A New Family Encyclopedia, Or, Compendium of Universal Knowledge: Comprehending a Plain and Practical View of Those Subjects Most Interesting to Persons in the Ordinary Professions of Life : Illustrated by Numerous EngravingsCharles Augustus Goodrich T. Belknap, 1833 - 468 páginas |
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... hundred are contained in a pod , shaped like a cucumber , and very different from the cocoa nut , with which it is apt to be confounded , from the similarity of pronunciation . The drink prepared from the cake is also called chocolate ...
... hundred are contained in a pod , shaped like a cucumber , and very different from the cocoa nut , with which it is apt to be confounded , from the similarity of pronunciation . The drink prepared from the cake is also called chocolate ...
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... hundred and sixty , to one hundred and eighty pounds . But reckoning the weight of a cluster only at forty pounds , such a plantation would . produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance . M. Humboldt calculates that as ...
... hundred and sixty , to one hundred and eighty pounds . But reckoning the weight of a cluster only at forty pounds , such a plantation would . produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance . M. Humboldt calculates that as ...
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... hundred tons , paying a duty of eight guineas per ton . The ALMOND is a fruit inclosed in a thick stone , and under a thin skin . The tree that produces the almond is pretty tall , and resembles a peach tree . It is frequent in Germany ...
... hundred tons , paying a duty of eight guineas per ton . The ALMOND is a fruit inclosed in a thick stone , and under a thin skin . The tree that produces the almond is pretty tall , and resembles a peach tree . It is frequent in Germany ...
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... hundred pounds of sago . A single acre of land , it is said , will support 435 sago palms , which will annually produce 120,500 lbs . of sago . There is scarcely any part of the true date tree , which is not service . able to man ...
... hundred pounds of sago . A single acre of land , it is said , will support 435 sago palms , which will annually produce 120,500 lbs . of sago . There is scarcely any part of the true date tree , which is not service . able to man ...
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... hundred varieties of plums . The origin of one kind , the Washington , which in richness of flavor , beauty , and oth- er good qualities , is perhaps not surpassed by any , is too curious to be omitted . The parent tree was purchased in ...
... hundred varieties of plums . The origin of one kind , the Washington , which in richness of flavor , beauty , and oth- er good qualities , is perhaps not surpassed by any , is too curious to be omitted . The parent tree was purchased in ...
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Página 130 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 455 - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Página 380 - Planting should be undertaken as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, the...
Página 455 - 2. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the...
Página 440 - I mean of wisdom, of goodness, and of power: wisdom, to discern the real interest of the community ; goodness, to endeavour always to pursue that real interest ; and strength, or power, to carry this knowledge and intention into action.
Página 448 - ... who for twelve months next preceding has been a housekeeper and head of a family within the county, city, town, borough, or election district where he may offer to vote, and shall have been assessed with a part of the revenue of the commonwealth within the preceding year, and actually paid the same...
Página 122 - ... a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks, and load their horses with them. By the Indians, a pigeon roost or breeding- place is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion.
Página 452 - He shall be at least thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this State at least five years immediately preceding his election.
Página 122 - ... have been much more, and that it moved at the rate of one mile in a minute, four hours, the time it continued passing, would make its whole length two hundred and forty miles. Again, supposing that each square yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yards in the whole...
Página 130 - By a sparingness in diet, and eating as much as may be, what is light and easy of digestion, I shall doubtless be able to think more clearly, and shall gain time; 1.