A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History, Geographical Position, Agricultural and Mineral Resources ... Etc., Etc. Interspersed with Revolutionary and Other Interesting Incidents Connected with the Early Settlement of the Country ...J. A. Lee & Company, 1876 - 648 頁 |
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... amount of authentic information not easily to be surpassed in importance , variety , and interest , without greatly exceeding the limits to which we have been confined . It has been our constant study to pursue the happy medium between ...
... amount of authentic information not easily to be surpassed in importance , variety , and interest , without greatly exceeding the limits to which we have been confined . It has been our constant study to pursue the happy medium between ...
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... Amount imported 222 193 Coal - Mines ... 218 , 233 , 243 195 Accident in , in 1845 .. 244 195 Coal Statistics ... 220 196 New York Association .. 194 Coal - Trade , Anecdotes of .. Delaware and Hudson Canal Easton .... 220 234 238 ...
... Amount imported 222 193 Coal - Mines ... 218 , 233 , 243 195 Accident in , in 1845 .. 244 195 Coal Statistics ... 220 196 New York Association .. 194 Coal - Trade , Anecdotes of .. Delaware and Hudson Canal Easton .... 220 234 238 ...
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... amount of business . The population of Bangor experi- enced a very rapid increase in the course of a few years . In 1793 , there were In 1793 , there were but forty - five rateable polls in the town . In 1800 , the population was 277 ...
... amount of business . The population of Bangor experi- enced a very rapid increase in the course of a few years . In 1793 , there were In 1793 , there were but forty - five rateable polls in the town . In 1800 , the population was 277 ...
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... amount of the enemy's loss in these actions was two hundred and seven killed , an unknown number wounded , and about seven hundred pris- oners ; four brass fieldpieces , twelve base- drums , two hundred and fifty dragoon swords , and ...
... amount of the enemy's loss in these actions was two hundred and seven killed , an unknown number wounded , and about seven hundred pris- oners ; four brass fieldpieces , twelve base- drums , two hundred and fifty dragoon swords , and ...
第 63 頁
... amounts , in the aggregate , town having less than 300 polls , to be over fifty millions of dollars . represented as many years within ten years , as 300 is contained in the product of the number of polls in said town , multiplied by ...
... amounts , in the aggregate , town having less than 300 polls , to be over fifty millions of dollars . represented as many years within ten years , as 300 is contained in the product of the number of polls in said town , multiplied by ...
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第 306 頁 - The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
第 646 頁 - Congress assembled, that all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, to wit: bounded on the west by the state of California, on the north by the territory of Oregon, and on the east by the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and on the south by the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude...
第 305 頁 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
第 113 頁 - There is a twofold liberty— natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt), and civil or federal. The first is common to man, with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.
第 316 頁 - Three years later a new and enlarged charter was given to the "Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony in Virginia.
第 214 頁 - I am glad of it; that is as it ought to be, but as I was not quite sure of the fact, I thought I would ascertain it from yourself, as I propose to join with you on that occasion. Though a member of the church of England, I have no exclusive partialities.
第 324 頁 - ... to be in readiness, at a moment's warning, to re-assemble, and, by force of arms to defend the laws, the liberty, and rights of this, or any sister colony, from unjust and wicked invasion.
第 303 頁 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache.
第 113 頁 - ... a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority. The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores.
第 112 頁 - The covenant between you and us is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this purpose, that we shall govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's laws and our own, according to our best skill. When you agree with a...