A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various DivisionsA. Fullarton and Company, 1831 |
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... feet long , and often has 25 strings ; the other is five feet long , and has seven strings of silk , played upon by the finger , or a small stick . A two - stringed fiddle , and different sorts of guitars , rank in this class . 6. Chú ...
... feet long , and often has 25 strings ; the other is five feet long , and has seven strings of silk , played upon by the finger , or a small stick . A two - stringed fiddle , and different sorts of guitars , rank in this class . 6. Chú ...
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... feet long , and painted to look like the heads of dragons , are used by a corps called the tigers of war . Fans and umbrellas are a part of the equipment of every Chinese soldier ; and this reminds us of Voltaire's caustic answer to the ...
... feet long , and painted to look like the heads of dragons , are used by a corps called the tigers of war . Fans and umbrellas are a part of the equipment of every Chinese soldier ; and this reminds us of Voltaire's caustic answer to the ...
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... feet high , and from 10 to 20 feet broad . Little attention is paid to the guns , but the gates are constructed and guarded with care . The Chinese have also fortifications on exposed points , more , however , as a protection against ...
... feet high , and from 10 to 20 feet broad . Little attention is paid to the guns , but the gates are constructed and guarded with care . The Chinese have also fortifications on exposed points , more , however , as a protection against ...
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... feet high , 25 feet broad at the base , and 12 at the top , be- tween the parapets . Nine lofty gates crowned with turrets give ingress and egress to the inhabitants ; and a semi - circular area before each gate is inclosed by a wall of ...
... feet high , 25 feet broad at the base , and 12 at the top , be- tween the parapets . Nine lofty gates crowned with turrets give ingress and egress to the inhabitants ; and a semi - circular area before each gate is inclosed by a wall of ...
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... feet above the sea ; and by another estimate , given by father Gerbillon , at 9 Chinese lys , or 17,820 feet above the level of Pe- chilee . The ascent cost Verbiest six days ' journey , as he tells us ; and its summit is covered with ...
... feet above the sea ; and by another estimate , given by father Gerbillon , at 9 Chinese lys , or 17,820 feet above the level of Pe- chilee . The ascent cost Verbiest six days ' journey , as he tells us ; and its summit is covered with ...
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الصفحة 395 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
الصفحة 395 - ... concerned, as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECT. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on application...
الصفحة 304 - 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 303 - If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe, that the Divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others...
الصفحة 380 - 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 396 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
الصفحة 395 - ... but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Sect. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union ; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress. The Congress...
الصفحة 371 - It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters.
الصفحة 381 - America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well as of the nobler kinds, which arouse the best feelings of man, which call him into action, which substantiate his freedom, and conduct him to happiness, as of the subordinate, which serve to amuse him only. We therefore suppose, that this reproach is as unjust as it is unkind; and that, of the geniuses which adorn the present age, America contributes its full share.
الصفحة 30 - ... are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into the pond with the old fish.