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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...and unprincipled men, is not to be wondered at. But it is very fortunate that our friend sees through their plots, and has independence to oppose lihem face to face, even in the " presence chamber."--Eds.' LETTER XXVII. The Gineral tickled by the New-York and New-Jersey Legislatures--The Charge of Bank Bribery hits the wrong Side--An Indian Fashion recommended--An Experiment at heating one Boiler at a time--State of the Country--The Nub of the Business--Heterodoxy is not my Doxy--A Game, Necromancy or Financy; or Van Buren Cups and Balls--Transfer Checks, Contingent Drafts, and Hocus Pocus--The Gineral at bay--The Pack driven off by the Major's Whip--Scene closes with the Safety Valve open. To my old friend Mr. Dwight, of the N. Y. Daily Advertiser. Washington, 25«A January, 1834. Ever since I and the Gineral settled the Post-Office accounts, as I tell'd you in my last, s by chargin the amount that Major Barry is astarn to 'Glory' and 'Reform,'the Gineral has been more easy about it than I am afeard other folks be, especially some of the opposition folks in Congress: they keep smellin round--and unless we can git up another nullification, there will be trouble, not only about the Post-Office business, but some other branches of the Departments. Congress keeps hammerin away yet about the Deposits, and the Gineral was jest agoin to give up, when we got the news from Albany of the vote of the Legislatur there in favor of the Gineral in taking away the Deposits from the U. S. Bank, and the vote of the New-Jarsey Legislatur, and strong news too that some other Legislaturs wo'd do the same. The Gineral was amazinly tickled, and says he, ' Major, I reckon your notion that the people warn't with us on that pint, is a mistake; and now,' says the...

Excerpt from Elements of Drawing and Mensuration: Applied to the Mechanic ArtsTo understand the most elementary treatise on Natu ral Philosophy, or the simplest work on the Mechanic Arts, or even to make a plane drawing, some knowledge of the principles of Geometry is indispensable; and yet, those in whose hands such works are generally placed, or who are called upon to make plans in the mechanic arts, feel that they have hardly time to go through with a full course of exact demonstration.The system of Geometry is a connected chain of rig orcus logic. Every attempt to compress the reasoning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Title: Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend Mr. Dwight of the New-York Daily Advertiser.<br /><br />Author: Charles Augustus Davis<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP03173800<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG00-B49<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18350101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: "From the latest New-York edition."<br /><br />Collation: 223, [4], 208-215 p<br /><br />

Title: Letters of J. Downing, major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend, Mr. Dwight, of the New-York daily advertiser.<br /><br />Author: Charles Augustus Davis<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP03192900<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG00-B162<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18360101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: Contains 45 letters. Added engr. t.p. Not to be confused with "The select letters of Major Jack Downing" Philadelphia, 1834, written by Seba Smith and originally published in the Portland courier, 1830-1833, to which in the Philadelphia, 1834, edition a few of the Davis leters to the New York daily advertiser are added by way of appendix. Cf. J. Williamson, Bibliog. of ... Maine (1896) p. 448, whose Philadelphia, 1831, edition is probably a misprint for 1834.<br /><br />Collation: x, 400 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm<br /><br />

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Elements of geometry and trigonometry from the works of A. M. Legendre revised and adapted to the course of mathematical instruction in the United States This book, "Elements of geometry and trigonometry from the works of A. M. Legendre", by Davies Charles, is a replication of a book originally published before 1854. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

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