"Nicholas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... H. Nicholas Jarchow, LL. D. A treatise on the care of woodlands and the restoration of the denuded timberlands on plains and mountains. The author has fully described those European methods which have proved to be most useful in maintaining the superb forests of the ...
— The Peanut Plant - Its Cultivation And Uses • B. W. Jones
... born at Thorn, and was educated principally at Cracow, Bologna, Padua, and Ferrara. He was a canon of the chapter of Frauenberg, and most probably a priest. During his stay in Italy he was brought into contact with the new views put forward by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and others regarding the position of the earth in the system of the universe. His own studies let him to the conclusion that the sun was the centre round which the earth and all the heavenly bodies moved in their course. He communicated his conclusions ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey
... objective: "The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... Differential Calculus, and on the application of its principles to metaphysics, with a view to the attainment of demonstration and certainty in moral, {75} political and ecclesiastical affairs. By Tresham Dames Gregg,[160] Chaplain of St. Mary's, within the church of St. Nicholas intra muros, Dublin. London, 1859, ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... without a word of opposition, and finally passed both branches without yeas and nays, which is equivalent to an unanimous passage.[12] In this Congress, there were sixteen of the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution. They were John Langdon, Nicholas Oilman, Wm. S. Johnson, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, Thos. Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Clymer, Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, ...
— Abraham Lincoln • George Haven Putnam
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