Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 8Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, James Henley Thornwell, William Gilmore Simms Wiley & Putnam, 1845 |
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... give life and spirit to its waters . No one who has entered this harbour , will ever forget the striking effect it produces upon the most sluggish nature . The beauty of the scenery , in sailing up this bay , continues unabated , - the ...
... give life and spirit to its waters . No one who has entered this harbour , will ever forget the striking effect it produces upon the most sluggish nature . The beauty of the scenery , in sailing up this bay , continues unabated , - the ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... gives particular and useful instructions for vessels sailing by this channel . On the 17th , the squadron entered Orange Harbour , where they found the Relief . Capt . Wilkes speaks in deservedly high terms of the accu- racy of the ...
... gives particular and useful instructions for vessels sailing by this channel . On the 17th , the squadron entered Orange Harbour , where they found the Relief . Capt . Wilkes speaks in deservedly high terms of the accu- racy of the ...
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... gives a rapid sketch of the events of the revolutions in Peru , which contains one continued recital of party strug- gles for power and personal aggrandizement . When the expedition was at Callao , the forces of Chile occupied Lima ...
... gives a rapid sketch of the events of the revolutions in Peru , which contains one continued recital of party strug- gles for power and personal aggrandizement . When the expedition was at Callao , the forces of Chile occupied Lima ...
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... give a preponderance to the military power in that coun- try . Of Gen. Santa Cruz we have always entertained a favorable opinion , from the accounts of many Americans who knew him well , and especially from one who was capa- ble of ...
... give a preponderance to the military power in that coun- try . Of Gen. Santa Cruz we have always entertained a favorable opinion , from the accounts of many Americans who knew him well , and especially from one who was capa- ble 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...