The Current Encyclopedia: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, Volume 2Modern Research Society, 1902 |
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Page 824
... colonies or captaincies were established . Says Watson in his " Spanish and Portuguese America , " Vol . I. , p . 161 : " The history of the early Portu- guese in Brazil is in some respects far more satisfactory , if it be less exciting ...
... colonies or captaincies were established . Says Watson in his " Spanish and Portuguese America , " Vol . I. , p . 161 : " The history of the early Portu- guese in Brazil is in some respects far more satisfactory , if it be less exciting ...
Page 881
... colonies until the revolution in Latin America ( 1808-21 ) . Then they achieved their independence without much fighting . During the Na- poleonic wars Spain had her hands more than full at home , but after the battle of Waterloo her ...
... colonies until the revolution in Latin America ( 1808-21 ) . Then they achieved their independence without much fighting . During the Na- poleonic wars Spain had her hands more than full at home , but after the battle of Waterloo her ...
Page 985
... colonies are mostly of recent origin , with small membership and very meager resources . They have , therefore , as yet , but little in the way of achievement to relate . Their history , if they are to have a worthy one , is still to be ...
... colonies are mostly of recent origin , with small membership and very meager resources . They have , therefore , as yet , but little in the way of achievement to relate . Their history , if they are to have a worthy one , is still to be ...
Page 986
... colonies would gain their independence , and " complete liberty of conscience be secured to all people . " The government is vested in a central ex- ecutive board called the ministry . This is composed of four persons - two of each sex ...
... colonies would gain their independence , and " complete liberty of conscience be secured to all people . " The government is vested in a central ex- ecutive board called the ministry . This is composed of four persons - two of each sex ...
Page 1009
... colonies was that British manufacturers must wake up . There is no doubt as to the wisdom of that advice . " Trade returns for 1901 show that there was a slight falling - off in the imports into Great Britain , while the reduction in ex ...
... colonies was that British manufacturers must wake up . There is no doubt as to the wisdom of that advice . " Trade returns for 1901 show that there was a slight falling - off in the imports into Great Britain , while the reduction in ex ...
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Page 1093 - States as a holiday or as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving; (15) a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts...
Page 1119 - Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a ^particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be imprisoned not more than seven years, and fined not more than one thousand dollars.
Page 868 - It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.
Page 1253 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 972 - ... 5. To enable such students as may find Washington the best point for their special studies to enjoy the advantages of the museums, libraries, laboratories, observatory, meteorological, piscicultural, and forestry schools, and kindred institutions of the several departments of the Government. 6. To ensure the prompt publication and distribution of the results of scientific investigation, a field considered highly important.
Page 1094 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has, within four months before the filing of the petition, or after the filing of the petition and before the adjudication, procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such...
Page 1007 - Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. Given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie, Ye saw that the land lay fenceless, and ye let the months go by Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some saving sign Idle - openly idle - in the lee of the forespent Line.
Page 1017 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 842 - That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries...
Page 842 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...