The Western Journal, Volume 7M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1851 |
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... passes , ( with one exception ) without materially affecting its merits as a great highway . To enable you to appreciate the merits of the several lines , I have prepared the accompanying table , marked C. with the elements of the three ...
... passes , ( with one exception ) without materially affecting its merits as a great highway . To enable you to appreciate the merits of the several lines , I have prepared the accompanying table , marked C. with the elements of the three ...
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... passes through a country sparsely settled , with- out any great natural resources other than the fertility of the soil , the products of which will be equally ... pass over the coal region , so that the 16 Ohio and Mississippi Railroad .
... passes through a country sparsely settled , with- out any great natural resources other than the fertility of the soil , the products of which will be equally ... pass over the coal region , so that the 16 Ohio and Mississippi Railroad .
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three pass over the coal region , so that the question of location . depends entirely upon other than local interests . Your line will connect the two great commercial and money capitals of the Mis- sissippi basin ; it will , therefore ...
three pass over the coal region , so that the question of location . depends entirely upon other than local interests . Your line will connect the two great commercial and money capitals of the Mis- sissippi basin ; it will , therefore ...
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... pass accross to the city . The numerous improvements made by Mr. C. Ellet and J. L. Roebling in suspen- sion bridges , has made it perfectly practicable , and all that is re- quired to carry it out successfully , is the funds ; in fact ...
... pass accross to the city . The numerous improvements made by Mr. C. Ellet and J. L. Roebling in suspen- sion bridges , has made it perfectly practicable , and all that is re- quired to carry it out successfully , is the funds ; in fact ...
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... passing beyond the head of the Washita we found the plains approached and continued near the Canadian ; consequently all the streams flowing into it were short and small , thereby affording water sufficient for the traveller's purpose ...
... passing beyond the head of the Washita we found the plains approached and continued near the Canadian ; consequently all the streams flowing into it were short and small , thereby affording water sufficient for the traveller's purpose ...
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Page 414 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 136 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 339 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 119 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 194 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 198 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 276 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 344 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 195 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 276 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.