The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A million of facts [The book of facts, by Samuel L. Knapp, William C. Redfield, and othersC.C. Childs, 1850 |
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... HISTOR NEW YORK : 1835 PUBLISHED BY C. C. CHILDS . C. CHILDS . SCONSIN . JARED W. BELL , 178 FULTON STREET , GENERAL AGENT FOR THE WORK . Entered according to an Act of Congress , in the 1850 . + New and Revised Edition. ...
... HISTOR NEW YORK : 1835 PUBLISHED BY C. C. CHILDS . C. CHILDS . SCONSIN . JARED W. BELL , 178 FULTON STREET , GENERAL AGENT FOR THE WORK . Entered according to an Act of Congress , in the 1850 . + New and Revised Edition. ...
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Entered according to an Act of Congress , in the year 1850 , by CASPER C. CHILDS , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , for the Southern District of New York . T78 3 PREFACE TO MILLION MILLION OF FACTS . THIS.
Entered according to an Act of Congress , in the year 1850 , by CASPER C. CHILDS , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , for the Southern District of New York . T78 3 PREFACE TO MILLION MILLION OF FACTS . THIS.
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... entering Cancer ; that of Michael | The Council of Nice on entering Libra ; and that of Jesus on entering Capricorn , being the four cardinal points . So they fixed the other saints ' days on the day the sun entered the other signs ; St ...
... entering Cancer ; that of Michael | The Council of Nice on entering Libra ; and that of Jesus on entering Capricorn , being the four cardinal points . So they fixed the other saints ' days on the day the sun entered the other signs ; St ...
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... entering the 100000 tons in 1828 , at a declared va- fre may often be heard for miles.lue of only 12268201 . The object of all such contrivances In 1740 , according to Marshall , is to keep up a supply of oxygen gas , the pig iron was ...
... entering the 100000 tons in 1828 , at a declared va- fre may often be heard for miles.lue of only 12268201 . The object of all such contrivances In 1740 , according to Marshall , is to keep up a supply of oxygen gas , the pig iron was ...
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... entered an oven at 500 ° . But all metal acquired the full heat ; water boiled , & c . Fish too actually live in hot baths up to 158 ° . Trees also grew in a bath at 174 ° ; flowers , near a volcano at 210 ° ; water plants are found in ...
... entered an oven at 500 ° . But all metal acquired the full heat ; water boiled , & c . Fish too actually live in hot baths up to 158 ° . Trees also grew in a bath at 174 ° ; flowers , near a volcano at 210 ° ; water plants are found in ...
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Page 97 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 162 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 257 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 282 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 97 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 30 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 312 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 282 - For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
Page 284 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 154 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.