Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia. A Library of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers; and Giving American Statistics of Population Down to the Census of 1880
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... Spicelegium " ( Boun , 1854 ) , " De Titulo Metrico Lambac sensi " ( 1855 ) , " De ... Wolf's " Literary Analecta " " Geschichte der Iouisch . Phil . " ( History ... 17 vols . Berl . 1822-1854 . - The work is divided into 4 parts , 1 ...
Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia. A Library of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers; and Giving American Statistics of Population Down to the Census of 1880
... Statistics of P. 31 Silk Silurian SILL , the horizontal wood or stone base along the bottom of a window or door ... LLOTH , a town and watering - place of England , of quite recent origin , in the county of Cumberland , at the terminus of ...
Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia. A Library of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers; and Giving American Statistics of Population Down to the Census of 1880
... Spicelegium " ( Boun , 1854 ) , " De Titulo Metrico Lambac sensi " ( 1855 ) , " De ... Wolf's " Literary Analecta " " Geschichte der Iouisch . Phil . " ( History ... 17 vols . Berl . 1822-1854 . - The work is divided into 4 parts , 1 ...
Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia. A Library of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers; and Giving American Statistics of Population Down to the Census of 1880
... skins of sheep , such as the thin portion which covers the ... steam - pipes . When this process of digestion has been suffi- ciently carried on , the pieces of skin ... make any others ; they run their plates out very thin , which gives them ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: Being a Reprint Entire of the Last (1879) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia; A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. With Very Large Additions Upon Topics of Special Interest to American Readers
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA, And ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: On an ENTIRE NEW and IMPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Improvements and Latest Discoveries on the Various Subjects. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory Anc Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; ALSO THE WHOLE CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. WHEREIN ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES ARE PROPERLY ARRANGED Into GENERAL and COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES; LIKEWISE ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, CRITICALLY ILLUSTRATED, and Very COPIOUSLY EXPLAINED, in the Most CLEAR and SATISFACTORY MANNER, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprising a ... Course of ANCIENT and MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and Newest IMPROVEMENTS Made in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY IN Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other Works of the Kind. By Adopting this New and Improved Plan, this Work Includes a Complete Circle of the ARTS and SCIENCES; and Forms a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Encyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with UPWARDS of 150 Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES ... IN THEREE LARGE WOLUMES.
... dragon , in natural hiftory , a fabulous animal , which has been reprefented ... meteor , appearing long and finous , fomething in the fhape of a flying ... breed in the mufcular parts of the arms and legs , called Guinea- worms . This ...
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA, And ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: On an ENTIRE NEW and IMPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Improvements and Latest Discoveries on the Various Subjects. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory Anc Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; ALSO THE WHOLE CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. WHEREIN ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES ARE PROPERLY ARRANGED Into GENERAL and COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES; LIKEWISE ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, CRITICALLY ILLUSTRATED, and Very COPIOUSLY EXPLAINED, in the Most CLEAR and SATISFACTORY MANNER, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprising a ... Course of ANCIENT and MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and Newest IMPROVEMENTS Made in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY IN Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other Works of the Kind. By Adopting this New and Improved Plan, this Work Includes a Complete Circle of the ARTS and SCIENCES; and Forms a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Encyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with UPWARDS of 150 Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES ... IN THEREE LARGE WOLUMES.
... kiln . Dr. Hales is alfo of opinion , that a ventilation of warm dry air from the adjoining ilove , with a cautious hand , might be of fervice to trees and plants in green - houses ; where it is well known that an air full of the rancid ...
Library of Universal Knowledge Being a Reprint Entire of the Last (1879) Edimburgh and London Edition of Chambers Enclycopedia, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge Foe the People [...]: 6
... skins of sheep , such as the thin portion which covers the ... steam - pipes . When this process of digestion has been suffi- ciently carried on , the pieces of skin ... make any others ; they run their plates out very thin , which gives them ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... up a most Excellent river , by Capt . George Waymouth , written by James Rosier , a Gentleman employed in the Voyage . WAYNE , a co ... birth ; 1,920 colored . Co ... born at Waynesborough , Penn . , Jan. 1 , 1745. His grandfather , a native ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Authors
... Hermeneutica Biblica ( 1831 ) ; Ronolder , Herm . Bibl . Principia Rationalia ( Fünf Kirchen , 1838 ) ; Schnittler , Grundlinien der Hermeneutik ( 1844 ) ; Giaire's Hermeneutica Sacra ( 1840 ) . HERM ES , the name of a divinity more ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... Unseen evil is manifested in things hurtful and ugly ; unseen good , in things useful and beautiful . Man is a summary of nature ; na- ture is man in diffusion ; all things , therefore , in nature , in fire , air , earth , and water ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia : with Copious Additions by American Editors
... fire at London Bridge in 1861 was referred to the spontane ous combustion of jute in its ordinary state . With ... BODY . In medico - legal works , cases are recorded , generally of a somewhat ancient date , in which it was supposed that the ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Authors
... school in Boston , was able on entering Harvard college , at the age of 12 , to read not only Virgil and other Latin classics , but Homer and Isocrates in Greek . On taking his first degree at the age of 16 the president addressed him ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... Assyria . Thus , the kingdom of Israel was put an end to under king Hosea ( 722 B. C. ) , by the Assyrian mon- arch Shalmaneser , who , after taking the capital , Samaria , carried the principal inhabit- ants into captivity in Assyria ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... last sovereign of Castile , who succeeded her brother Henry IV . , owing to a widespread belief in the illegitimacy of the latter's daughter . Aragon , on the other hand , was almost wholly free from intestine dissensions , doubtless ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... Tarleton at Black- stocks , but was dangerously wounded . He was made brig , gen , of the S. C. militia , and was ... blackboard exercises , etc. In the first schools , reward tickets were given , and when they had sufliciently ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia : with Copious Additions by American Editors
... card for his partner to trump , unless he has four or more trumps ; for with ... rules of play which have not been explained . The second , third , and ... Isaac Newton , whose acquaintance he had made some years previously , he was ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... manual - reaper will do as much work as nine following the self - deliv ery , so that the saving of a man's labor claimed by the self - delivery is doubtful . The sheaves are rather better formed by the manual machine than by the self ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... made steam - tight Water is poured in with the pieces , and kept at a high temperature by means of the steam in the cases surrounding the pots . By this means the gelatine is quite dissolved out of the skin , and is strained off whilst ...
Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, with Copious Additions by American Editors
... his death , collector of Wilmington . MCLANE , LOUIS , 1786-1857 ; b . Del .; at first entered the navy , but was afterwards called to the bar . He was a member of congress 1817-27 , and was then chosen senator . From 1829 to 1831 he ...
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA; OR, MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF Arts and Sciences: ON ENTIRE NEW AND APPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Discoveries and Latest Improvements on the Various Subject. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts, AND ALL THE VARIOUS RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. Alphabetically Arranged, and Digested in the Most Complete, Regular, and Systematical Manner. Together with Full, Clear, and Satisfactory EXPLANATIONS of ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprizing a Regular and General Course of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and IMPROVEMENTS in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors ... of Other Writers on the Various Subject; And Forming a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Cyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with Near Two Hundred Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of All the Numerous and Various Important Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE LARGE HANDOSME VOLUMES.
... caper - cucumber . BELATUCADRUS , the name of an ancient British idol , fup ... copper : the proportion one to the other is about twenty pounds of pewter ... clapper on the infide , and the ear or cannon on which it hangs to a large beam ...
THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN: IN WHICH ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, ARE ARRANGED INTO COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES. ALSO THE DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, Alphabetically Arranged and Fully Explained, According to the BEST AUTHORITIES. Containing a Digest and Display of the Whole Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts. Comprising a General REPOSITORY of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: Containing All the New IMPROVEMENTS and Latest DISCOVERIES Made in the ARTS and SCIENCES, Particularly Acoustic ... Zoology, &c. Including All the Material Information that is Contained in CHAMBER's CYCLOPAEDIA, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, AND THE FRENCH ENCYCLOPAEDIE. By Introducing and Incorporating Complete Systems on the Sciences, and Distinct Treatises on the Respective Arts, this Work Comprises, Independent of the Alphabetical Arrangement, A GENERAL CIRCLE OF SCIENCE, AND FORMS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, That was Ever Published in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other DICTIONARIES. Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Large Superb COPPER PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of the Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE VOLUMES.
... AIR - GUN , a pneumatic machine for exploding bullets , & c . with great violence . See Syftem of PNEUMATICS . AIR - JACKET , a fort of jacket made of leather , in which are feveral bags , or bladders , compofed of the fame materials ...
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... ( K8 ) , 105 * . 350 Somervice , St. Lawrence ( J3 ) Stockbridge , Madison ... West Galway , Fulton ( M9 ) 300 110 West Granville Corners , Washington 476 ... Gate , Orange ( M15 ) . 55 * . 100 West Eaton , Madison ( J9 ) * . 500 York ...
THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN: IN WHICH ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, ARE ARRANGED INTO COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES. ALSO THE DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, Alphabetically Arranged and Fully Explained, According to the BEST AUTHORITIES. Containing a Digest and Display of the Whole Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts. Comprising a General REPOSITORY of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: Containing All the New IMPROVEMENTS and Latest DISCOVERIES Made in the ARTS and SCIENCES, Particularly Acoustic ... Vermeology, &c. The Superfluities which Abound in Other Dictionaries are Expunged, for the Purpose of Incorporating Complete Systems, and Distinct Treatises. By Means of this Addition and Deviation from the Old Plan it Comprizes A GENERAL CIRCLE OF SCIENCE, AND FORMS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, That was Ever Published in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other DICTIONARIES. Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Large Superb COPPER PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of the Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE VOLUMES.
... line in the field book , viz . S. 87 ° W. 5.50 ; 2d . The offset to the ... below the line of fight and level points , as is generally the cafe ; but if ... figures in the chart , by taking at the fame time the be rocky , fandy , thelly ...
THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN: IN WHICH ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, ARE ARRANGED INTO COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES. ALSO THE DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, Alphabetically Arranged and Fully Explained, According to the BEST AUTHORITIES. Containing a Digest and Display of the Whole Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts. Comprising a General REPOSITORY of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: Containing All the New IMPROVEMENTS and Latest DISCOVERIES Made in the ARTS and SCIENCES, Particularly Acoustic ... Vermeology, &c. The Superfluities which Abound in Other Dictionaries are Expunged, for the Purpose of Incorporating Complete Systems, and Distinct Treatises. By Means of this Addition and Deviation from the Old Plan it Comprizes A GENERAL CIRCLE OF SCIENCE, AND FORMS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, That was Ever Published in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other DICTIONARIES. Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Large Superb COPPER PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of the Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE VOLUMES.
... time , the meafure of two times , or of common time , which is marked by the ... longest of all notes is a femibreve . A minim is half its value ; that is to ... Chords . 121. The chord compofed of a third , a fifth , and an octave , as ...
chamberss encyclopedia a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people
... dark colour , the shadows and extreme depths being sometimes indicated by ... Bohemia , and in the beginning of the 10th c . to Poland . In 1163 , it was ... After the third Silesian war , better known as the SEVEN YEARS ' WAR ( q . v ...
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