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Strana 16
... miles , affords 630 miles of uninter- rupted navigation , from Bàsle to the sca , and enables the inhabitants of its banks to exchange the rich and various products of its shores ; whose cities , famous for com- merce , science , and ...
... miles , affords 630 miles of uninter- rupted navigation , from Bàsle to the sca , and enables the inhabitants of its banks to exchange the rich and various products of its shores ; whose cities , famous for com- merce , science , and ...
Strana 17
... miles , about 3000 . RHINE , DEPARTMENTS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER . ( See Department . ) RHINE , CONFEDERATION OF . ( See Con- federation of the Rhine . ) RHINE , LOWER ( in German , Niederrhein ) , a Prussian province , with the title of ...
... miles , about 3000 . RHINE , DEPARTMENTS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER . ( See Department . ) RHINE , CONFEDERATION OF . ( See Con- federation of the Rhine . ) RHINE , LOWER ( in German , Niederrhein ) , a Prussian province , with the title of ...
Strana 18
... miles ; breadth 29 ; square miles 1350 ; population in 1810 , 76,931 ; in 1820 , 83,059 , including 48 slaves ; in 1830 , 97,212 , including 14 slaves ; lat . 41 ° 22 ′ to 42 ° 3 ′ N .; lon . 71 ° 6 ' to 71 ° 38 ′ W. In the north - west ...
... miles ; breadth 29 ; square miles 1350 ; population in 1810 , 76,931 ; in 1820 , 83,059 , including 48 slaves ; in 1830 , 97,212 , including 14 slaves ; lat . 41 ° 22 ′ to 42 ° 3 ′ N .; lon . 71 ° 6 ' to 71 ° 38 ′ W. In the north - west ...
Strana 19
... miles from the southern coast of Asia Minor ; thirty - six miles in length , and fourteen in breadth ; 450 square miles . Rhodes was , in an- cient times , sacred to the sun , and was celebrated for its serene sky , its soft cli- mate ...
... miles from the southern coast of Asia Minor ; thirty - six miles in length , and fourteen in breadth ; 450 square miles . Rhodes was , in an- cient times , sacred to the sun , and was celebrated for its serene sky , its soft cli- mate ...
Strana 20
... miles from the source of the Rhine . I flows in a western direction through a long and wide valley of the Swiss canton of the Valais , and , being swelled by a number of mountain streams , it passes through the lake of Geneva . Flowing ...
... miles from the source of the Rhine . I flows in a western direction through a long and wide valley of the Swiss canton of the Valais , and , being swelled by a number of mountain streams , it passes through the lake of Geneva . Flowing ...
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Strana 433 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 189 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Strana 40 - ... a tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Strana 48 - THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA ; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Strana 457 - Socage, in its most general and extensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by our ancient writers constantly put in opposition to chivalry, or knight-service, where the render was precarious and uncertain. Thus Bracton (a) ; if a man holds by rent in money, without any escuage or serjeanty, " id tenementum did potest socagium...
Strana 416 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to approach nearer to his offence.
Strana 350 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
Strana 433 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 391 - Blunt — Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily...
Strana 435 - On looking into the places where they had been crammed, there were found some children next the sides of the ship, in the places...