The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volumen15George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana Appleton, 1876 |
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... province of Jebel Shomer lies across this waste in a S. E. direction through what is called the Nefud or Sand pass , consisting of parallel ridges of loose reddish sand 200 to 300 ft . high , where no water can be obtained for nearly ...
... province of Jebel Shomer lies across this waste in a S. E. direction through what is called the Nefud or Sand pass , consisting of parallel ridges of loose reddish sand 200 to 300 ft . high , where no water can be obtained for nearly ...
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... province , which includes the country on the left bank of the Amoor from the Stanovoi mountains to the N. E. extremity of Mantchooria . The Littoral province covers the entire E. coast from Cape Shelagski in the Arctic ocean to the sea ...
... province , which includes the country on the left bank of the Amoor from the Stanovoi mountains to the N. E. extremity of Mantchooria . The Littoral province covers the entire E. coast from Cape Shelagski in the Arctic ocean to the sea ...
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... province the Ya- blonnoi , further W. the Daurian and Sayanian mountains , and finally the Altai mountains in the narrower sense . The general height of the chain ( the Altai in its widest sense ) is about 3,000 ft . , but the highest ...
... province the Ya- blonnoi , further W. the Daurian and Sayanian mountains , and finally the Altai mountains in the narrower sense . The general height of the chain ( the Altai in its widest sense ) is about 3,000 ft . , but the highest ...
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... province of Arles . In 467 he went to Rome as ambas- sador of the Arverni , delivered a panegyric on | the reigning emperor Anthemius , was made a patrician , and governor of the city a second time , and was honored with a second statue ...
... province of Arles . In 467 he went to Rome as ambas- sador of the Arverni , delivered a panegyric on | the reigning emperor Anthemius , was made a patrician , and governor of the city a second time , and was honored with a second statue ...
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... Vicksburg , Strasburg , Metz , and Paris since the introduc- tion of gunpowder . SIEGEN , a town of Prussia , in the province of Westphalia , on the Sieg , 37 m . S. of Arns- berg ; pop . in 1871 , 11,070 . It 30 SIEGEN SIEGE.
... Vicksburg , Strasburg , Metz , and Paris since the introduc- tion of gunpowder . SIEGEN , a town of Prussia , in the province of Westphalia , on the Sieg , 37 m . S. of Arns- berg ; pop . in 1871 , 11,070 . It 30 SIEGEN SIEGE.
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Página 101 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 101 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 101 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 97 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Página 320 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state or to the persons of statesmen was in no time more penal, and...
Página 101 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 101 - ... first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemine, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St.
Página 427 - Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, &c., of the Inhabitants of England from the arrival of the Saxons till the Reign of Henry VIII.
Página 378 - The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Ebrue; with apt notes to sing them withall...
Página 97 - It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England ; and therefore the black must be discharged.