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... matter resembling oil , and which the neighbor- ing inhabitants collect and use in oint- ments and other medicinal preparations . The vapour arising from this well is in- flammable , and has been known to hang in a lambent state over ...
... matter resembling oil , and which the neighbor- ing inhabitants collect and use in oint- ments and other medicinal preparations . The vapour arising from this well is in- flammable , and has been known to hang in a lambent state over ...
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... matters for the same com- pany . Upon the purchase of the main line of state improvements by the Pennsylvania Railroad company , he was appointed resi- dent engineer of the railroad between Philadelphia and Columbia , and entered upon ...
... matters for the same com- pany . Upon the purchase of the main line of state improvements by the Pennsylvania Railroad company , he was appointed resi- dent engineer of the railroad between Philadelphia and Columbia , and entered upon ...
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... matter is simple and perspicuous enough . He says that the compromise of 1850 was established on the theory of no constitutional restriction in the common domain ; that this principle was the cardinal feature of the adjust- ment , and ...
... matter is simple and perspicuous enough . He says that the compromise of 1850 was established on the theory of no constitutional restriction in the common domain ; that this principle was the cardinal feature of the adjust- ment , and ...
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... matter is somewhat in doubt . about one point there is no uncertainty- with the Missouri Compromise out of the way , he thought that Kansas would fall an easy prey to the south . But In the sequel both sides were surprised . The hopes ...
... matter is somewhat in doubt . about one point there is no uncertainty- with the Missouri Compromise out of the way , he thought that Kansas would fall an easy prey to the south . But In the sequel both sides were surprised . The hopes ...
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... matter when he said in a speech on the seventh of March , 1856 , " My people . . . were roused to an indignation that knew no bounds . " In this grave emergency something must be done . The situation was sufficiently embarrassing for ...
... matter when he said in a speech on the seventh of March , 1856 , " My people . . . were roused to an indignation that knew no bounds . " In this grave emergency something must be done . The situation was sufficiently embarrassing for ...
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Página 220 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Página 6 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Página 505 - ... party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests ; so, on another, that the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality ; and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Página 217 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Página 247 - ... to be determined by a meridian line to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
Página 248 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Página 505 - Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good...
Página 505 - ... the light in which I contemplated my duty, required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed. And being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline, as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department...
Página 505 - To the preceding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will, therefore, be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I comtemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation.