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Página 54 - America" and consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state, chosen by the several state legislatures, for a term of six years.
Página 54 - The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and eight associate justices, who are appointed by the President with the advice of the Senate.
Página 88 - In all cases where the parents of pupils sent to the Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb...
Página 20 - If, therefore, the axis of the earth were perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, the days and nights would...
Página 38 - It is instructive to see trade in its lowest form among such tribes as the Australians. The tough greenstone, valuable for making hatchets, is carried hundreds of miles by natives who receive from other tribes in return the prized products of their districts, such as red ochre to paint their bodies with ; they have even got so far as to let peaceful traders pass unharmed through tribes at war, so.
Página 45 - The territory is eight thousand miles in circumference, extending from the Alleghany to the Rocky mountains, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Lakes of the North ; and it is the largest territory, and most beneficent in climate, and soil, and mineral wealth, and commercial facilities, ever prepared for the habitation of man, and qualified to sustain in prosperity and happiness the densest population on the globe.
Página 24 - ... motion. Where the barometric gradients are steep, these winds are apt to be strong; where they are gentle, the winds are apt to be weak; where they are absent, as is the case at the center or bottom of the depression, calms are apt to prevail.
Página 32 - Mankind has been classed by different ethnologists into a variety of races or types of humanity; the most generally accepted classification for the last century being Blumenbach's division into five races — the Caucasian, or white race; the Mongolian, or yellow race; the Ethiopian, or black race; the American, or red race; and the Malay, or brown race. The only race which has figured in history is the Caucasian. The history of the civilized world is the history of the Caucasian race. The great...
Página 73 - ... into September. Before this time, however, the cereals, with the exception of corn, should be matured, and probably two or more cuttings of alfalfa made. For the greater part of the Territory it may be said that irrigation is practiced or is necessary to successful farming throughout the entire year. In the lower plains the temperature is such that crops will grow and mature at any season of the year, provided there is a sufficient supply of moisture. Crop follows crop in constant succession,...
Página 129 - And all the gates of His house are open. Where dwell you, man, woman ? in Scotland or England ? in the east or in the west ? in the north or in the south ? O come in, come in ; for the gates are open to you, Isa.