The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 7Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... miles below Chattanooga , continued over the Sand Mountains , and ascended the Lookout range - all bold mountains with palisaded sum- mits crossed only by very difficult and widely separated mountain trails . When Rosecrans ' columns ...
... miles below Chattanooga , continued over the Sand Mountains , and ascended the Lookout range - all bold mountains with palisaded sum- mits crossed only by very difficult and widely separated mountain trails . When Rosecrans ' columns ...
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... miles long , seven wide and comprising an area of about 34,927 acres or 55 square miles . Its great- est length is 10 miles from north to south , and is nine miles broad from east to west . It lies on the north side of the Forth , by ...
... miles long , seven wide and comprising an area of about 34,927 acres or 55 square miles . Its great- est length is 10 miles from north to south , and is nine miles broad from east to west . It lies on the north side of the Forth , by ...
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... miles east of Los Angeles . This is the centre of a large fruit growing and raisin making region , and large crops of oranges and lemons are raised here . It is the seat of Po- mona College , a Congregational institution , founded in ...
... miles east of Los Angeles . This is the centre of a large fruit growing and raisin making region , and large crops of oranges and lemons are raised here . It is the seat of Po- mona College , a Congregational institution , founded in ...
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... miles through a fertile valley into Shoal Bay , New South Wales . It is navigable for 50 miles , to Grafton for ves- sels of 10 feet draught , and small steamers ply to Moleville , 30 miles farther up . It has a bar at its mouth where ...
... miles through a fertile valley into Shoal Bay , New South Wales . It is navigable for 50 miles , to Grafton for ves- sels of 10 feet draught , and small steamers ply to Moleville , 30 miles farther up . It has a bar at its mouth where ...
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... miles southeast of Council Bluffs and the Chicago , B. and Q. Railroad , and is 45 miles east of the Missouri River . It is surrounded by an agricultural and stock - raising country and contains carriage factories , brick works , flour ...
... miles southeast of Council Bluffs and the Chicago , B. and Q. Railroad , and is 45 miles east of the Missouri River . It is surrounded by an agricultural and stock - raising country and contains carriage factories , brick works , flour ...
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Stran 261 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Stran 278 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States...
Stran 271 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Stran 206 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Stran 261 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Stran 206 - The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain.
Stran 270 - Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides ; in such a case the rule of law is, that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them.
Stran 4 - When they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office ; if they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
Stran 1 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...