A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various DivisionsA. Fullarton and Company, 1831 |
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... degrees must be added , making 23 in whole . The superficies of 1,298,000 square miles only includes the provinces ... degree , and these reduced to geographical miles . The province at the foot of the table , called Fong - t'hyen - fu ...
... degrees must be added , making 23 in whole . The superficies of 1,298,000 square miles only includes the provinces ... degree , and these reduced to geographical miles . The province at the foot of the table , called Fong - t'hyen - fu ...
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... degree of The Chinese have a method of hatching spawn of fish , and thus protecting it from those accidents which ordinarily destroy so large a portion of it . The fishermen col- leet with care , on the margin and surface of the water ...
... degree of The Chinese have a method of hatching spawn of fish , and thus protecting it from those accidents which ordinarily destroy so large a portion of it . The fishermen col- leet with care , on the margin and surface of the water ...
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... degree of wealth , acquired chiefly by trading in their pro- gress through the East . About the middle of the 16th century , Francis Xavier , at the head of a company of Romish missionaries of the order of Jesuits , reached the island ...
... degree of wealth , acquired chiefly by trading in their pro- gress through the East . About the middle of the 16th century , Francis Xavier , at the head of a company of Romish missionaries of the order of Jesuits , reached the island ...
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... degree wear a blue gown , with a black border round it , and a pewter or silver bird on the top of their cap ; those who have taken the second degree are dis- tinguished by a dark - coloured gown with a blue border , and wear a gold or ...
... degree wear a blue gown , with a black border round it , and a pewter or silver bird on the top of their cap ; those who have taken the second degree are dis- tinguished by a dark - coloured gown with a blue border , and wear a gold or ...
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... degree , are indiscriminately beheaded ; all their female relations are sold into slavery ; and all their connexions residing in their households , relentlessly put to death . Even to intrude into the line of the imperial retinue while ...
... degree , are indiscriminately beheaded ; all their female relations are sold into slavery ; and all their connexions residing in their households , relentlessly put to death . Even to intrude into the line of the imperial retinue while ...
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Էջ 395 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Էջ 395 - ... concerned, as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECT. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on application...
Էջ 304 - 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 303 - If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe, that the Divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others...
Էջ 380 - 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 396 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Էջ 395 - ... but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Sect. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union ; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress. The Congress...
Էջ 371 - It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters.
Էջ 381 - America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well as of the nobler kinds, which arouse the best feelings of man, which call him into action, which substantiate his freedom, and conduct him to happiness, as of the subordinate, which serve to amuse him only. We therefore suppose, that this reproach is as unjust as it is unkind; and that, of the geniuses which adorn the present age, America contributes its full share.
Էջ 30 - ... are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into the pond with the old fish.