The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 16George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1876 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... less resistance to contend against in blasting . Removing the top rock or the lower " bench is more like open - air quarrying . Longer holes can be drilled , and heavier charges of powder used . At the present day , however , most heavy ...
... less resistance to contend against in blasting . Removing the top rock or the lower " bench is more like open - air quarrying . Longer holes can be drilled , and heavier charges of powder used . At the present day , however , most heavy ...
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... less than one mile . It was begun by sinking a slope to grade on the west- ern side of the mountain , about one third of the distance through , virtually dividing the tunnel into one third of soft ground working at the west , and two ...
... less than one mile . It was begun by sinking a slope to grade on the west- ern side of the mountain , about one third of the distance through , virtually dividing the tunnel into one third of soft ground working at the west , and two ...
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... less delicate species , with smooth scales , from the same localities ; the under jaw is the longer , and the upper eye a little behind the lower ; it is reddish sandy brown , varied with darker , and sprinkled with white pearl - like ...
... less delicate species , with smooth scales , from the same localities ; the under jaw is the longer , and the upper eye a little behind the lower ; it is reddish sandy brown , varied with darker , and sprinkled with white pearl - like ...
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... less so . The sulkies and skeleton wagons employed in the races were improved in con- struction and made lighter and truer . The tracks were laid out upon proper principles , and better cared for . The horses , regularly trained , and ...
... less so . The sulkies and skeleton wagons employed in the races were improved in con- struction and made lighter and truer . The tracks were laid out upon proper principles , and better cared for . The horses , regularly trained , and ...
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... less brilliant , without spurs , often without bristles on the breast , and with a smaller fleshy process above the base of the bill . It has a crop and gizzard , and an intestine four times the length of the body ; the cartilaginous ...
... less brilliant , without spurs , often without bristles on the breast , and with a smaller fleshy process above the base of the bill . It has a crop and gizzard , and an intestine four times the length of the body ; the cartilaginous ...
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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.