A New Family Encyclopedia: Or, Compendium of Universal Knowledge : Comprehending a Plain and Practical View of Those Subjects, Most Interesting to Persons, in the Ordinary Professions of LifeCharles Augustus Goodrich T. Belknap, 1835 - 468 Seiten |
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... manner , as to render the work intelligible and use- ful . By this means , he has been enabled , he trusts , in a meas- ure , to avoid a serious ojection which has sometimes been made to the portable Encyclopedias extant , that they ...
... manner , as to render the work intelligible and use- ful . By this means , he has been enabled , he trusts , in a meas- ure , to avoid a serious ojection which has sometimes been made to the portable Encyclopedias extant , that they ...
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... Manner of raising Cotton ; Process of manufacturing Cotton into Cloth ; Silk Manufacture ; Satin ; Velvet ; Taffetty ; Gauze ; Tabby ; Brocade ; Stockings ; Histo- ry of Silk ; Mulberry Tree ; Mode of Cultivation ; Eggs of Silk Worms ...
... Manner of raising Cotton ; Process of manufacturing Cotton into Cloth ; Silk Manufacture ; Satin ; Velvet ; Taffetty ; Gauze ; Tabby ; Brocade ; Stockings ; Histo- ry of Silk ; Mulberry Tree ; Mode of Cultivation ; Eggs of Silk Worms ...
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... manner of living . These circumstances are sufficient , at least , to render the Tartars more swarthy than the Eu- ropeans , who want nothing to make life easy and agreeable . - Why are the Chinese fairer than the Tartars , though they ...
... manner of living . These circumstances are sufficient , at least , to render the Tartars more swarthy than the Eu- ropeans , who want nothing to make life easy and agreeable . - Why are the Chinese fairer than the Tartars , though they ...
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... manner the desire of any thing under the appearance of its goodness , suitableness , or necessity to our happiness , constitutes the passion of love : the desire of avoiding any thing hurtful or destructive constitutes hatred or ...
... manner the desire of any thing under the appearance of its goodness , suitableness , or necessity to our happiness , constitutes the passion of love : the desire of avoiding any thing hurtful or destructive constitutes hatred or ...
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... manner it may become a passion , an affection , or a dispo- sition . Sympathy indicates a susceptible mind , and impels men to plunge into water , or rush into flames , to succor a fellow creature . The sympathetic affections are very ...
... manner it may become a passion , an affection , or a dispo- sition . Sympathy indicates a susceptible mind , and impels men to plunge into water , or rush into flames , to succor a fellow creature . The sympathetic affections are very ...
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Seite 451 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade or any other pretence whatever.
Seite 128 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Seite 453 - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Seite 378 - If you plant in the fall, cut them down as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, and before the buds begin to swell; and, if you plant in the spring, cut down as soon as you have
Seite 452 - Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Seite 208 - To give it a polish, it is put into a tub containing a quantity of bran, which is set in motion by turning a shaft that runs through its centre, and thus by means of friction it becomes perfectly bright. The pin being complete, nothing remains but to separate it from the bran, which is performed...
Seite 437 - ... the whole should protect all its parts, and that every part should pay obedience to the will of the whole; or, in other words, that the community should guard the rights of' each individual member, and that (in return for this protection) each individual should submit to the laws CHAP. of the community; without which submission of all ¿; it was impossible that protection could be certainly extended to any.
Seite 450 - He shall be at least thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this State at least five years immediately preceding his election.
Seite 120 - ... more, and that it moved at the rate of one mile in a minute, four hours, the time it continued passing, would make its whole length two hundred and forty miles. Again, supposing that each square yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yards in the whole...
Seite 120 - ... surprising. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with their dung; all the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. The marks of this desolation remain for many years on the spot; and numerous places could be pointed out where for several years after, scarce a single vegetable...