Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 8Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, James Henley Thornwell, William Gilmore Simms Wiley & Putnam, 1845 |
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... better that slavery should or should not exist , ib ; English operatives in effect slaves , 346 ; Gov. Ham- mond's letters , ib .; objections to slavery answered , 349 ; the Afri- can greatly improved since his transfer to America , ib ...
... better that slavery should or should not exist , ib ; English operatives in effect slaves , 346 ; Gov. Ham- mond's letters , ib .; objections to slavery answered , 349 ; the Afri- can greatly improved since his transfer to America , ib ...
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... better fitted than any other officer of his rank to take charge of the scientific branch of the service , and to super- intend the surveys and observations which were directed to be made by the squadron . So impressed was he with this ...
... better fitted than any other officer of his rank to take charge of the scientific branch of the service , and to super- intend the surveys and observations which were directed to be made by the squadron . So impressed was he with this ...
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... be more frequently used , as giving a vessel a better chance of making the passage round Cape Horn quickly . VOL . VIII.-No. 15 . 2 He gives particular and useful instructions for vessels sailing by 1845. ] 13 The Exploring Expedition .
... be more frequently used , as giving a vessel a better chance of making the passage round Cape Horn quickly . VOL . VIII.-No. 15 . 2 He gives particular and useful instructions for vessels sailing by 1845. ] 13 The Exploring Expedition .
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... better success , an experiment he had made off Madeira , to measure the height and velocity of the waves . He found their apparent progressive motion twenty- six and a half miles an hour , the vessels sailing at the time at the rate of ...
... better success , an experiment he had made off Madeira , to measure the height and velocity of the waves . He found their apparent progressive motion twenty- six and a half miles an hour , the vessels sailing at the time at the rate of ...
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... better the necessity of such prompt measures . We venture to hope that the government will carry into effect the intentions of those who planned this voyage , and maintain a vessel of war constantly in these seas . The po- sition of ...
... better the necessity of such prompt measures . We venture to hope that the government will carry into effect the intentions of those who planned this voyage , and maintain a vessel of war constantly in these seas . The po- sition of ...
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Page 154 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.
Page 153 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 464 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis. 2. The arts and sciences shall be promoted in one or more seminaries of learning.
Page 486 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 154 - Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Page 374 - In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the claims of the Constitution.
Page 269 - Nothing can exceed the beauty of these waters and their safety. Not a shoal exists within the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship.
Page 255 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Page 260 - Rural Economy, in its Relations with Chemistry, Physics and Meteorology ; or Chemistry applied to Agriculture. By JB BOUSSINGAULT, Member of the Institute of France, etc., etc.
Page 372 - Amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...