Everybody's Cyclopedia: A Concise and Accurate Compilation of the World's Knowledge, Volume 3Charles Leonard-Stuart Syndicate publishing Company, 1912 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 8 - The Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers. All of these companies still possess halls, stowed away mostly in narrow streets within the City limits, unknown to fame. Two, however, form con' spicuous objects — the Fishmongers' Hall, facing London Bridge, and the Goldsmiths' Hall, be hind the Post Office.
Page 13 - And Levi made him a great feast in his own house : and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
Page 13 - And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
Page 1 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.
Page 6 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Page 6 - XIV., the art became extinct, ending with a style of painting called camaieu grit, a kind of monochrome, in which the lights are white or gold, and shaded so as to emulate bas-reliefs. Among oriental nations, the Persians, Hindus, and Chinese have illuminated manuscripts of great beauty, .none of which, however, can compete with those of the western nations in antiquity. For beauty of design, some of the Arab manuscripts are charming, but their antiquity does not reach beyond the 13th century. The...
Page 10 - Let me then be refuted and convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures, or by the clearest arguments ; otherwise I cannot and will not recant ; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise, so help me God ! Amen.
Page 1 - States shall protect" each state "on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence." When the Civil War broke out the President was obliged to take prompt steps in calling out the militia, though no application had been made to him as required by the acts of 1792 and 1795. His action was justified by...