Debow's Review: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and Resources, Nide 5James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J. D. B. DeBow., 1848 |
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... idea of the present actual state and condition of Florida . The peculiar outline of its coast has probably rendered its general shape and position familiar to every one - having been somewhat aptly compared to a reversed boot . It ...
... idea of the present actual state and condition of Florida . The peculiar outline of its coast has probably rendered its general shape and position familiar to every one - having been somewhat aptly compared to a reversed boot . It ...
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... idea on which the work has been constructed , is one so simple and so evidently applicable to the object sought for , as to assure us of the ultimate attainment of that great desideratum for the agriculturist , a machine that shall ...
... idea on which the work has been constructed , is one so simple and so evidently applicable to the object sought for , as to assure us of the ultimate attainment of that great desideratum for the agriculturist , a machine that shall ...
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... idea or definite meaning as a whole . Rather is it not desirable , and is it not time , that history should come forth from the chronicle , and reach its genuine form ? Precisely one of the great practical uses to which this philosophy ...
... idea or definite meaning as a whole . Rather is it not desirable , and is it not time , that history should come forth from the chronicle , and reach its genuine form ? Precisely one of the great practical uses to which this philosophy ...
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... ideas are derived from sensation and reflection ; in other words , that it is only by means of observation or experience , aided by reflection , that the mind can acquire or does acquire any knowledge whatsoever ; and of course the ...
... ideas are derived from sensation and reflection ; in other words , that it is only by means of observation or experience , aided by reflection , that the mind can acquire or does acquire any knowledge whatsoever ; and of course the ...
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... idea . Modern Europe is still con- tending for it . He had at one time in his employment three hundred factors ; and the rest of the merchants of France , with the whole of those of Italy , are not supposed to have equalled this one man ...
... idea . Modern Europe is still con- tending for it . He had at one time in his employment three hundred factors ; and the rest of the merchants of France , with the whole of those of Italy , are not supposed to have equalled this one man ...
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Sivu 272 - Now, learn a parable of the fig-tree : when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Whatever the career and the fortunes of the
Sivu 307 - their extravagances, from the third book of the Dunciad : "All sudden gorgons hiss and dragons glare And ten horned fiends and giants rush to war; Hell rises, heaven descends and dance on earth, Gods, imps and monsters, music, rage and mirth. A fire, a jig, a battle and a ball, Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
Sivu 120 - An Act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing Land Offices in the districts east of the Island of Orleans. " The first section ratified all titles and claims derived from complete Spanish grants, and complete titles emanating from the British authorities in West Florida prior to the year 1783. which had been
Sivu 345 - every plant of the ßeld before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.
Sivu 344 - [CONTINUED.] In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." He then created " the grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself, each after its kind.
Sivu 282 - us, there is a regulation that " No scholar shall take tobacco unless permitted by the President, with the consent of their parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private manner.
Sivu 310 - we have quoted, he continues: " But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks passage brings them in their own tongue, our sense, genius, and science in bales and hogsheads. Prairies,
Sivu 282 - by the President, with the consent of their parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private manner." We can't undertake to say how it is at Harvard University now,
Sivu 94 - (and this is a hint to those who think their own common sense is law.) that " nothing is law that is not reason;" a maxim, says Jones, " in theory excellent but in practice dangerous, as many rules true in the abstract are false in the concrete ; for since the
Sivu 66 - Wet with dew. • ...... Under any letter, denotes an extraordinary degree. By the combination of these letters, all the ordinary phenomena of the weather may be recorded with certainty and brevity. EXAMPLES. bcm Denotes Blue sky with detached opening clouds, but