DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources, Volume 2J. D. B. De Bow, 1855 |
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Halaman 23
... feet depth of water over said bar . At present it is seven feet ; which has been gradually increasing , from an average depth of five to seven feet , since the communication of the waters of Gal- veston bay and Oyster creek with the ...
... feet depth of water over said bar . At present it is seven feet ; which has been gradually increasing , from an average depth of five to seven feet , since the communication of the waters of Gal- veston bay and Oyster creek with the ...
Halaman 24
... feet water , ( there being in the river more than thirty feet head water . ) This improvement would render the inner harbor of Velasco more than equal to all the requisites necessary for a great naval depot . We will now take an ...
... feet water , ( there being in the river more than thirty feet head water . ) This improvement would render the inner harbor of Velasco more than equal to all the requisites necessary for a great naval depot . We will now take an ...
Halaman 27
... feet depth of water can be taken over the bar at a cost hardly worth estimating , compared with the importance of the work in a national point of view . We have also the materials ( live oak and exhaustless banks of sand ) for the ...
... feet depth of water can be taken over the bar at a cost hardly worth estimating , compared with the importance of the work in a national point of view . We have also the materials ( live oak and exhaustless banks of sand ) for the ...
Halaman 52
... feet above the level of the ocean . The surface of the State is every where undulating ; not hilly , much less mountainous . Its average level below latitude 46 ° is about 250 feet above Lake Michigan ; seldom falling so low as 100 feet ...
... feet above the level of the ocean . The surface of the State is every where undulating ; not hilly , much less mountainous . Its average level below latitude 46 ° is about 250 feet above Lake Michigan ; seldom falling so low as 100 feet ...
Halaman 77
... feet . Lieutenant Berryman found none at 39,000 feet . Lieutenant Parker , of the frigate Congress , saw a line 50,000 feet run out with the same result . Mr. Brooke , of the navy , has added a contrivance by which specimens of the ...
... feet . Lieutenant Berryman found none at 39,000 feet . Lieutenant Parker , of the frigate Congress , saw a line 50,000 feet run out with the same result . Mr. Brooke , of the navy , has added a contrivance by which specimens of the ...
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Halaman 370 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Halaman 554 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God...
Halaman 616 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good ; here stands the man ; good. If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that : but if the. water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself ; argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
Halaman 603 - The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race.
Halaman 508 - It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press...
Halaman 625 - ... my slenderer and younger taper imbibed its borrowed light from the more matured and redundant fountain of yours. Yes, my lord, we can remember those nights without any other regret than that they can never more return; for, " We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine...
Halaman 501 - Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of Parliament, as speaker of this right honourable house, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience...
Halaman 580 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Halaman 505 - he was one of those divine men who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.
Halaman 102 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.