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Strana 6
... side , and of civil war on the other , and endeavor to show under what circumstances it was better to endure the one or to hazard the other ; but it could not lay down any gen- eral rule but the vague one already given . The character ...
... side , and of civil war on the other , and endeavor to show under what circumstances it was better to endure the one or to hazard the other ; but it could not lay down any gen- eral rule but the vague one already given . The character ...
Strana 16
... side ; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble arch- itecture of the middle ages ; whose banks present every variety of wild and pictur- esque rocks , thick forests , fertile plains , vineyards sometimes gently ...
... side ; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble arch- itecture of the middle ages ; whose banks present every variety of wild and pictur- esque rocks , thick forests , fertile plains , vineyards sometimes gently ...
Strana 23
... sides of the chest . Their number is generally twelve on each side ; but , in some subjects , it has been found to be thirteen , and in oth- ers , though more rarely , only eleven . They are distinguished into true and false ribs . The ...
... sides of the chest . Their number is generally twelve on each side ; but , in some subjects , it has been found to be thirteen , and in oth- ers , though more rarely , only eleven . They are distinguished into true and false ribs . The ...
Strana 34
... side of James river , between fifty and sixty miles above City Point , and 150 miles above the mouth of the river . It is at the head of tide - water , just below the fails , and opposite to Manchester , with which it is connected by ...
... side of James river , between fifty and sixty miles above City Point , and 150 miles above the mouth of the river . It is at the head of tide - water , just below the fails , and opposite to Manchester , with which it is connected by ...
Strana 36
... side of lake Erie , for 120 miles . The ridge road of New York is one of the best roads in the state . ( See New York . ) RIDING . ( See Horsemanship , and Ma- nege . ) RIDING AT ANCHOR . ( See Anchor . ) RIDINGS ( Corrupted from ...
... side of lake Erie , for 120 miles . The ridge road of New York is one of the best roads in the state . ( See New York . ) RIDING . ( See Horsemanship , and Ma- nege . ) RIDING AT ANCHOR . ( See Anchor . ) RIDINGS ( Corrupted from ...
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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...