Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, and Companion to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (9th Ed.) and to All Other Encyclopaedias, Volumen2J.M. Stoddart, 1884 |
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... appear in the ear . widely cultivated in temperate regions , and probably supports a larger number of human beings than any other cereal except rice . It is Millet is a general term used to designate various small , hard - seeded ...
... appear in the ear . widely cultivated in temperate regions , and probably supports a larger number of human beings than any other cereal except rice . It is Millet is a general term used to designate various small , hard - seeded ...
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... appearing among wheat . Webster notes that in searching for the deri- vation of the word chess , we have to compare it with the Persian word khas , which means any bad weed . The name as applied to this plant does not appear to be in ...
... appearing among wheat . Webster notes that in searching for the deri- vation of the word chess , we have to compare it with the Persian word khas , which means any bad weed . The name as applied to this plant does not appear to be in ...
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... appear why Bragg , when urged by his generals , did not continue the fight on the night of the 20th , when there was a brilliant moon and Thomas's tenacity had been tried to the utmost . It is difficult to characterize this battle . To ...
... appear why Bragg , when urged by his generals , did not continue the fight on the night of the 20th , when there was a brilliant moon and Thomas's tenacity had been tried to the utmost . It is difficult to characterize this battle . To ...
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... appear to be incapable of inflicting any very serious injury on vegetation , but what it lacks in individual capacity is made up by the immense numbers of insects which are occasionally developed . A myriad of tiny pumps incessantly ...
... appear to be incapable of inflicting any very serious injury on vegetation , but what it lacks in individual capacity is made up by the immense numbers of insects which are occasionally developed . A myriad of tiny pumps incessantly ...
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... appear in injurious numbers . Thus , if the year has been unusually wet and rather cool , the farmer knows that he need have no fear of them within two years , for in such a season they are reduced by the unfavorable conditions to a ...
... appear in injurious numbers . Thus , if the year has been unusually wet and rather cool , the farmer knows that he need have no fear of them within two years , for in such a season they are reduced by the unfavorable conditions to a ...
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Página 137 - Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection or influence that either may possess with any State or Government through whose territory the said canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other.
Página 137 - America ; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords, or may afford, or any alliance which either has, or may have, to or with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Página 137 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Página 329 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 210 - Register of the proper land office, have the right to enter by legal subdivisions any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon payment to the Receiver of not less than ten dollars per acre, for such lands where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not...
Página 378 - States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States...
Página 137 - Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship-canal ; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 210 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Página 330 - ... with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices...
Página 98 - As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with the one or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free.