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Page 86
... appearance of the building ; the cost of painting the entire walls , $ 1,000 . They recommend the sidewalk to the Springfield road , about 900 feet on west side of University grounds ; cost of sidewalk , $ 250 . They also recommend the ...
... appearance of the building ; the cost of painting the entire walls , $ 1,000 . They recommend the sidewalk to the Springfield road , about 900 feet on west side of University grounds ; cost of sidewalk , $ 250 . They also recommend the ...
Page 139
... appearance of his fruit , but it is attended with more labor and expense than the bed system . Many cultivators prefer planting in rows , when they set the strawberries about a foot apart , and place the rows two feet or more one from ...
... appearance of his fruit , but it is attended with more labor and expense than the bed system . Many cultivators prefer planting in rows , when they set the strawberries about a foot apart , and place the rows two feet or more one from ...
Page 156
... appearance of the moon and the heavenly bodies in general , but they will be prognostics of no other kind , and for no other reason , than the sputtering of the oil in the industrious maiden's lamp , or the excrescences which gather ...
... appearance of the moon and the heavenly bodies in general , but they will be prognostics of no other kind , and for no other reason , than the sputtering of the oil in the industrious maiden's lamp , or the excrescences which gather ...
Page 166
... appearance of white sugar This sand , appearing on the Illinois river , near immense beds of lea coal , suggested that the time would come when an immense buste ness would be built up in glass manufacture . We have at Peoria a different ...
... appearance of white sugar This sand , appearing on the Illinois river , near immense beds of lea coal , suggested that the time would come when an immense buste ness would be built up in glass manufacture . We have at Peoria a different ...
Page 183
... feet high . If on rich soil , it grows large , and the general appearance is such as leads one to suppose that there are two varieties of red - top , when there is but one . Mr. DUNLAP - There were one or two points in 183.
... feet high . If on rich soil , it grows large , and the general appearance is such as leads one to suppose that there are two varieties of red - top , when there is but one . Mr. DUNLAP - There were one or two points in 183.
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Page 320 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 3 - ... to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to. agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies.
Page 86 - That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature.
Page 55 - An oath is an outward pledge given by the person taking it that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of his responsibility to God.
Page 134 - Commissioners to aid them in the discharge of their duties, as the public good may require. 4. They should have power to administer oaths, and to prescribe from time to time such rules and regulations as may be necessary to accomplish the objects of their appointment.
Page 183 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before...
Page 370 - The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer...
Page 86 - ... to be disbursed under the direction of Congress, in making roads leading to the State ; the residue to be appropriated by the Legislature of the State, for the encouragement of learning, of which one-sixth part shall be exclusively bestowed on a college or university.
Page 281 - I do not know that I can add anything to what has been already said in the text of the Lecture on this point.