The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 19Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... studied for the law , began practising at Auburn in 1823 , but soon indicated a decided bent for politics , which grad- VOL . 19-1 ually drew him away from the legal profession . In 1830 he was elected as an anti - Masonic can- didate ...
... studied for the law , began practising at Auburn in 1823 , but soon indicated a decided bent for politics , which grad- VOL . 19-1 ually drew him away from the legal profession . In 1830 he was elected as an anti - Masonic can- didate ...
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... studied law . His comedy , ' The Sullen Lovers ' ( 1668 ) , was successful and he thereafter devoted himself to literature . He wrote 17 plays , the most of them modeled on the style of Ben Jonson , which caricatured with genuine humor ...
... studied law . His comedy , ' The Sullen Lovers ' ( 1668 ) , was successful and he thereafter devoted himself to literature . He wrote 17 plays , the most of them modeled on the style of Ben Jonson , which caricatured with genuine humor ...
Halaman 12
... - erature are such as a schoolboy might make from Virgil , Ovid , and the other authors he had studied ; and his allusions to classical his- tory and mythology are mostly from the same sources , or from the familiar stock in English books.
... - erature are such as a schoolboy might make from Virgil , Ovid , and the other authors he had studied ; and his allusions to classical his- tory and mythology are mostly from the same sources , or from the familiar stock in English books.
Halaman 12
... studied in men and things , the most useful knowledge for a dramatic writer . " We see that Tate had failed in his endeavor to find proof of Shakespeare's learning , thus indirectly confirming the unani- mous testimony of the critics of ...
... studied in men and things , the most useful knowledge for a dramatic writer . " We see that Tate had failed in his endeavor to find proof of Shakespeare's learning , thus indirectly confirming the unani- mous testimony of the critics of ...
Halaman 12
... studied law , but abandoned it to accept a place in the ordnance office . He was the patron of the slave Somerset , whom he found in the streets of London in 1769 , having been turned away by his master because of illness . Sharp placed ...
... studied law , but abandoned it to accept a place in the ordnance office . He was the patron of the slave Somerset , whom he found in the streets of London in 1769 , having been turned away by his master because of illness . Sharp placed ...
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Halaman 31 - John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Halaman 31 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, \/ to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Halaman 12 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Halaman 66 - Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent by the Secretary of the Senate to the President of the United States...
Halaman 66 - ... by and with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen of the said country, or the greater part of them, or of their delegates or deputies...
Halaman 44 - ... thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought him, but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at die same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.
Halaman 66 - I have been parted from my wife by something worse than death. Forty years she has been the life of my life ; and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum.
Halaman 46 - Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York...
Halaman 12 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Halaman 6 - ... have by a long selection of the more attractive males, added to their beauty or other attractive qualities.