Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1852 - 453 páginas |
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... whole art of teaching the deaf and dumb , formed on most scien- tific principles ? The power of gravitation , and the laws which govern the revolution of the whole planetary system , deduced , by philosophy , from the fall of an apple ...
... whole art of teaching the deaf and dumb , formed on most scien- tific principles ? The power of gravitation , and the laws which govern the revolution of the whole planetary system , deduced , by philosophy , from the fall of an apple ...
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... whole was the voluntary produc- tion of free men , during a few months only ; and that , put in motion by the enterprise of only a small number of capitalists in the neigh- boring country and cities . But let the traveller pause longer ...
... whole was the voluntary produc- tion of free men , during a few months only ; and that , put in motion by the enterprise of only a small number of capitalists in the neigh- boring country and cities . But let the traveller pause longer ...
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... whole , and , through the mysteries of double - entry , keeping the results of the whole with the accuracy of mathematics , and the rigorous analysis of the highest logic . Nor is it unusual here for a single master - mind , in ...
... whole , and , through the mysteries of double - entry , keeping the results of the whole with the accuracy of mathematics , and the rigorous analysis of the highest logic . Nor is it unusual here for a single master - mind , in ...
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... whole world witnesses their effects as applied scientifically to this wonderful treasure of the giant west . A similar illustration exists in the case of our mineral coal . Let travellers look at the moun- tains of it piled up on the ...
... whole world witnesses their effects as applied scientifically to this wonderful treasure of the giant west . A similar illustration exists in the case of our mineral coal . Let travellers look at the moun- tains of it piled up on the ...
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... whole west and south - west large donations of land , to assist in instilling some of the elements of science and letters into all , to help to remove the forest and stir the soil , not only of that vast territory , but of every human ...
... whole west and south - west large donations of land , to assist in instilling some of the elements of science and letters into all , to help to remove the forest and stir the soil , not only of that vast territory , but of every human ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acres advance agriculture American article Cotton arts Baines beauty become better Blackwood's Magazine Brazil capital cause cent century character chiefly civilization cloth commerce computed constitutions cotton manufactures crop cultivation Demarara duty Edinburgh Review Egypt elevated Encyclop England enterprise equal estimated Europe exist exports feet foreign France Hampshire hereafter human hundred imports improvements increased independent India influence institutions intelligence inventions Israel river kind labor lands laws less liberty live live-oak timber Liverpool Louisiana machinery McCulloch means ment millions of dollars millions of pounds mind moral mountains nations nature ocean opinion Orleans persons places political portion practical present principles progress quantity race raw cotton religion respect Revolution river Russia Smithers society soil South Carolina Spain spindles spirit steamboat supply Table tion trees truth Turkey United vessels West Indies whole yearly
Passagens conhecidas
Página 393 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
Página 202 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 44 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it : the die is cast, the book is written ; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Página 202 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 120 - Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, \ Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms, with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Página 202 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 21 - There is no end to machinery. Even the horse is stripped of his harness, and finds a fleet fire-horse yoked in his stead.
Página 202 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 415 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on...
Página 202 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.