Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New YorkC. van Benthuysen., 1857 |
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... quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no bad or inaccurate measure of its progress in civilization . The rich , in the middle ages , concealed a want of cleanliness under a profusion of perfumes , a practice which , unhappily ...
... quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no bad or inaccurate measure of its progress in civilization . The rich , in the middle ages , concealed a want of cleanliness under a profusion of perfumes , a practice which , unhappily ...
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... quantity of " fine linen " would have been monopo- lized by the rich as effectually as when manufactured by hand labor in the days of Solomon . The boast of the ancient philosophers was , that their teachings formed the minds of men to ...
... quantity of " fine linen " would have been monopo- lized by the rich as effectually as when manufactured by hand labor in the days of Solomon . The boast of the ancient philosophers was , that their teachings formed the minds of men to ...
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... quantity of 226 millions of pounds , besides about twelve million gallons of molasses . The cash value of farms in 1850 was 3270 millions , value of farming implements 152 millions , value of live stock 543 millions . Of wheat , rye ...
... quantity of 226 millions of pounds , besides about twelve million gallons of molasses . The cash value of farms in 1850 was 3270 millions , value of farming implements 152 millions , value of live stock 543 millions . Of wheat , rye ...
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... quantities and fifty - two million pounds of wool . Without passing through the entire list these illustrations may serve to shew what is the rate of progress in this direction in this comparatively young country . Regarding mankind as ...
... quantities and fifty - two million pounds of wool . Without passing through the entire list these illustrations may serve to shew what is the rate of progress in this direction in this comparatively young country . Regarding mankind as ...
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... quantity to fill up those vast floors , we can appreciate the boldness of the idea which would seek such an area for the display of American fabrics . And yet this space is by no means a void . Where else could the ample proportions of ...
... quantity to fill up those vast floors , we can appreciate the boldness of the idea which would seek such an area for the display of American fabrics . And yet this space is by no means a void . Where else could the ample proportions of ...
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Página 503 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 112 - Praise ye him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord; for he commanded, and they were created.
Página 459 - ... parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons, after the...
Página 503 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Página 60 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 459 - October, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars and a half, to be recovered, with costs of suit, by any person who shall prosecute for the same, before any justice of the peace, in...
Página 60 - For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Página 31 - Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism.
Página 60 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 530 - That the globe of the earth might be supposed to be one great magnet, having four magnetical poles or points of attraction, two of them near each pole of the equator : and that in those parts of the world, which lie near any of those magnetical poles, the needle is chiefly governed thereby, the nearest pole being always predominant over the more remote.