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... American merchant : b . Brooklyn , 24 July 1850. He was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1869 and in 1869-70 traveled in Europe and the East . He entered the dry goods business with his father's firm , H. B. Claflin ...
... American merchant : b . Brooklyn , 24 July 1850. He was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1869 and in 1869-70 traveled in Europe and the East . He entered the dry goods business with his father's firm , H. B. Claflin ...
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... America . A mounted skeleton pos- sessed by Yale University is 30 feet long and stands 14 feet high . CLAP , Roger , American pioneer : b . Sal- comb , Devonshire , England , 6 April 1609 ; d . Boston , Mass . , 2 Feb. 1691. He came to ...
... America . A mounted skeleton pos- sessed by Yale University is 30 feet long and stands 14 feet high . CLAP , Roger , American pioneer : b . Sal- comb , Devonshire , England , 6 April 1609 ; d . Boston , Mass . , 2 Feb. 1691. He came to ...
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... American patriot : b . Elizabethtown , N. J. , 15 Feb. 1726 ; d . Rahway , N. J. , 15 Sept. 1794. He studied for the bar and practised in his native State with success . After serving as sheriff of Essex County , he was chosen a ...
... American patriot : b . Elizabethtown , N. J. , 15 Feb. 1726 ; d . Rahway , N. J. , 15 Sept. 1794. He studied for the bar and practised in his native State with success . After serving as sheriff of Essex County , he was chosen a ...
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... American statesman : b . Lawrenceburgh , Anderson County , Ky . , 7 March 1850. In his own biography he gives his early life : " Worked as a hired hand , clerked in a country store , edited a country newspaper and finally practised law ...
... American statesman : b . Lawrenceburgh , Anderson County , Ky . , 7 March 1850. In his own biography he gives his early life : " Worked as a hired hand , clerked in a country store , edited a country newspaper and finally practised law ...
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... American architect : b . Philadelphia , Pa . , 1822 ; d . 1902. He studied architecture under Thomas U. Walter and suc- Iceeded the latter as architect of the extension to the United States Capitol in 1865. He was a member of the ...
... American architect : b . Philadelphia , Pa . , 1822 ; d . 1902. He studied architecture under Thomas U. Walter and suc- Iceeded the latter as architect of the extension to the United States Capitol in 1865. He was a member of the ...
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Seite 259 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Seite 332 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Seite 276 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States...
Seite 269 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Seite 204 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Seite 259 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Seite 204 - The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain.
Seite 2 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Seite 268 - Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides ; in such a case the rule of law is, that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them.
Seite 361 - The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and of the militia in the service of the Union.