The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 8Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... Society for Belgium , Italy and Spain . With Marx he wrote the ' Communist Manifesto ( 1847 ) ; he also wrote The Working Class in England in 1844 ( new edition 1892 ) ; The Origin of the Family ; The Development of Socialism from ...
... Society for Belgium , Italy and Spain . With Marx he wrote the ' Communist Manifesto ( 1847 ) ; he also wrote The Working Class in England in 1844 ( new edition 1892 ) ; The Origin of the Family ; The Development of Socialism from ...
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... Society to complete and issue the ' History of Indiana ' which he had begun . English Art . The history of English art embraces four divisions , that is , Architecture , Engraving , Painting and Sculpture . Architecture . - Numerous so ...
... Society to complete and issue the ' History of Indiana ' which he had begun . English Art . The history of English art embraces four divisions , that is , Architecture , Engraving , Painting and Sculpture . Architecture . - Numerous so ...
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... society and government and law and manners which the last 100 years has introduced , as the " democratization " of English institutions ; but the word would rather be rationalization . The state , the Church , the aristocracy , and the ...
... society and government and law and manners which the last 100 years has introduced , as the " democratization " of English institutions ; but the word would rather be rationalization . The state , the Church , the aristocracy , and the ...
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... society of which we have record was formed in 1842 , and was The Ento- mological Society of Pennsylvania , which has long been out of existence . The American En- tomological Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 under the name of ...
... society of which we have record was formed in 1842 , and was The Ento- mological Society of Pennsylvania , which has long been out of existence . The American En- tomological Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 under the name of ...
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... society is altogether anomalous . As Letchworth well says : " As a child he is an object of solici- tude to his parents and guardians . The streets to him are full of dangers , and if sent to school he is apt to have seizures on the way ...
... society is altogether anomalous . As Letchworth well says : " As a child he is an object of solici- tude to his parents and guardians . The streets to him are full of dangers , and if sent to school he is apt to have seizures on the way ...
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Page 24 - And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Page 24 - No man hath seen God at any time ; the onlybegotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.
Page 23 - There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
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Page 24 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.
Page 23 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and' discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
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Page 23 - A preclusion in law which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact in consequence of his own previous act, allegation, or denial of a contrary tenor.
Page 11 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.