The Western Journal, of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, and General Literature, Volume 5M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1851 - Missouri |
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... reason to doubt that each year will become more and more fruitful in works of art , until labor shall become what it was designed to be by the Creator , a pleasing exercise , imparting health to the body and gratification to the mind ...
... reason to doubt that each year will become more and more fruitful in works of art , until labor shall become what it was designed to be by the Creator , a pleasing exercise , imparting health to the body and gratification to the mind ...
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... reason- ings to facts , we shall find : a . That a cut - off shortens the channel , increases the decliv- ity , accelerates the velocity , strengthens the channel - making power , abrades the banks and bottom with more vigor , and ul ...
... reason- ings to facts , we shall find : a . That a cut - off shortens the channel , increases the decliv- ity , accelerates the velocity , strengthens the channel - making power , abrades the banks and bottom with more vigor , and ul ...
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... reason , they are now being destroyed by caving banks and by lashing waves . c . A period has arrived , when these new elements have cut . away the small battures ; and the high waters which the geolo- gy of this alluvion shows to have ...
... reason , they are now being destroyed by caving banks and by lashing waves . c . A period has arrived , when these new elements have cut . away the small battures ; and the high waters which the geolo- gy of this alluvion shows to have ...
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... reason and truth . ART . III . - NICARAGUA CANAL - RIVER SAN JUAN . We copy from the Railroad Journal , a portion of a letter from Mr. Squier , United States Charge d'Affairs to Central America , describing the river San Juan ...
... reason and truth . ART . III . - NICARAGUA CANAL - RIVER SAN JUAN . We copy from the Railroad Journal , a portion of a letter from Mr. Squier , United States Charge d'Affairs to Central America , describing the river San Juan ...
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... reason of information acquired during his residence in Wash- ington , and an extensive system of comparisons , it has been rendered more com- plete , and entirely consistent with itself in all its parts , and with the facts of his- tory ...
... reason of information acquired during his residence in Wash- ington , and an extensive system of comparisons , it has been rendered more com- plete , and entirely consistent with itself in all its parts , and with the facts of his- tory ...
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