The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ..., Volume 4; Volume 1864D. Appleton & Company, 1869 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... latter class , one is known to have been a mixture of extracts with which a sponge was saturated ; and when to be used , the sponge was wet in warm water , and the emanations were inhaled until stupor fol- lowed . But , in western and ...
... latter class , one is known to have been a mixture of extracts with which a sponge was saturated ; and when to be used , the sponge was wet in warm water , and the emanations were inhaled until stupor fol- lowed . But , in western and ...
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... latter of the painlessness , for the time , of a wound which a person inhaling the gas at one of Dr. Colton's exhibitions of it had inflicted upon himself . Dr. Wells laid aside the use of the nitrous oxide , after its failure on the ...
... latter of the painlessness , for the time , of a wound which a person inhaling the gas at one of Dr. Colton's exhibitions of it had inflicted upon himself . Dr. Wells laid aside the use of the nitrous oxide , after its failure on the ...
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... latter of bi - chloride of carbon , the reaction being accompanied by the appearance of a magnificent crimson color . This appears to have been the first notice of the aniline crim- son ( aniline red ) , subsequently named by its ...
... latter of bi - chloride of carbon , the reaction being accompanied by the appearance of a magnificent crimson color . This appears to have been the first notice of the aniline crim- son ( aniline red ) , subsequently named by its ...
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... latter expression appears sometimes to be used as equivalent to the former . Since the time when Verguin and the Ré- nard brothers brought out the aniline crimson , by action of a chloride of tin on aniline , other chemists and ...
... latter expression appears sometimes to be used as equivalent to the former . Since the time when Verguin and the Ré- nard brothers brought out the aniline crimson , by action of a chloride of tin on aniline , other chemists and ...
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... latter , by passing through it a current of steam , condensing , and adding nitric acid . The nitrate of the base is thus formed , and being extremely insoluble in water , is at once pre- cipitated . The base , isolated , is in form of ...
... latter , by passing through it a current of steam , condensing , and adding nitric acid . The nitrate of the base is thus formed , and being extremely insoluble in water , is at once pre- cipitated . The base , isolated , is in form of ...
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Page 312 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
Page 332 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 255 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Page 334 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 449 - I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law.
Page 284 - ... has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 332 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 389 - ... now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 134 - The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners, guarding railroad bridges, and forming a good part of their garrisons for entrenched positions. A man lost by them cannot be replaced. They have robbed the cradle and the grave equally to get their present force.
Page 319 - An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes...