Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 1Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1832 - Railroad engineering |
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... less expanse of the Heavens , -to trace out the path of paying the public debt , while they oppose the laws the planets , and to comprehend the fixed law of good health . by which alone the object has been or could be ac- their ...
... less expanse of the Heavens , -to trace out the path of paying the public debt , while they oppose the laws the planets , and to comprehend the fixed law of good health . by which alone the object has been or could be ac- their ...
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... less a sum still flatters the disaffected part of the lower orders London , Nov. 5. - One holder of what was said to documents in question . His Lordship observed , their names being to the with overweening notions of their own strength ...
... less a sum still flatters the disaffected part of the lower orders London , Nov. 5. - One holder of what was said to documents in question . His Lordship observed , their names being to the with overweening notions of their own strength ...
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... less in every individual : but they are To such an extreme did it oppress him , that , accord- thirty years . Mary's short and unquiet reign did often combined in very unequal proportions . A high ing to his own declaration , a public ...
... less in every individual : but they are To such an extreme did it oppress him , that , accord- thirty years . Mary's short and unquiet reign did often combined in very unequal proportions . A high ing to his own declaration , a public ...
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... less than fifteen miles , and the advantages which her geographical position the balance not taken up . The following is the letter they are now actively engaged in making the road gives her in relation to the vast and rapidly increas ...
... less than fifteen miles , and the advantages which her geographical position the balance not taken up . The following is the letter they are now actively engaged in making the road gives her in relation to the vast and rapidly increas ...
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... less than forty thousand The charm which the Quarterly especially insists equally keen and broad ; the sympathy with human persons ; spirited charging of cavalry ; firing of on , is " in the philosophical reflections on Johnson's ...
... less than forty thousand The charm which the Quarterly especially insists equally keen and broad ; the sympathy with human persons ; spirited charging of cavalry ; firing of on , is " in the philosophical reflections on Johnson's ...
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Page 169 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 122 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 168 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 169 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice...
Page 14 - He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had .been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention continually...
Page 122 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it.
Page 169 - ... to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he did not give up to party what was meant for mankind. The consequence is, that his fame is as durable as his principles, as lasting as truth and virtue themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again, like thin...
Page 114 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 153 - ... of the war, and to frustrate the best concerted plans ; and that the discouragement occasioned by the complicated difficulties and embarrassments, in which our affairs were by this means involved, would have long ago produced the dissolution of any army, less patient, less virtuous, and less persevering, than that which I have had the honor to command.
Page 153 - States ; that the inefficacy of measures arising from the want of an adequate authority in the supreme power, from a partial compliance with the requisitions of Congress in some of the States, and from a failure of punctuality in others...