The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 4

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George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana
Appleton, 1873
 

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Page 254 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...
Page 259 - Court shall be commenced by a writ of summons, which shall be indorsed with a statement of the nature of the claim made, or of the relief or remedy required in the action...
Page 404 - Kansas, and such other courts as may be authorized by Congress shall have, without reference to the amount in controversy, concurrent jurisdiction over all controversies arising between said...
Page 260 - An Appeal to the Public in behalf of the Church of England in America...
Page 117 - the mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world...
Page 96 - April, 1786, and that same evening the removal from the cemeteries began. This work was always performed at night ; the bones were brought in funeral cars, covered with a pall, followed by priests, chanting the service of the dead, and when they reached the Catacombs were shot down the shaft. The tomb-stones, monuments...
Page 147 - Hood's army, capturing 16 guns and many prisoners, and on the second day continued his operations upon the left wing and rear of the enemy, pressing them by repeated charges of his dismounted horsemen under Hatch, Coon, and Hammond, till Hood sent word to Chalmers, " For God's sake drive the Yankee cavalry from our left and rear, or all is lost.
Page 220 - But it is a curious fact that, whilst in Africa and India both sexes have tusks, with some slight disproportion in the size of those of the females, not one elephant in a hundred is found with tusks in Ceylon, and the few that possess them are exclusively males.
Page 96 - ... the CATACOMBS. — These immense receptacles for the bones of the dead were devoted to that purpose in 1784, when the Council of State issued a decree for clearing the cemetery of the Innocents, and for removing its contents, as well as those of other cemeteries, into the quarries that had existed from a remote period beneath the southern part of Paris, and by which the Observatory, the Luxembourg, the Odeon, the Val de Grace, the Pantheon, the rues de la Harpe, de St.
Page 416 - Batteries have been established to rake the enemy's ibid., p. sot line. If it is broken, as is probable, Armistead, who can witness the effect of the fire, has been ordered to charge with a yell. Do the same.

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