Encyclopædia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... origin , as many believe . Prisoners of war were also branded , as the slave - traders now brand the negroes with the marks of their several owners . ( See Slavery . ) Recruits also were burned in the hand , generally with the name of ...
... origin , as many believe . Prisoners of war were also branded , as the slave - traders now brand the negroes with the marks of their several owners . ( See Slavery . ) Recruits also were burned in the hand , generally with the name of ...
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... Origin and Nature of Protestantism . Having distinguished himself by the prominent part which he took previous to the revolution , against the establishment of the Romish church in England , he was elevated to the see of Worcester by ...
... Origin and Nature of Protestantism . Having distinguished himself by the prominent part which he took previous to the revolution , against the establishment of the Romish church in England , he was elevated to the see of Worcester by ...
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... origin of the Sufis , whose idea of a mystical union of man with God ( which , however , is not found- ed in the doctrines of Mohammedanism , but , according to Langlès , Reiske , Ham- mer , and Malcolm , is of Indian origin ) gave rise ...
... origin of the Sufis , whose idea of a mystical union of man with God ( which , however , is not found- ed in the doctrines of Mohammedanism , but , according to Langlès , Reiske , Ham- mer , and Malcolm , is of Indian origin ) gave rise ...
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... origin from Arnaout and Grecian shepherds , who , in the seventeenth cen- tury , settled in the Cassiopeian mountains , Occupying a wild valley , enclosed on three sides by almost inaccessible moun- tains , and accessible on the fourth ...
... origin from Arnaout and Grecian shepherds , who , in the seventeenth cen- tury , settled in the Cassiopeian mountains , Occupying a wild valley , enclosed on three sides by almost inaccessible moun- tains , and accessible on the fourth ...
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... Origin of Modern Surgery ( fifth edition , Paris ) , are much celebrated . SURINAM ; a territory and colony of South America , in Guiana , belonging to the Netherlands , lying west of French Gui- ana and east of English Guiana ; ed ...
... Origin of Modern Surgery ( fifth edition , Paris ) , are much celebrated . SURINAM ; a territory and colony of South America , in Guiana , belonging to the Netherlands , lying west of French Gui- ana and east of English Guiana ; ed ...
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Page 64 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 496 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 64 - I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 22 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 24 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Page 71 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.
Page 194 - ... was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female', the lord was entitled to the wardship of the heir, and was called the guardian in chivalry. This wardship consisted in having...
Page 421 - Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 344 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
Page 344 - THERE is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness ; the Maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.