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... inhabitants industrious and good sea- men . On the eastern coast is situated a town of the same name . In this island were formerly pits , which emitted fire and smoke , but have long ceased to do either . Population , 15,000 ; square ...
... inhabitants industrious and good sea- men . On the eastern coast is situated a town of the same name . In this island were formerly pits , which emitted fire and smoke , but have long ceased to do either . Population , 15,000 ; square ...
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... inhabitants . Detmold , with 2700 inhab- itants , is the capital . Public revenue , 490,000 guilders . The prince furnishes a contingent of 600 men to the German confederacy . The constitution granted by the mother of the present prince ...
... inhabitants . Detmold , with 2700 inhab- itants , is the capital . Public revenue , 490,000 guilders . The prince furnishes a contingent of 600 men to the German confederacy . The constitution granted by the mother of the present prince ...
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... inhabitants , but , at present , has not more than 200,000 , among whom are many foreigners , Negroes , Mulattoes , Creoles , and 30,000 Galicians , who come from Spanish Galicia , and serve as por- ters and water carriers , and perform ...
... inhabitants , but , at present , has not more than 200,000 , among whom are many foreigners , Negroes , Mulattoes , Creoles , and 30,000 Galicians , who come from Spanish Galicia , and serve as por- ters and water carriers , and perform ...
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... inhabitants , now forms part of Gumbinnen , in the province of East Prussia , and is fertile and well culti- vated . ( See Russia , and Poland . ) LITMUS ; a blue paste or pigment ob- tained from the lichen parellus . It is brought from ...
... inhabitants , now forms part of Gumbinnen , in the province of East Prussia , and is fertile and well culti- vated . ( See Russia , and Poland . ) LITMUS ; a blue paste or pigment ob- tained from the lichen parellus . It is brought from ...
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... inhabitants , chiefly Greeks . The name is derived from the town of Livadia ( or Lebadia ; 2000 houses and 6000 inhabitants ) . The boundary be- tween Livadia and Thessaly is formed by the mountain Eta ( on whose summit Hercules was ...
... inhabitants , chiefly Greeks . The name is derived from the town of Livadia ( or Lebadia ; 2000 houses and 6000 inhabitants ) . The boundary be- tween Livadia and Thessaly is formed by the mountain Eta ( on whose summit Hercules was ...
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Página 368 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Página 333 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Página 487 - That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the State, or States, most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his orders for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia as he shall think proper.
Página 240 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Página 309 - States, but shall so far consider himself as counsel for the prisoner, after the said prisoner shall have made his plea, as to object to any leading question to any of the witnesses, or any question to the prisoner, the answer to which might tend to criminate himself...
Página 370 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Página 427 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 75 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Página 370 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Página 345 - Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA in 1846.