The Little Giant Cyclopedia and Treasury of Ready Reference: 1,000,001 Figures and FactsHistory Company, 1889 - 488 pages |
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... contains 640 acres . A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds . Hawks can fly 150 miles in one hour . Watches were first constructed in 1476 . Chinese in United States in 1880 , 105,613 . Rome was founded by Romulus , 752 B.C. Gold was ...
... contains 640 acres . A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds . Hawks can fly 150 miles in one hour . Watches were first constructed in 1476 . Chinese in United States in 1880 , 105,613 . Rome was founded by Romulus , 752 B.C. Gold was ...
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... contained 400,000 valuable books , 47 B.C. Moscow , Russia , has the largest bell in the world , 432,000 pounds ... containing a popula- tion of 4,764,312 persons . First cotton raised in the United States was in Virginia , in 1621 ...
... contained 400,000 valuable books , 47 B.C. Moscow , Russia , has the largest bell in the world , 432,000 pounds ... containing a popula- tion of 4,764,312 persons . First cotton raised in the United States was in Virginia , in 1621 ...
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... the first wheeled carriages in France in 1559 . The largest park in the United States is Fairmount , at Phila- delphia , and contains 2,740 acres . The highest natural bridge in the world is at Rockbridge 12 GEMS OF KNOWLEDGE .
... the first wheeled carriages in France in 1559 . The largest park in the United States is Fairmount , at Phila- delphia , and contains 2,740 acres . The highest natural bridge in the world is at Rockbridge 12 GEMS OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... contains 1,400,000 volumes , 175,000 manuscripts , 300,000 maps and charts , and 150,000 coins and medals . The ... contain the remains of about 6,000,000 human beings ; those of Paris , 3,000,000 . • The quickest passage ever made ...
... contains 1,400,000 volumes , 175,000 manuscripts , 300,000 maps and charts , and 150,000 coins and medals . The ... contain the remains of about 6,000,000 human beings ; those of Paris , 3,000,000 . • The quickest passage ever made ...
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... contains 1 , - 400,000 books , 300,000 pamphlets , 175,000 manuscripts , 300,000 maps and charts , 150,000 coins and ... contained 570,000 volumes in 1886. The Mercantile Library of Philadelphia was the seventh in point of size in this ...
... contains 1 , - 400,000 books , 300,000 pamphlets , 175,000 manuscripts , 300,000 maps and charts , 150,000 coins and ... contained 570,000 volumes in 1886. The Mercantile Library of Philadelphia was the seventh in point of size in this ...
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Page 425 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 202 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 291 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 425 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 274 - States, be considered as citizens thereof; and the children of persons who now are or have been citizens of the United States shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens thereof...
Page 427 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 202 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 428 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
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Page 147 - That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.