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... containing the doc- tor's description of a visit to the foun- tain - head of a stream of lava during an eruption of Vesuvius . The tenth article is from the pen of a lawyer ; and is quite satisfactory as to the policy and necessity of a ...
... containing the doc- tor's description of a visit to the foun- tain - head of a stream of lava during an eruption of Vesuvius . The tenth article is from the pen of a lawyer ; and is quite satisfactory as to the policy and necessity of a ...
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... containing the request . I. MY GOOD FRIEND , -As my servant maid has always found a difficulty in getting money , let me beg you to send the stoutest , boldest , and blackest of your myrmidons to J. Walker with the inclosed . How does ...
... containing the request . I. MY GOOD FRIEND , -As my servant maid has always found a difficulty in getting money , let me beg you to send the stoutest , boldest , and blackest of your myrmidons to J. Walker with the inclosed . How does ...
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... contain two sorts of impurities , the one chemical and the other mecha- nical , ( that is to say , ) the latter being merely floating particles of bruised cane held suspended in the fluid , it is possible to effect their separation by a ...
... contain two sorts of impurities , the one chemical and the other mecha- nical , ( that is to say , ) the latter being merely floating particles of bruised cane held suspended in the fluid , it is possible to effect their separation by a ...
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... containing each six plates , the size and manner of the Liber Veritatis ; engraved by S. W. Reynolds , from drawings ... contain engravings , several of which will be accurately coloured , showing , in a particular manner , the progress ...
... containing each six plates , the size and manner of the Liber Veritatis ; engraved by S. W. Reynolds , from drawings ... contain engravings , several of which will be accurately coloured , showing , in a particular manner , the progress ...
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... containing some account of the inarine polypi that so abound in the calcareous formations of Lower Normandy . One stratum in the vicinity of Caen is almost entirely composed of them . They are in perfect conservation ; and , from the ...
... containing some account of the inarine polypi that so abound in the calcareous formations of Lower Normandy . One stratum in the vicinity of Caen is almost entirely composed of them . They are in perfect conservation ; and , from the ...
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Page 294 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 294 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 294 - Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste— taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 448 - The Life of Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, by Robert Southey, esq. Poet Laureate...
Page 294 - ... that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 57 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 467 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Page 83 - In the civil war existing between Spain and the Spanish provinces in this hemisphere, the greatest care has been taken to enforce the laws intended to preserve an impartial neutrality. Our ports have continued to be equally open to both parties, and on the same conditions ; and our citizens have been equally restrained from interfering in favor of either to the prejudice of the other.
Page 467 - ... against foreign competition, is set up as a ground of claim by other branches for similar protection ; so that if the reasoning upon which these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever.
Page 57 - ... by this act to make the said proclamation shall, among the said rioters, or as near to them as he can safely come, with a loud voice command, or cause to be commanded silence to be, while proclamation is...