Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the Best Authorities, and Systematically Arranged for Use in Home and School, Volume 1

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Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar
D. Appleton, 1910
 

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Page 108 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
Page 178 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.
Page 23 - He was a prominent member of the committee of five appointed June n, to prepare a declaration of independence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, but on Adams devolved the task of battling it through Congress in a three days debate.
Page 153 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Page 5 - FRGS Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. FRS Fellow of the Royal Society. FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. FRSL Fellow of the Royal Society, London; also Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. FSA Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Page 5 - GCB . . Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCIE . . Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire GCMG . . Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St.
Page 111 - APPEAL, in law, the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior court or judge, when a person thinks himself aggrieved by the sentence of the inferior judge.
Page 382 - The lower or common analysis (qv) contains the rides necessary to calculate, quantities of any definite magnitude whatever. But quantities are sometimes considered as varying in magnitude, or as having arrived at a given state of magnitude by successive variations. This gives rise to the higher analysis, which is of the greatest use in the physico-mathematical sciences.
Page 340 - He left .£8000 to be paid to the author of the best treatise on 'The Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
Page 437 - This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there...

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