The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 16George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1876 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... French name paille en queue or straw - tail ; sailors call them boatswain bird and marlinspike . In habits and appearance they come near the gulls and terns ; they are chiefly confined to the tropics . Their powers of flight are great ...
... French name paille en queue or straw - tail ; sailors call them boatswain bird and marlinspike . In habits and appearance they come near the gulls and terns ; they are chiefly confined to the tropics . Their powers of flight are great ...
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... French Truffle ( Tuber melanosporum ) . abundantly on the continent , and in Africa . The existence of truffles in the United States is very doubtful ; the occasional announcement of their discovery is due to the finding of the Indian ...
... French Truffle ( Tuber melanosporum ) . abundantly on the continent , and in Africa . The existence of truffles in the United States is very doubtful ; the occasional announcement of their discovery is due to the finding of the Indian ...
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... French frigate L'Insurgente , 40 guns , which was much cut up , and lost 29 men killed and 41 wounded . The Constellation sustained but little injury , and had one man killed and three wounded . On Feb. 1 , 1800 , the Constel- lation ...
... French frigate L'Insurgente , 40 guns , which was much cut up , and lost 29 men killed and 41 wounded . The Constellation sustained but little injury , and had one man killed and three wounded . On Feb. 1 , 1800 , the Constel- lation ...
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... French general capable of coping with Monte- cuculi . He therefore continued in command , and during four months the manoeuvres and strategic operations of the two generals were subjects of universal admiration . Finally Tu- renne ...
... French general capable of coping with Monte- cuculi . He therefore continued in command , and during four months the manoeuvres and strategic operations of the two generals were subjects of universal admiration . Finally Tu- renne ...
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... French , have been trans- lated into English , German , and other lan- guages . Among them are " Liza , " " On the Eve , " " Dmitri Rudin , " " Journal of a Useless Man , " and " A Lear of the Steppe . " TURGOT , Anne Robert Jacques ...
... French , have been trans- lated into English , German , and other lan- guages . Among them are " Liza , " " On the Eve , " " Dmitri Rudin , " " Journal of a Useless Man , " and " A Lear of the Steppe . " TURGOT , Anne Robert Jacques ...
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Page 178 - States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens...
Page 179 - Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired. Justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 167 - ... 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 must and shall be preserved.
Page 151 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 168 - 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 163 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 168 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Page 178 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 167 - That the new dogma, that the constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent ; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
Page 439 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.