A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar: And Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, to which are Added, I. A Geographical Index, with the Names and Places Alphabetically Arranged. II. A Table of the Coins of All Nations, and Their Value in English Money. III. A Chronological Table of Remarkable Events, from the Creation to the Present TimeG. G. and J. Robinson and J. Mawman, 1801 - 1056 Seiten |
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... subject appears more interesting than that we have chosen , and none seems capable of being handled in a manner that may render it more generally useful . The knowledge of the world , and of its inhabitants , though not the sublimest ...
... subject appears more interesting than that we have chosen , and none seems capable of being handled in a manner that may render it more generally useful . The knowledge of the world , and of its inhabitants , though not the sublimest ...
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... subjects . In the course of the present century , however , men have begun to travel from different mo- tives . A thirst for knowledge , as well as for gold , has led many into distant lands . These they have explored with a philosophic ...
... subjects . In the course of the present century , however , men have begun to travel from different mo- tives . A thirst for knowledge , as well as for gold , has led many into distant lands . These they have explored with a philosophic ...
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... subjects within the narrow bounds of this work , is the omis- sion of many immaterial circumstances , which are re- corded in other performances of the same kind , and of all those fabulous accounts or descriptions which , to the ...
... subjects within the narrow bounds of this work , is the omis- sion of many immaterial circumstances , which are re- corded in other performances of the same kind , and of all those fabulous accounts or descriptions which , to the ...
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... subjects of Great Britain . Our own country , in both respects , deserved the greatest share of our attention . Great Britain , though she cannot boast of a more luxuriant soil or happier climate than many other countries , has ...
... subjects of Great Britain . Our own country , in both respects , deserved the greatest share of our attention . Great Britain , though she cannot boast of a more luxuriant soil or happier climate than many other countries , has ...
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... subjects , some less obvious particulars , no doubt , must escape our notice . But if our general plan be good , and ... subject ; which is all indeed we can attain , until the geographical science arrives at greater perfection ...
... subjects , some less obvious particulars , no doubt , must escape our notice . But if our general plan be good , and ... subject ; which is all indeed we can attain , until the geographical science arrives at greater perfection ...
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Seite 304 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
Seite 47 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Seite 677 - of seven square enclosures, one within the other, the walls of which are 25 feet high, and 4 thick. These enclosures are 350 feet distant from one another, and each has four large gates, with a high tower, which are placed one in the middle of each side of the enclosure, and opposite to the four cardinal points. The outward wall is nearly four miles in circumference...
Seite 237 - All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Seite 239 - This petition (when founded on facts that may be in their nature disputed) is referred to a committee of members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the house ; and then (or otherwise, upon the mere petition) leave is given to bring in the bill. In public matters the bill is brought in upon motion made to the house, without any petition at all. Formerly, all bills were drawn in the form of petitions...
Seite 237 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Seite 234 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Seite 233 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Seite 138 - ... in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Seite 236 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.