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Page 483
... importance . This city was built by Alexander on the western side of one of the mouths of the Nile ; this philoso- pher , who was the pupil and compa- nion of Aristotle , might be expected to 483 select a situation combining every ...
... importance . This city was built by Alexander on the western side of one of the mouths of the Nile ; this philoso- pher , who was the pupil and compa- nion of Aristotle , might be expected to 483 select a situation combining every ...
Page 487
... importance entitles it to reiterated attention . Its adop tion would signalize any mayoralty , and raise into distinction any private citizen . For the Monthly Magazine . COMMERCIAL ROUT from the CASPIAN SEA to CHIWA and BUCHARIA . HE ...
... importance entitles it to reiterated attention . Its adop tion would signalize any mayoralty , and raise into distinction any private citizen . For the Monthly Magazine . COMMERCIAL ROUT from the CASPIAN SEA to CHIWA and BUCHARIA . HE ...
Page 488
... important , as being the ren- devouz for all the caravans going from Bucharia , Chiwa to Russia , Turkey or Persia . To the left of the Chiwa , on the eastern side of lake Aral , dwell the Kara - Kalpaks , a wandering tribe , which is ...
... important , as being the ren- devouz for all the caravans going from Bucharia , Chiwa to Russia , Turkey or Persia . To the left of the Chiwa , on the eastern side of lake Aral , dwell the Kara - Kalpaks , a wandering tribe , which is ...
Page 495
... important office in volcanos ; its oxy- gen , according to them , sustains their combustion : but a very simple obser- vation will suffice to overthrow this opinion entirely . How , indeed , is it possible for the air to penetrate into ...
... important office in volcanos ; its oxy- gen , according to them , sustains their combustion : but a very simple obser- vation will suffice to overthrow this opinion entirely . How , indeed , is it possible for the air to penetrate into ...
Page 496
... important consequence , that an A great many observations have in fact been recently given to the world on the presence of this acid in the va- pouts of Vesuvius ; and , according to that excellent observer , M. Breislack , it is at ...
... important consequence , that an A great many observations have in fact been recently given to the world on the presence of this acid in the va- pouts of Vesuvius ; and , according to that excellent observer , M. Breislack , it is at ...
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Page 194 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 319 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 561 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 562 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power — submitting to injuries from none.
Page 562 - ... our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference. If we look to the comparative strength and resources of Spain, and those new governments, and their distance from each other, it must be obvious that she can never subdue them. It is still the true policy of the United States to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope that other powers will pursue...
Page 194 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page 527 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 562 - ... principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed, by force, in the internal concerns of Spain. To what extent such interposition may be carried, on the same principle, is a question in which all independent powers whose governments differ from theirs are interested, even those most remote, and surely none more so than the United States.
Page 562 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 562 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...