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... Panama Rail - way ( the ) and Gulf of Mexico . · Tablet of the Theban Cebes , the . Translated from the Greek by Rev. J. Jones Smyth . Thanatos . By Sidney Dyer . Thoughts Suggested by Powers ' Proserpine . To One Sleeping . 38 441 457 ...
... Panama Rail - way ( the ) and Gulf of Mexico . · Tablet of the Theban Cebes , the . Translated from the Greek by Rev. J. Jones Smyth . Thanatos . By Sidney Dyer . Thoughts Suggested by Powers ' Proserpine . To One Sleeping . 38 441 457 ...
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... Panama to the Chagres river , than any other of the universe . A third class , with more discrimination , ascribe our success to Lt. Col. Thayer , corps of Engineers . requiring only thirty miles of excavation , with ever the 1849. ] 39 ...
... Panama to the Chagres river , than any other of the universe . A third class , with more discrimination , ascribe our success to Lt. Col. Thayer , corps of Engineers . requiring only thirty miles of excavation , with ever the 1849. ] 39 ...
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... Panama and Tehuantepec are attended with calms , and occasionally tempests of the most terrific character , it seems hardly probable that merchants will pay high for the privilege of shortening a voyage only a few weeks . This subject ...
... Panama and Tehuantepec are attended with calms , and occasionally tempests of the most terrific character , it seems hardly probable that merchants will pay high for the privilege of shortening a voyage only a few weeks . This subject ...
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... Panama to Changhai in times myself sounding both ways , and have had China , so far from passing directly across the Pacific , would three several surveys made , and the average pass through the Gulf of Mexico and the State of Louisi ...
... Panama to Changhai in times myself sounding both ways , and have had China , so far from passing directly across the Pacific , would three several surveys made , and the average pass through the Gulf of Mexico and the State of Louisi ...
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... Panama . The distance across in a di- rect line from the head of Navy , or " Limon Bay " to Panama is rather less than 45 miles , which is about one - third the distance across Tehuantepec . The distance there in a direct line from sea ...
... Panama . The distance across in a di- rect line from the head of Navy , or " Limon Bay " to Panama is rather less than 45 miles , which is about one - third the distance across Tehuantepec . The distance there in a direct line from sea ...
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Página 118 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Página 277 - ... all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion.
Página 277 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Página 14 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 46 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Página 394 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 276 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 14 - He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Página 276 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 468 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.