Supplement to Encyclopędia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 2Henry G. Allen Company, 1891 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... North and South America , and especially to the inter - oceanic communications , should the same prove to be practicable , whether by canal or railway , which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama .
... North and South America , and especially to the inter - oceanic communications , should the same prove to be practicable , whether by canal or railway , which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama .
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Page 269 - America ; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have to or with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Page 60 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 347 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 246 - Amendment which provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
Page 268 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean ; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 269 - In granting, however, their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of, as just and equitable...
Page 236 - Parties, the Officers of the American Army do hereby in the most Solemn Manner associate, constitute, and combine themselves into one Society of Friends, to endure as long as they shall endure or any of their Eldest Male Posterity, and in failure thereof the Collateral Branches, who may be judged worthy of becoming its Supporters and Members.
Page 223 - RULING elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising government and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated in the Holy Scriptures, by the title of governments, and of those who rule well, but do not labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 269 - And the contracting parties likewise agree that each shall enter into treaty stipulations with such of the Central American States as they may deem advisable, for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the great design of this convention — namely, that of constructing and maintaining the said canal as a ship communication between the two oceans for the benefit of mankind, on equal terms to all, and of protecting the same...
Page 144 - ... of the old corporation; with further power to establish new colleges and an institute, and to apply all or any part of the funds to these purposes, subject to the power and control of a board of twenty-five overseers, to be appointed by the Governor and Council. The second act makes further provisions for executing the objects of the first, and the last act authorizes the defendant, the treasurer of the plaintiffs, to retain and hold their property, against their will.
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| Title | Supplement to Encyclopędia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 2 Supplement to Encyclopędia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature |
| Publisher | Henry G. Allen Company, 1891 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 May 2005 |
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