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... climate , producing a correspondent variety of diseases , but a large proportion of soil , which , though yielding to none in fertility , imparts , in ex- change for this exuberant blessing of nature , an in- fluence to the atmosphere ...
... climate , producing a correspondent variety of diseases , but a large proportion of soil , which , though yielding to none in fertility , imparts , in ex- change for this exuberant blessing of nature , an in- fluence to the atmosphere ...
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... climate . And this objection , so far as I know , is well founded ; that being a name given to a particu- lar species of spider in Italy . But I think we have a spider in this country whose economy is somewhat similar to the de ...
... climate . And this objection , so far as I know , is well founded ; that being a name given to a particu- lar species of spider in Italy . But I think we have a spider in this country whose economy is somewhat similar to the de ...
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... climate , is another matter of nice discrimination . The due attention to the fitness of a farm for the vine or for tobacco , for cotton or for indigo , for hemp or for lumber , for grass or for bread - corn , requires much judgment and ...
... climate , is another matter of nice discrimination . The due attention to the fitness of a farm for the vine or for tobacco , for cotton or for indigo , for hemp or for lumber , for grass or for bread - corn , requires much judgment and ...
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... climates , and even those which are mo- derately warm , do not furnish us with any instances of very large - leaved trees . It does seem , that the magnitude of the leaves of certain species of trees increases as we approach the line ...
... climates , and even those which are mo- derately warm , do not furnish us with any instances of very large - leaved trees . It does seem , that the magnitude of the leaves of certain species of trees increases as we approach the line ...
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... climates such capacious leaves , the Author of the universe had consulted the health , the comforts , and the pleasures of the human inhabitants , des- tined to live beneath the scorching rays of the sun ? But man is not the only animal ...
... climates such capacious leaves , the Author of the universe had consulted the health , the comforts , and the pleasures of the human inhabitants , des- tined to live beneath the scorching rays of the sun ? But man is not the only animal ...
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Page iii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 392 - His catholic majesty promises and engages on his part, to cede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to his royal highness, the Duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page iii - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, bat to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 432 - About eight o'clock he desired to have three pamphlets which had been looked out by his directions the evening before. He then dictated as clearly and distinctly as he had ever done in his life, the additions and alterations which he wished to have made in each.
Page 79 - Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of sea-banks and sea-walls, and the cleansing of rivers, public streams, ditches, and other conduits whereby any waters are carried off: and is confined to such county, or particular district, as the commission shall expressly name.
Page 432 - We shall all meet finally: we only require different degrees of discipline, suited to our different tempers, to prepare us for final happiness.
Page 48 - Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 432 - About half an hour after he desired that he might be removed to a cot. About ten minutes after he was removed to it he died; but breathed his last so easily, that those who were sitting close to him did not immediately perceive it. He had put his hand to his face, which prevented them from observing it.
Page 391 - Louisiana, westwardly of the Mississippi, though very extensive, are at present involved in some obscurity. Data are equally wanting to assign with precision its northern extent. From the source of the Mississippi, it is bounded eastwardly by the middle of the channel of that river to the thirty-first degree of latitude : thence it is asserted upon very strong grounds that according to its limits, when formerly possessed by France, it stretches to the east, as far, at least, as the river Perdigo,...
Page 377 - Indeed, every mechanic art, in the different processes of which heat, moisture, solution, mixture, or fermentation are necessary, must ever keep pace in improvement with this branch of philosophy. To the physician this science is of still greater value, and is daily growing in importance. He learns from it to compound his medicines; to disarm poisons of their force; to adjust remedies to diseases; and to adopt the general means of preserving health.