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Page 108
... Whig governor of North Carolina , declined a third term , and in 1850-52 was Secretary of the Navy , in which capacity he organized Perry's expedition to Japan . Though at first opposed to secession , he later identified his fortunes ...
... Whig governor of North Carolina , declined a third term , and in 1850-52 was Secretary of the Navy , in which capacity he organized Perry's expedition to Japan . Though at first opposed to secession , he later identified his fortunes ...
Page 132
... Whigs for the nomination for governor , and in 1834 and 1838 was elected to Congress , and in 1841 became Postmaster - General in President Har- rison's Cabinet . He sat again in Congress in 1841-42 , led the stampede of the Whig conven ...
... Whigs for the nomination for governor , and in 1834 and 1838 was elected to Congress , and in 1841 became Postmaster - General in President Har- rison's Cabinet . He sat again in Congress in 1841-42 , led the stampede of the Whig conven ...
Page 161
... Whigs . Disgusted by the Irish Rebellion and its manifold horrors , he temporarily withdrew from Parliament , but the project of a union being brought forward by Pitt , he once more obtained a seat in Parlia- ment for the purpose of ...
... Whigs . Disgusted by the Irish Rebellion and its manifold horrors , he temporarily withdrew from Parliament , but the project of a union being brought forward by Pitt , he once more obtained a seat in Parlia- ment for the purpose of ...
Page 190
... Whig aristocracy in Parliament , the expansion of England abroad in spite of the opposition of France , the consolidation of the Britannic state at home and the change of the whole 190 - GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY ( 6 )
... Whig aristocracy in Parliament , the expansion of England abroad in spite of the opposition of France , the consolidation of the Britannic state at home and the change of the whole 190 - GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY ( 6 )
Page 191
... Whigs and the Tories . The Whigs , who were the active com- mercial party , were in favor of a Protestant succession ... Whig Ministry in power . In 1784 , however , George III was successful in keeping Pitt in power notwith- standing an ...
... Whigs and the Tories . The Whigs , who were the active com- mercial party , were in favor of a Protestant succession ... Whig Ministry in power . In 1784 , however , George III was successful in keeping Pitt in power notwith- standing an ...
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Page 113 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 104 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 363 - The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night — and on the other side, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs, from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.
Page 312 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in...
Page 387 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Page 249 - It is very obvious that nothing would more conduce to the obtaining so public a good, than to make the exportation of our own manufactures, and the importation of the commodities used in the manufacturing of them, as practicable and easy as may be...
Page 13 - That the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, as established by section thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity.
Page 163 - ... that the squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.
Page 207 - After the second reading it is committed, that is, referred to a committee ; which is either selected by the house in matters of small importance, or else, upon a bill of consequence, the house resolves itself into a committee of the whole house.