An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Količina 4compiler ; H.D. Symonds and J. Ridgeway, 1799 - 510 strani |
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... bodies , by introducing fpirituous liquors among them , and habituating them to fevere courfes of drinking . They are naturally much addicted to this fatal cuftom ; but when it is encouraged and enforced by thofe who call themselves an ...
... bodies , by introducing fpirituous liquors among them , and habituating them to fevere courfes of drinking . They are naturally much addicted to this fatal cuftom ; but when it is encouraged and enforced by thofe who call themselves an ...
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... body , and lives in a future better state , which they believe will never end . But they have very different ideas ... bodies , and they imagine their flight thither fo eafy and rapid , that the foul refts the very fame evening in the ...
... body , and lives in a future better state , which they believe will never end . But they have very different ideas ... bodies , and they imagine their flight thither fo eafy and rapid , that the foul refts the very fame evening in the ...
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... body with only one arm ; while others affirm , that he is no larger than a man's finger , with many other abfurdities of a fimilar kind . They have alfo a peculiar kind of mythology , by which they believe all the elements to be full of ...
... body with only one arm ; while others affirm , that he is no larger than a man's finger , with many other abfurdities of a fimilar kind . They have alfo a peculiar kind of mythology , by which they believe all the elements to be full of ...
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... body of one man . Into this the Greenlander thrusts himself up to the waist , and faftens the skin fo tight about him that no water can enter . Thus fecured , and armed with a paddle broad at both ends , he will venture out to fea in ...
... body of one man . Into this the Greenlander thrusts himself up to the waist , and faftens the skin fo tight about him that no water can enter . Thus fecured , and armed with a paddle broad at both ends , he will venture out to fea in ...
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... bodies of ice filling the valleys between the high mountains : their face towards the fea is nearly perpendicular , and of a very lively light green colour . One was about three hundred feet high , with a cascade of water iffuing from ...
... bodies of ice filling the valleys between the high mountains : their face towards the fea is nearly perpendicular , and of a very lively light green colour . One was about three hundred feet high , with a cascade of water iffuing from ...
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Stran 28 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Stran 27 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Stran 27 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Stran 27 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Stran 27 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Stran 29 - IT is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Stran 30 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Stran 26 - In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c...
Stran 71 - And whereas it frequently happens that vessels sail for a port or place belonging to an enemy without knowing that the same is...
Stran 50 - And it is agreed, that the subjects or citizens of each of the contracting parties, their vessels or effects, shall not be liable to any embargo or detention on the part of the other, for any military expedition or other public or private purpose whatever.