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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 14 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
icWhite StarOct. 21-27, 18915213 Queenstown to New YorkTeutonicWhite StarAug. 13-19, 189151631 Glasgow to New YorkCity of RomeAnchorAug. 18-24, 188662035 New York to GlasgowCity of RomeAnchorAug. 13-19, 188561825 New York to AntwerpFrieslandRed StarAugust, 189482213 Approximate Distances: Sandy Hook (Light-ship). New York, to Queenstown (Roche's Point), 2,800 miles; to Plymouth (Eddystone), 2,962 miles; to Southampton (The Needles), 3.100 miles; to Havre, 3,170 miles; to Cherbourg (The Mole), 3,184 knots. The fastest (lay's run was made by the Deutschland, of the Hamburg-American Line, August, 1900—584 knots, or 23.02 knots per hour. the record-breakers in thirty-five years. The following is the succession of steamships which have broken the record since 1866, with their running time. The route in all cases was that between New York and Queenstown, east or west: Date.Steamer.D.H.M.Date.Steamer.D.H.M. 1856Persia91451885Etruria6531 1866Scotia82481887Umbria6442 1869Ci
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wise, Henry Alexander 1806-1876 (search)
angible and irresponsible, the rule of public, political right. Indeed, is this not the very essence of the higher law doctrine? It cannot be said to be legitimate public sentiment and the action of its authority. Public sentiment, proper, is a concurrence of the common mind in some conclusion, conviction, opinion, taste, or action in respect to persons or things subject to its public notice. It will and it must control the minds and actions of men, by public and conventional opinion. Count Mole said that in France it was stronger than statutes. It is so here. That it is which should decide at the polls of a republic. But here is a secret sentiment, which may be so organized as to contradict the public sentiment. Candidate A may be a native and a Protestant. and may concur with the community, if it be a Know-nothing community, on every other subject except that of proscribing Catholics and naturalized citizens; and candidate B may concur with the community on the subject of t