Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 8Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, James Henley Thornwell, William Gilmore Simms Wiley & Putnam, 1845 |
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... thousand feet high , the upper part covered , and the vallies filled with snow . On the 2d , they made O'Brien and Apsland's Islands , and got a sight of Bridgman's Island , but were compelled to abandon its examination , by a dense fog ...
... thousand feet high , the upper part covered , and the vallies filled with snow . On the 2d , they made O'Brien and Apsland's Islands , and got a sight of Bridgman's Island , but were compelled to abandon its examination , by a dense fog ...
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... thousand . Santiago , the capital , contains sixty thousand inhabitants , and is represented to be fast improving in wealth and population . It possesses a national college and military academy , with several private seminaries of ...
... thousand . Santiago , the capital , contains sixty thousand inhabitants , and is represented to be fast improving in wealth and population . It possesses a national college and military academy , with several private seminaries of ...
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... thousand men ; and the militia force , extremely well organized , to forty - five thousand , consisting of a due proportion of artillery , cavalry and infantry . The author regrets the want of correct information re- specting the first ...
... thousand men ; and the militia force , extremely well organized , to forty - five thousand , consisting of a due proportion of artillery , cavalry and infantry . The author regrets the want of correct information re- specting the first ...
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... thousand ; and the whole together , ten thousand . On approaching Tahiti , the author was disappointed at the appearance of the island from the sea . He looked in vain for the verdant groves , which other navigators have painted in such ...
... thousand ; and the whole together , ten thousand . On approaching Tahiti , the author was disappointed at the appearance of the island from the sea . He looked in vain for the verdant groves , which other navigators have painted in such ...
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... thousand as the present number of inhabitants of Ta- hiti , and one thousand as that of Eimeo . The missionaries suppose the population to have been stationary for the last thirty years ! The cultivation of the island , too , has under ...
... thousand as the present number of inhabitants of Ta- hiti , and one thousand as that of Eimeo . The missionaries suppose the population to have been stationary for the last thirty years ! The cultivation of the island , too , has under ...
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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...