Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and Fancies, Drawn from Every Land and Language, and Carefully Classified for the Ready Reference of Teachers, Students and the Family CircleWerner Company, 1893 - 480 halaman |
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... gives the area of our country , and when and how the territory was acquired : Square Miles . Territory ceded by England in 1783 . 815,615 Louisiana acquired from France in 1803 . 930.928 Florida acquired from Spain in 1821 .. 59.268 ...
... gives the area of our country , and when and how the territory was acquired : Square Miles . Territory ceded by England in 1783 . 815,615 Louisiana acquired from France in 1803 . 930.928 Florida acquired from Spain in 1821 .. 59.268 ...
Halaman 20
... give about $ 450 per year to each earner , or less than 45 cents per day for each person . But it has been reckoned that in 1880 fifty persons had an average income of $ 1,000,000 each per year ; 2,000 , $ 100,000 ; 100,000 , $ 10,000 ...
... give about $ 450 per year to each earner , or less than 45 cents per day for each person . But it has been reckoned that in 1880 fifty persons had an average income of $ 1,000,000 each per year ; 2,000 , $ 100,000 ; 100,000 , $ 10,000 ...
Halaman 25
... give 785,604 to British North America for the decade from 1881 to 1890 , and 3,826 to Mexico , making the aggregate for America 817,563 , instead of 422,848 . Mulhall estimates the number of individuals who emigrated from Europe in 72 ...
... give 785,604 to British North America for the decade from 1881 to 1890 , and 3,826 to Mexico , making the aggregate for America 817,563 , instead of 422,848 . Mulhall estimates the number of individuals who emigrated from Europe in 72 ...
Halaman 41
... give names to the days . It takes just one second of time for electricity to travel 288,000 miles . Fenelon says suggestively : " God never gives us two moments to- gether . " A vessel sailing eastwards across the Pacific has two ...
... give names to the days . It takes just one second of time for electricity to travel 288,000 miles . Fenelon says suggestively : " God never gives us two moments to- gether . " A vessel sailing eastwards across the Pacific has two ...
Halaman 58
... gives rise to more errors in speaking and writing than any other cause . When you wish to distinguish between two or more persons , say , " Which is the happy man ? " not who— “ Which of those ladies do you admire ? " " Who do you ...
... gives rise to more errors in speaking and writing than any other cause . When you wish to distinguish between two or more persons , say , " Which is the happy man ? " not who— “ Which of those ladies do you admire ? " " Who do you ...
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Halaman 278 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Halaman 349 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Halaman 458 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Halaman 268 - That any married woman may contract, and sue and be sued, in her own name, in all matters having relation to her sole and separate property in the same manner as if she were unmarried...
Halaman 278 - ... that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or state, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Halaman 457 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Halaman 277 - Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in congress ; but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Halaman 224 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Halaman 36 - An Act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an International Exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures and the products of the soil, mine and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,
Halaman 116 - So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. With that they saw a damsel going upon the lake : What damsel is that ? said Arthur. That is the Lady of the lake...