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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 6: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyAdapted for the of ¿ocks. The Grecian islands lie ar a fortunate sky, and are most of them richin wine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 7: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyB: If nus-nub, that on the tenth day of August, in the any-fourth you of the Indus-ulna. Of the United molama.d.lw, -mudhthh omen thafitbofsbwhthorigln whomflbeyclnmupropriotou¿ntbewodl followingtov t.About t...

Excerpt from Legal and Political Hermeneutics, or Principles of Interpretation and Construction in Law and Politics: With Remarks on Precedents and AuthoritiesThe second edition of the Hermeneutics was published in 1839, and has now been out of print for almost forty years. In 1860 Dr. Lieber carefully revised it, and made additions to both text and notes, expecting to pub lish a third edition, with a second part, of Special Hermeneutics, or L...

Excerpt from The Stranger in America, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising Sketches of the Manners, Society, and National Peculiarities of the United States, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in EuropeFrom Albany to Schenectady, you travel by rail-road, and the least exciting of all travelling, it seems to me, is decidedly locomotion by steam on a rail-road.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...

Excerpt from Manual of Political Ethics, Vol. 2: Designed Chiefly for the Use of CollegesWar. - Definitions. - Present Exaggerations against Wan - Christian Re ligion does not prohibit just War, neither the Bible, nor the early Writers of the Church. - Objections against War on the Score of Moral ity, of Reason, of Political Economy. - Just and Patriotic Wars have morally raised Nations. - Etemal Peace. - Arbitration by a Congress of Nations -...

Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 4: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present TimeIn St.' Thomas, for instance, the latter is spoken in Hayti, french-creole. Among the numerous corruptions 'of European.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an ...

Excerpt from On Civil Liberty and Self-GovernmentThere are now in different portions Of this country not far from a thousand citizens in the formation of whose minds I have had some share as a teacher. Many of you are in places of authority, and I consider myself more fortunate than the great founder of political science in this, that Aristotle taught a royal youth and future conqueror, and Athenians indeed, but at a period when the sun of Gre...

Excerpt from The Ancient and the Modern Teacher of Politics: An Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on the State, Delivered on the 10th of October, 1850, in the Law School of Columbia CollegeThis day I beg to make some preliminary remarks, chie¿y intended to point out to you the position which, so far as I can discern, a public teacher of politics in this country and at this period, either occupies of necessity, or ought to occupy.A...

Excerpt from Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 1: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyIn comparia with the present state of the world, how small was the theatre on which the gods of Grecian fable and the heroes of Grecian his tory. Performed their parts in that interesting drama! During the peri...

Excerpt from On Civil Liberty and Self-Government, Vol. 1 of 2There are now in different portions of this country not far from a thousand citizens in the formation of whose minds I have had some share as a teacher. Many of Q you are in places'of authority, and I con. Sider myself more fortunate than the great founder of political science in this, that Aristotle taught a royal youth and future conqueror, and Athenians indeed, but at a period wh...

Excerpt from The Ancient and the Modern Teacher of Politics: An Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on the State, Delivered on the 10th of October, 1850, in the Law School of Columbia CollegeThis day I beg to make some preliminary remarks, chie¿y intended to point out to you the position which, so far as I can discern, a public teacher of politics in this country and at this period, either occupies of necessity, or ought to occupy.A...

Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 6: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyGreece, Revolution of. Modern. (for the history of Greece under the Eastern empire, see Byzantine Empire and for the period from the downfall of' this empire to the late revolution, see Turkey, and Venice.)Abou...

Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 12: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyStevens, George Alexander, a whim sicel and eccentric character, was born in London, and brought up to a mechanical business, which he quitted to become a strolling player. In 1751, he published a poem entitl...

Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 9: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyMonseigneur (french, my lord) a title of dignity in France, the dauphin was formerly styled monseigneur, without any addition. Princes, archbishops, bishops, cardinals, marshals of France, presidents of parli...

Excerpt from On Civil Liberty and Self-Government, Vol. 2 of 2Duces on the individual, on society, and on whole periods, and how it acts far beyond the limits of its.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserv...

Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 13: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present TimeVistula (polish, Weichsel), a river about 500 milesdong, navigable from Cracow, which rises in the. Principality of Teschen, in Austrian SI lesia, on the northern dechvrty Of the Carpathian mountains, ¿ows round the territory of Cracow and Galllcia, through the kingdom Of Poland, tow...

Excerpt from Essays on Property and Labour as Connected With Natural Law and the Constitution of SocietyHaving been requested by the author and his publishers to introduce this volume with a few prefatory remarks, I take pleasure in complying with the request, but without.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important h...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Intercourse With Mr. Niebuhr, the Historian, During a Residence With Him in Rome, in the Years 1822 and 1823I might have grouped the di¿'erent aphorisms un der some general heads, but even this arrangement seemed to me to indicate a promise of giving some thing complete, or, at any rate, it appeared to me to deprive the various sentiments Ofthat desultory cha racter which they ought to retain in order to remain...

Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 3: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, LiteratureCavatina a short air Without a return or second part, and which is sometimes relieved with recitative.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitall...

Excerpt from A Popular Essay on Subjects of Penal Law: And on Uninterrupted Solitary Confinement at Labor, as Contradistinguished to Solitary Confinement at Night and Joint Labor by Day, in a Letter to John Bacon, EsquireI shall have to touch on the charges, implied in these lines, which seem written with so much emphasis, and therefore dismiss for the present this repetition of charges, long ago proved to be false, leaving it in the meantime ...