he was somewhat ...
... relations between England , Portugal , and Spain ; and in January , 1666 , he travelled to Lisbon in the endeavor to bring about a peace between the last - mentioned powers . But he had scarcely returned to Madrid when he was somewhat ...
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... relation between magnetism and light the subject of his very last experimental work . He endeavored , but in vain , to detect ... relations to each other . This fact will most likely prove exceedingly fertile , and of great value in the ...
... relation between magnetism and light the subject of his very last experimental work . He endeavored , but in vain , to detect ... relations to each other . This fact will most likely prove exceedingly fertile , and of great value in the ...
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... relation to the same cause in England ; and perhaps both by his writings and by his former relations with Napoleon he had no small share , though an indirect and posthumous one , in bring- ing about the commercial treaty which through ...
... relation to the same cause in England ; and perhaps both by his writings and by his former relations with Napoleon he had no small share , though an indirect and posthumous one , in bring- ing about the commercial treaty which through ...
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... relations had considerable influence on her future career . Through her he was shortly afterwards in- troduced into the literary society of Auteuil . Neither in the literary history of his time nor in that particular circle can Fauriel ...
... relations had considerable influence on her future career . Through her he was shortly afterwards in- troduced into the literary society of Auteuil . Neither in the literary history of his time nor in that particular circle can Fauriel ...
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... relations , with the chancellor as first minister of the empire , and has power , with consent of the Bundes- rath , to declare war in name of the empire . The United States of America more nearly resembles the Swiss confederacy ...
... relations , with the chancellor as first minister of the empire , and has power , with consent of the Bundes- rath , to declare war in name of the empire . The United States of America more nearly resembles the Swiss confederacy ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...