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 - Geography |
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... banks populous , diversified by wooded mountains , and highly picturesque . These primary streams have numer- ous tributaries , several of which equal the greatest rivers of Europe . The Yuenho , the Hoeiho , and the Hoay - ho fall into ...
... banks populous , diversified by wooded mountains , and highly picturesque . These primary streams have numer- ous tributaries , several of which equal the greatest rivers of Europe . The Yuenho , the Hoeiho , and the Hoay - ho fall into ...
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... banks on either side , as well as those of the canals , covered with towns as far as the eye can reach ; the continuance along the canals of cities , towns , and villages , almost without interruption , the vast number of light stone ...
... banks on either side , as well as those of the canals , covered with towns as far as the eye can reach ; the continuance along the canals of cities , towns , and villages , almost without interruption , the vast number of light stone ...
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... banks of a fine navigable river , and though ranking merely as a village , is said to have a million of inhabitants . Its furnaces amount to 500 ; all its fuel and provisions are brought from a distance ; a plain indication that the ...
... banks of a fine navigable river , and though ranking merely as a village , is said to have a million of inhabitants . Its furnaces amount to 500 ; all its fuel and provisions are brought from a distance ; a plain indication that the ...
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... banks , wholly unproductive , but possessing harbours invaluable to the na- tives of Formosa who have none . " This province , lying between the Tropic of Cancer and 28 ° N. lat . , is warm but healthy , and in a very flourishing ...
... banks , wholly unproductive , but possessing harbours invaluable to the na- tives of Formosa who have none . " This province , lying between the Tropic of Cancer and 28 ° N. lat . , is warm but healthy , and in a very flourishing ...
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... banks of the Amoor , which is thickly planted with Tartar villages , the whole country seems one continuous and uninhabited forest . After pass- ing through these immense forests , fine green valleys occur , which are wa- tered by ...
... banks of the Amoor , which is thickly planted with Tartar villages , the whole country seems one continuous and uninhabited forest . After pass- ing through these immense forests , fine green valleys occur , which are wa- tered by ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.