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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... half millions sterling , chargeable with an annual interest of four and a half millions , wished to transfer a portion of the burden to her colonies , and attempted to infringe their rights ry the imposition of the celebrated stamp ...
... half millions sterling , chargeable with an annual interest of four and a half millions , wished to transfer a portion of the burden to her colonies , and attempted to infringe their rights ry the imposition of the celebrated stamp ...
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... half of the number embarked in them , apprehending severe sufferings from the cold and the want of food . Part of the buildings and provis- ions were soon after destroyed by fire ; and Captain Popham died before spring . The first ships ...
... half of the number embarked in them , apprehending severe sufferings from the cold and the want of food . Part of the buildings and provis- ions were soon after destroyed by fire ; and Captain Popham died before spring . The first ships ...
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... half miles from York , and Cape Ned- head of it . Benedict Arnold was among dock lies beyond . While travelling the most active of the officers . After along this dreary country , the road pass- numerous delays , caused by the ...
... half miles from York , and Cape Ned- head of it . Benedict Arnold was among dock lies beyond . While travelling the most active of the officers . After along this dreary country , the road pass- numerous delays , caused by the ...
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... half dollars ; board , from one dollar to one dollar and a half per week . The course of lectures in the medical college continues fourteen weeks . Four or five lectures are delivered daily . The fees are about fifty dollars . MEREDITH ...
... half dollars ; board , from one dollar to one dollar and a half per week . The course of lectures in the medical college continues fourteen weeks . Four or five lectures are delivered daily . The fees are about fifty dollars . MEREDITH ...
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... half a mile in breadth , and from one to five miles in length . Scarcely any natural occur- rence can be imagined more sublime ; and among the devastation which it has left to testify the power of the elements , the traveller will be ...
... half a mile in breadth , and from one to five miles in length . Scarcely any natural occur- rence can be imagined more sublime ; and among the devastation which it has left to testify the power of the elements , the traveller will be ...
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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...