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... Needle JOSEPH HENRY Electricity from Magnetism FARADAY Electricity from Magnetism EDUCATION , 1781-1833 PESTALOZZI The School in Bonnal POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE UNITED STATES , 1833-1860 Slave Conditions BASIL HALL HARRIET MARTINEAU ...
... Needle JOSEPH HENRY Electricity from Magnetism FARADAY Electricity from Magnetism EDUCATION , 1781-1833 PESTALOZZI The School in Bonnal POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE UNITED STATES , 1833-1860 Slave Conditions BASIL HALL HARRIET MARTINEAU ...
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... NEEDLE The first experiments concerning the subject which I am undertak- ing to elucidate , were carried out in the lectures which I gave last win- ter on electricity , galvanism and magnetism . From these experiments it seemed to ...
... NEEDLE The first experiments concerning the subject which I am undertak- ing to elucidate , were carried out in the lectures which I gave last win- ter on electricity , galvanism and magnetism . From these experiments it seemed to ...
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... needle so that the two will be parallel ; for this purpose the wire may be bent at will without doing any harm . When all is so arranged , the magnetic needle will begin to move , so that it turns toward the west under that part of the ...
... needle so that the two will be parallel ; for this purpose the wire may be bent at will without doing any harm . When all is so arranged , the magnetic needle will begin to move , so that it turns toward the west under that part of the ...
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... needle if the turning of the wire be toward the locality of the disturbed needle ; it diminishes , however , if the turn- ing be backward from this locality . ( 6 ) A connecting wire in the same horizontal plane as a magnetic needle ...
... needle if the turning of the wire be toward the locality of the disturbed needle ; it diminishes , however , if the turn- ing be backward from this locality . ( 6 ) A connecting wire in the same horizontal plane as a magnetic needle ...
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... needle suspended i . the same way as the magnetic needle , will not be moved by the action of the connecting wire . A needle of glass , too , or of gum - lac , will remain at rest through all such experi- ments . From all this certain ...
... needle suspended i . the same way as the magnetic needle , will not be moved by the action of the connecting wire . A needle of glass , too , or of gum - lac , will remain at rest through all such experi- ments . From all this certain ...
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Page 209 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 166 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Page 96 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen, — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse—...
Page 204 - Resolved, That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in the federal constitution, is essential to the preservation of our republican institutions, and that the federal constitution, the rights of the states, and the union of the states, shall be preserved.
Page 130 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part — no inconsiderable part — of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure, in the highest...
Page 304 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Page 79 - ... shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not exceeding ninety days; and in addition thereto the county judge shall dismiss him from such service.
Page 185 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 205 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that, as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 156 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...