A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, المجلد 5A. Fullarton & Company, 1832 |
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... observe birds ( the leutse or cormorant ) catching fish ; and men in the water , with jars on their heads , fishing for birds . He will see shoals of ducks issuing from floating habitations , obedient to the sound of a whistle ; carts ...
... observe birds ( the leutse or cormorant ) catching fish ; and men in the water , with jars on their heads , fishing for birds . He will see shoals of ducks issuing from floating habitations , obedient to the sound of a whistle ; carts ...
الصفحة 20
... observed on the road old men and young women travelling in wheelbarrows , sometimes in litters or chairs carried by a couple of asses , one being fixed between the poles before and one behind . The rivers were without bridges , and ...
... observed on the road old men and young women travelling in wheelbarrows , sometimes in litters or chairs carried by a couple of asses , one being fixed between the poles before and one behind . The rivers were without bridges , and ...
الصفحة 28
... observed as at first . The first part of the entertainment is concluded with tea . After tea , the guests retire to another hall , or to a garden , till the dessert be in- troduced , which , like the dinner , consists of twenty - four ...
... observed as at first . The first part of the entertainment is concluded with tea . After tea , the guests retire to another hall , or to a garden , till the dessert be in- troduced , which , like the dinner , consists of twenty - four ...
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... observed , that we seldom see foreign nations either fully or fairly , and scarcely ever con- sider what we do see without prejudice or partiality : novelty is sure either to magnify or diminish the objects with which it is associated ...
... observed , that we seldom see foreign nations either fully or fairly , and scarcely ever con- sider what we do see without prejudice or partiality : novelty is sure either to magnify or diminish the objects with which it is associated ...
الصفحة 36
... observe five precepts , viz . to kill no living creature , to take nothing that belongs to another , —to commit no act of impurity , ―to utter no falsehood , —and to drink no wine . The practice of these duties is enforced by ...
... observe five precepts , viz . to kill no living creature , to take nothing that belongs to another , —to commit no act of impurity , ―to utter no falsehood , —and to drink no wine . The practice of these duties is enforced by ...
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الصفحة 359 - The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
الصفحة 289 - ... of success in any mode of contest where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and Impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms.
الصفحة 362 - ... first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by...
الصفحة 368 - ... offices, which are to be held by appointment of the governor, or the governor and council, or the senate, or the house of representatives, or by the election of the people of the state at large, or of the people of any county, military offices, and the offices of justices of the peace excepted, shall be held by one person. No person holding the office of judge of the supreme judicial court — secretary — attorney-general — solicitorgeneral — treasurer or receiver-general — judge of probate...
الصفحة 362 - After the first enumeration, required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number...
الصفحة 289 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms.
الصفحة 352 - When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes it has proceeded, that the other countries of Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed any name in the roll of poets...
الصفحة 331 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
الصفحة 323 - Since our arrival at the Falls we have repeatedly heard a strange noise coming from the mountains in a direction a little to the north of west. It is heard at different periods of the day and night, sometimes when the air is perfectly still and without a cloud, and consists of one stroke only, or of five or six discharges in quick succession. It is loud, and resembles precisely the sound of a six-pound piece of ordnance at the distance of three miles.
الصفحة 362 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.