A New Family Encyclopedia: Or, Compendium of Universal Knowledge : Comprehending a Plain and Practical View of Those Subjects, Most Interesting to Persons, in the Ordinary Professions of LifeCharles Augustus Goodrich T. Belknap, 1835 - 468 страници |
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... Horn Distemper ; Its Treatment ; Of Udder Ill ; Of Sore Teats ; Of Lice . 3. OF SHEEP . Of Scab ; Its Remedy ; Of Staggers , or Dizziness ; Treatment ; Pin- ning , or Scouring ; Of Tick ; Cold and its consequences ; Foot Rot ; Bowel ...
... Horn Distemper ; Its Treatment ; Of Udder Ill ; Of Sore Teats ; Of Lice . 3. OF SHEEP . Of Scab ; Its Remedy ; Of Staggers , or Dizziness ; Treatment ; Pin- ning , or Scouring ; Of Tick ; Cold and its consequences ; Foot Rot ; Bowel ...
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... horns , feathers , quills , and hair of animals . As an aliment , it is highly nutritive ; it is not used as a separate article of diet , except as it exists in the white of an egg . Fibrin is the chief constituent of muscular flesh ...
... horns , feathers , quills , and hair of animals . As an aliment , it is highly nutritive ; it is not used as a separate article of diet , except as it exists in the white of an egg . Fibrin is the chief constituent of muscular flesh ...
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... horns in resisting any attack . The Giraffes , male and female , resemble each other in their exterior , in their youth . Their obtuse horns are then terminated by a knot of long hair : the female preserves this peculiarity for some ...
... horns in resisting any attack . The Giraffes , male and female , resemble each other in their exterior , in their youth . Their obtuse horns are then terminated by a knot of long hair : the female preserves this peculiarity for some ...
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... horns often rise to the height of four or five feet . The elk is shy and re- tiring . When surprised by the hunter , he gazes for a moment intense- ly upon the object of his fear , and then throwing back his lofty horns upon his neck ...
... horns often rise to the height of four or five feet . The elk is shy and re- tiring . When surprised by the hunter , he gazes for a moment intense- ly upon the object of his fear , and then throwing back his lofty horns upon his neck ...
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... horns which are annually brought into the market . ELEPHANT . " This wonderful quadruped , " says Bigland , in his Natural History , " is a native of Asia and Africa , but is most numerous in the latter . In the extensive regions which ...
... horns which are annually brought into the market . ELEPHANT . " This wonderful quadruped , " says Bigland , in his Natural History , " is a native of Asia and Africa , but is most numerous in the latter . In the extensive regions which ...
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Страница 451 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade or any other pretence whatever.
Страница 128 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Страница 453 - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Страница 378 - If you plant in the fall, cut them down as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, and before the buds begin to swell; and, if you plant in the spring, cut down as soon as you have
Страница 452 - Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Страница 208 - To give it a polish, it is put into a tub containing a quantity of bran, which is set in motion by turning a shaft that runs through its centre, and thus by means of friction it becomes perfectly bright. The pin being complete, nothing remains but to separate it from the bran, which is performed...
Страница 437 - ... the whole should protect all its parts, and that every part should pay obedience to the will of the whole; or, in other words, that the community should guard the rights of' each individual member, and that (in return for this protection) each individual should submit to the laws CHAP. of the community; without which submission of all ¿; it was impossible that protection could be certainly extended to any.
Страница 450 - He shall be at least thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this State at least five years immediately preceding his election.
Страница 120 - ... more, and that it moved at the rate of one mile in a minute, four hours, the time it continued passing, would make its whole length two hundred and forty miles. Again, supposing that each square yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yards in the whole...
Страница 120 - ... surprising. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with their dung; all the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. The marks of this desolation remain for many years on the spot; and numerous places could be pointed out where for several years after, scarce a single vegetable...