In fact, as far back as 1853 some elementary and ineffective legislation had attempted a partial remedy.
Far back in 1834 the government had adopted the policy of setting aside large tracts of land west of the Mississippi for the use of the Indian tribes.
When we first acquired the country, as far back as 1787, there were some slaves within it held by the French inhabitants of Kaskaskia.
Then the boat must have struck the upper point of the pier so far back as not to disturb the wheel.
So far back as we have any records of history, we find notices of this animal, and of its flesh being used as the food of man.
Even as far back as the ninth century, in the midst of the sacred learning so abundant at the court of Charlemagne and his successors, we find a scholar protesting against the accepted doctrine.
For as far back as the seventeenth century acute theologians had begun to discern difficulties more serious than any that had before confronted them.
Kindly as he had been treated by others, far back in his soul was a thing that rankled.
Every Monday morning, as far back as she could recall, her father had wound it before going to work--and to-day he had forgotten.
Falconer no less than twenty-six species, some of them ranging as far back in time as the Miocene period, others still living, like the Indian and African forms.
Without going as far back as the Freneaus and the Callenders, who recalls the names of Mordecai Mannasseh Noah, of Edwin Crosswell and of James Watson Webb?
As far backas 1870 John Russell Young, a friend from boyhood, came with an invitation to pass the week-end as the President's guest at Long Branch.
I do not know just what had befallen if love had failed me, for as far back as I can remember love has been to me the bedrock of all that is worth living for, striving for or possessing in this cross-patch of a world of ours.
Panting, they drew up and ensconced themselves as far back as possible in the doorway.
I was waiting for you at the station--far back in the crowd.
Once in the forest, far back in the hills, he had heard them, he had seen them.
It has been debatable ground as far back as the earliest days of Aryan colonization.
One of the highest authorities dates its erection as far back as the second century before Christ, but it is certainly of a much later date.
The English kings had begun their conquests in that island as far back as the twelfth century; and by dint of much bloodshed and many efforts they had long maintained possession.
As far back as the tenth century, a line of counts was ruling over a castle on the hill of Zollern just north of what is now Switzerland.
As far back as the year 1685, it was customary for the President to deliver an address near the close of the exercises.
A great big hulk of a feller, Tom was; and as far back as Fifty-eight used to make his brags that he could cut and put up his seven cord a day.
It has been true of man himself as far back as we have any records.
Footnote A: The name of Lilith carries us as far back as Babylon, and in her charms and conjurations we have revived in Europe the reflection of old Babylonian charms.
It is very probable that many of these taboos originated even as far back as the stage of society in which the line of descent was traced through the mother.
Its note is in Città di Vita, in the heresy of the Albigenses, and it goes as far back as Origen.
As far backas the first decade of the sixth century (505 A.
We must remember, however, that where now are these massive piers with their richly laden ships and noble argosies, as far back only as 1849 there were no stable docks, no properly constructed wharfs, no convenient landing places.
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