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... professors of the same faith , though the persecuting features of the former section have long since dis appeared , and its asceticism has been greatly modified . Of the intellectual progress and status of the descendants of SKETCHES OF ...
... professors of the same faith , though the persecuting features of the former section have long since dis appeared , and its asceticism has been greatly modified . Of the intellectual progress and status of the descendants of SKETCHES OF ...
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... Professor Kerr , our State geologist , tells me that North Carolina contains over 2,500 species of plants . The fauna is also in the same excess over all other regions of the Union . Here the long - leaf pine , the live - 36 SKETCHES OF ...
... Professor Kerr , our State geologist , tells me that North Carolina contains over 2,500 species of plants . The fauna is also in the same excess over all other regions of the Union . Here the long - leaf pine , the live - 36 SKETCHES OF ...
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... Professor Guyot the gateways of this great group of Southern Highlands . Each of these mighty pillars is over 6,000 feet high , and they stand about twenty miles apart , nearly due east and west . The total length of the system in North ...
... Professor Guyot the gateways of this great group of Southern Highlands . Each of these mighty pillars is over 6,000 feet high , and they stand about twenty miles apart , nearly due east and west . The total length of the system in North ...
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... professors of reli- gion have done more for science than the professors of science have done to propagate religion . Learning in North Carolina owes its existence almost entirely to the clergy . For the first hundred years of our ...
... professors of reli- gion have done more for science than the professors of science have done to propagate religion . Learning in North Carolina owes its existence almost entirely to the clergy . For the first hundred years of our ...
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... Professor of Chemistry , Geology and Natural History , was one of the most remarkable scholars in the land . So great and accurate were his attainments , that he was the referee for all disputed or knotty points which arose in the other ...
... Professor of Chemistry , Geology and Natural History , was one of the most remarkable scholars in the land . So great and accurate were his attainments , that he was the referee for all disputed or knotty points which arose in the other ...
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Страница 45 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Страница 1 - America aforesaid, extending north and eastward as far as the north end of Coratuck river or inlet, upon a straight westerly line to Wyanoke creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirtysix and thirty minutes northern latitude, and so west in a direct line as far as the South seas...
Страница 91 - Time, As it runs^ through the realm of tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a boundless sweep and a surge sublime, As it blends with the Ocean of Years.
Страница 91 - And the garments that she used to wear. There are hands that are waved, when the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air; And we sometimes hear, through the turbulent roar Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before, When the wind down the river is fair.
Страница 49 - ... convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices; and all useful learning shall be duly encouraged, and promoted, in one or more...
Страница 43 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Страница 1 - America aforesaid ; extending north and eastward, as far as the north end of Currituck river or inlet, upon a strait westerly line to Wyonoak creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirtysix and thirty minutes, northern latitude; and so west, in a direct line, as far as the .south seas...
Страница 49 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Страница 147 - Knightly hearts were their's and brave, Men and horses without number All the furrowed ground encumber — Falling fast to their last slumber — Bloody slumber ! bloody grave ! Of that charge at Balaklava — In its chivalry sublime — Vivid, grand, historic pages Shall descend to future ages ; Poets, painters, hoary sages Shall record it for all time ; Telling how those English horsemen Rode the Russian gunners down ; How with ranks all torn and shattered ; How with helmets hacked and battered...
Страница 25 - What the nobles and the crown put in peril, that did the clergy save. By their care the dying spark was kindled into a blaze. When the light grew dim and flickered on the altar their hands trimmed the lamp and fed the sacred flame. This is their real glory, and on this they may well repose. They were the guardians of Scotch freedom, and they stood to their trust.