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... Moon , much diminution of the light is not to be expected , probably not enough to render visible the planet Venus , then about 13 degrees east of the Sun ; but a very considerable effect on the thermometer will doubtless be noticed ...
... Moon , much diminution of the light is not to be expected , probably not enough to render visible the planet Venus , then about 13 degrees east of the Sun ; but a very considerable effect on the thermometer will doubtless be noticed ...
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... Moon have , however , been placed in the Appendix , and the beginning and end of twilight for every eighth day , and the distance of the centre of the Moon from the centre of the Earth , at each apogee and perigee , sub- stituted . The ...
... Moon have , however , been placed in the Appendix , and the beginning and end of twilight for every eighth day , and the distance of the centre of the Moon from the centre of the Earth , at each apogee and perigee , sub- stituted . The ...
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... Moon is given from new moon to full , and the rising from full moon to new ; the letters M. A. m . a , to be found in these col- umns and in other parts of the Almanac , are used to denote Morning and Afternoon . The time of the Phases ...
... Moon is given from new moon to full , and the rising from full moon to new ; the letters M. A. m . a , to be found in these col- umns and in other parts of the Almanac , are used to denote Morning and Afternoon . The time of the Phases ...
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... Moon's distance from them is rendered nearly useless . Indeed it has been asserted , that it could be more accu- rately measured on a celestial globe , than by any instrument of reflection whatever . But the planets are so much more ...
... Moon's distance from them is rendered nearly useless . Indeed it has been asserted , that it could be more accu- rately measured on a celestial globe , than by any instrument of reflection whatever . But the planets are so much more ...
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... Moon Appulses of the Moon to Planets and 1831 • 29 Latitude and Longitude of Places 29 Longest and Shortest Days . 29 CALENDAR - January & c . Eclipses of the Sun from 1822 to 1900 METEOROLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION . 1. Natural ...
... Moon Appulses of the Moon to Planets and 1831 • 29 Latitude and Longitude of Places 29 Longest and Shortest Days . 29 CALENDAR - January & c . Eclipses of the Sun from 1822 to 1900 METEOROLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION . 1. Natural ...
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Page 119 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 120 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. 3. 'The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not...
Page 118 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 110 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 117 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 117 - They shall, in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Page 121 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 116 - ... 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Page 124 - All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Page 117 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.