The American Annual Cyclopędia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1865 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... latter hundred and eight miles above Mobile by the part of the last century . In 1814 appeared river : as a shipping point for iron , coal , ammu- " Lorimer , a Tale , " a work of considerable nition and Commissary stores , it is of the ...
... latter hundred and eight miles above Mobile by the part of the last century . In 1814 appeared river : as a shipping point for iron , coal , ammu- " Lorimer , a Tale , " a work of considerable nition and Commissary stores , it is of the ...
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... latter republic with a declaration of war and even with annexation to Brazil . These reported intentions of Brazil produced a great excitement in the upper prov- inces of the Argentine Republic and in Para- guay , both of which feel ...
... latter republic with a declaration of war and even with annexation to Brazil . These reported intentions of Brazil produced a great excitement in the upper prov- inces of the Argentine Republic and in Para- guay , both of which feel ...
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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 mate- rial in large quantities , and more cheaply than could before be done ; and as these objects were presently accomplished by operating on benzole , it will be important here briefly to trace the relations and show the nature ...
... latter mate- rial in large quantities , and more cheaply than could before be done ; and as these objects were presently accomplished by operating on benzole , it will be important here briefly to trace the relations and show the nature ...
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Page 310 - 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 330 - 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 197 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 332 - 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 253 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present,...
Page 150 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 330 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 273 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 233 - That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.
Page 67 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.