The United States and CubaPewtress & Company, 1857 - 476 Seiten |
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... miles in length , and 2,000 in width , having in its broadest part 40 ° of longitude . Its greatest length , from ... miles . The greatest breadth of North America , at the fifty - first parallel , from Cape St. Louis to the Pacific ...
... miles in length , and 2,000 in width , having in its broadest part 40 ° of longitude . Its greatest length , from ... miles . The greatest breadth of North America , at the fifty - first parallel , from Cape St. Louis to the Pacific ...
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... miles in diameter . North America comprises the northern division of the western continent , and extends from the ... miles , with a population now amounting to 60,000,000 . The area of North America is usually calculated in English ...
... miles in diameter . North America comprises the northern division of the western continent , and extends from the ... miles , with a population now amounting to 60,000,000 . The area of North America is usually calculated in English ...
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... miles , or thirteen leagues , being in latitude 66 ° north , and longitude 170 ° west . The straits which divide North America from Tartary , " says another authority , " are so narrow as to admit an easy passage from one continent to ...
... miles , or thirteen leagues , being in latitude 66 ° north , and longitude 170 ° west . The straits which divide North America from Tartary , " says another authority , " are so narrow as to admit an easy passage from one continent to ...
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... miles in length ; rising to their highest altitude in Virginia ; their breadth varying from fifty to one hundred and twenty miles . The chain of the Rocky Moun- tains is nearly nine thousand miles in length , and from one to three ...
... miles in length ; rising to their highest altitude in Virginia ; their breadth varying from fifty to one hundred and twenty miles . The chain of the Rocky Moun- tains is nearly nine thousand miles in length , and from one to three ...
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... miles of dead level , without a tree or a stone ; but in parts are covered during summer with thistles five or six feet in height . They are chiefly found to the west- ward , between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains ; and from ...
... miles of dead level , without a tree or a stone ; but in parts are covered during summer with thistles five or six feet in height . They are chiefly found to the west- ward , between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains ; and from ...
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Seite 471 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 189 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD -*- from the heavens : praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : praise him, all ye stars of light.
Seite 26 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Seite 350 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 190 - Let them praise the name of the Lord; for he commanded, and they were created.
Seite 403 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba . as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our / system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Seite 159 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Seite 26 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Seite 222 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity. Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens.
Seite 26 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.