Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... amount of profit , who has not prepared his surface and subsoil in the manner we have indicated ; for , be his ... amount and quality of a current crop , but he leaves the soil increased in productiveness for the future . Manures of the ...
... amount of profit , who has not prepared his surface and subsoil in the manner we have indicated ; for , be his ... amount and quality of a current crop , but he leaves the soil increased in productiveness for the future . Manures of the ...
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... amount of inorganic pabulum to sustain crops ; but the real value of every manure , so far as furnishing the constituents of plants is concerned , is due not only to the amount of in- organic food which it contains , but to its ...
... amount of inorganic pabulum to sustain crops ; but the real value of every manure , so far as furnishing the constituents of plants is concerned , is due not only to the amount of in- organic food which it contains , but to its ...
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... amounts of the gaseous products of the atmosphere , as well as those consequent upon organic decay in the soil ; it is found also to be valuable in de- odorizing the effluvia of stables , compost heaps , etc. In soils containing very ...
... amounts of the gaseous products of the atmosphere , as well as those consequent upon organic decay in the soil ; it is found also to be valuable in de- odorizing the effluvia of stables , compost heaps , etc. In soils containing very ...
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... amount of grain when car- rots are substituted in part . We should re- member , however , that for the purpose of inducing appetite , a variety of roots is quite desirable . The cooking of food for cattle is becoming quite general , and ...
... amount of grain when car- rots are substituted in part . We should re- member , however , that for the purpose of inducing appetite , a variety of roots is quite desirable . The cooking of food for cattle is becoming quite general , and ...
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... amount of capital and enterprise now being applied to agriculture , these im- proved results will become patent to all opera- tors ; and let us hope that with the present generation will die out the last vestige of that dogged ...
... amount of capital and enterprise now being applied to agriculture , these im- proved results will become patent to all opera- tors ; and let us hope that with the present generation will die out the last vestige of that dogged ...
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Page 70 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 241 - ... 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 259 - Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 417 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 178 - ... was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
Page 129 - The prevailing ideas, entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen, at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 217 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 192 - ... the Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 133 - 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...
Page 129 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery — subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.