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... ground by honest toil , guided by the lights of experience and science , it is an interesting question , to every Ameri- ean , What are the conditions of a still grander progress and prosperity ? The essential conditions , it seems to ...
... ground by honest toil , guided by the lights of experience and science , it is an interesting question , to every Ameri- ean , What are the conditions of a still grander progress and prosperity ? The essential conditions , it seems to ...
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... ground floor being covered with galleries supported by handsome bronzed pillars . The style of the interior architecture is light and graceful ; the deco- rations tasteful and highly pleasing . In addition to this main portion , which ...
... ground floor being covered with galleries supported by handsome bronzed pillars . The style of the interior architecture is light and graceful ; the deco- rations tasteful and highly pleasing . In addition to this main portion , which ...
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... ground floor alone , of the eastern half wherein we stand , a space whose area - including the castern annex , which , as we still look westward down the nave , stretches away to our right - is not less than 18,000 square rods . Well ...
... ground floor alone , of the eastern half wherein we stand , a space whose area - including the castern annex , which , as we still look westward down the nave , stretches away to our right - is not less than 18,000 square rods . Well ...
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... ground for feeding purposes it is found to be a superior article for fattening hogs , and also for feeding horses , milch cows , and poultry . It is less liable to the attacks of insects than wheat , and is regarded as a safe crop . The ...
... ground for feeding purposes it is found to be a superior article for fattening hogs , and also for feeding horses , milch cows , and poultry . It is less liable to the attacks of insects than wheat , and is regarded as a safe crop . The ...
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... ground is usually ground in a wooden mill , which does not cost one hundred dollars , ( generally the work of the farmer himself , ) while the juice is boiled in the common utensils of his kitchen , or , at best , as the New England ...
... ground is usually ground in a wooden mill , which does not cost one hundred dollars , ( generally the work of the farmer himself , ) while the juice is boiled in the common utensils of his kitchen , or , at best , as the New England ...
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Page liii - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 71 - I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands ; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
Page liv - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page liii - Commissioner and the chief clerk shall also, before entering upon their duties, severally give bonds with sureties to the Treasurer of the United States, the former in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and the latter in the sum of five thousand dollars...
Page liii - Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence and by practical and scientific experiments, (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power...
Page liii - Congress, in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming parts of or accompanying his report, which report shall also contain an account of all moneys received and expended by him. He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.
Page 547 - Have we not at the South, as well as the North, grown great, prosperous and happy under its operation? Has any part of the world ever shown such rapid progress in the development of wealth, and all the material resources of national power and greatness, as the Southern States have under the General Government, notwithstanding all its defects?
Page 275 - Manufacture, and I myself have seen Serge made upon Long Island that any man may wear. Now, if they begin to make Serge, they will, in time, make coarse Cloth, and then fine ; we have as good fullers...
Page 225 - Instances are sufficiently common among the lower animals where the offspring exhibit more or less distinctly, over and beyond the characters of the male by which they were begotten, the peculiarities also of a male by which their mother at some former period had been impregnated. * * * Great difficulty has been felt by physiological writers in regard to the proper explanation of this kind of phenomena. They have been ascribed by...
Page 432 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.