A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Հատոր 5A. Fullarton & Company, 1832 |
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... capital of the 15 provinces . The distance expressed is not horizontal as measured on a map , but by road stages , originally given in Chinese lis or furlongs of 250 to a degree , and these reduced to geographical miles . The province ...
... capital of the 15 provinces . The distance expressed is not horizontal as measured on a map , but by road stages , originally given in Chinese lis or furlongs of 250 to a degree , and these reduced to geographical miles . The province ...
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... capital , the gentlemen of the British embassy perceived no appearance of great cultivation . The greater part of the land was sour swampy ground , covered with coarse grass , rushes , and reeds ; and few trees were to be seen , except ...
... capital , the gentlemen of the British embassy perceived no appearance of great cultivation . The greater part of the land was sour swampy ground , covered with coarse grass , rushes , and reeds ; and few trees were to be seen , except ...
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... capital , Nan - king . The productions of the Chinese looms are said to be more showy than substantial ; their bro- cades are embroidered with silk paper , and are therefore soon spoiled . Gauzes , whether flowered or plain , are the ...
... capital , Nan - king . The productions of the Chinese looms are said to be more showy than substantial ; their bro- cades are embroidered with silk paper , and are therefore soon spoiled . Gauzes , whether flowered or plain , are the ...
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... capital crime, though the dose should not take effect. Killing in a scuffle, is also punished with death. Killing, or even wounding by mere accident, is still punishable by death ; only, in this case, the offender may redeem himself, by ...
... capital crime, though the dose should not take effect. Killing in a scuffle, is also punished with death. Killing, or even wounding by mere accident, is still punishable by death ; only, in this case, the offender may redeem himself, by ...
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... capital offence in any of them to fail in showing due respect to the person of the sovereign . This tribunal sends an inspector general , called Ko - tao , to each of the six supreme tri- bunals , who takes no part in the deliberations ...
... capital offence in any of them to fail in showing due respect to the person of the sovereign . This tribunal sends an inspector general , called Ko - tao , to each of the six supreme tri- bunals , who takes no part in the deliberations ...
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Էջ 359 - The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Էջ 289 - ... of success in any mode of contest where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and Impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms.
Էջ 362 - ... first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by...
Էջ 368 - ... offices, which are to be held by appointment of the governor, or the governor and council, or the senate, or the house of representatives, or by the election of the people of the state at large, or of the people of any county, military offices, and the offices of justices of the peace excepted, shall be held by one person. No person holding the office of judge of the supreme judicial court — secretary — attorney-general — solicitorgeneral — treasurer or receiver-general — judge of probate...
Էջ 362 - After the first enumeration, required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number...
Էջ 289 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms.
Էջ 352 - When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes it has proceeded, that the other countries of Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed any name in the roll of poets...
Էջ 331 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 323 - Since our arrival at the Falls we have repeatedly heard a strange noise coming from the mountains in a direction a little to the north of west. It is heard at different periods of the day and night, sometimes when the air is perfectly still and without a cloud, and consists of one stroke only, or of five or six discharges in quick succession. It is loud, and resembles precisely the sound of a six-pound piece of ordnance at the distance of three miles.
Էջ 362 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.