Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, 3. köideF. Hunt, 1840 |
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... considerable portion is still a forest slumbering in its primeval solitude , exhibits in the frame of its early institutions a distinctive form of local character , an independent system of laws , a history distinguished for many ...
... considerable portion is still a forest slumbering in its primeval solitude , exhibits in the frame of its early institutions a distinctive form of local character , an independent system of laws , a history distinguished for many ...
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... considerable bulk of anonymous matter comprised in these journals , we have the more valuable accounts of Father Joseph Marquette , one of the most disinterested and benevolent of these Catholic missionaries , and the first pioneer to ...
... considerable bulk of anonymous matter comprised in these journals , we have the more valuable accounts of Father Joseph Marquette , one of the most disinterested and benevolent of these Catholic missionaries , and the first pioneer to ...
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... considerable inroads into the Indian territory . Individual traders had established themselves in their hunting grounds , and committed acts of outrage which are seldom countenanced excepting on the very verge of civilization : besides ...
... considerable inroads into the Indian territory . Individual traders had established themselves in their hunting grounds , and committed acts of outrage which are seldom countenanced excepting on the very verge of civilization : besides ...
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... considerable value even in the woods ; and the " oak open- ings , " that are but sparsely covered with forest trees , require much labor to prepare the soil for the seed . In our account of the experience of new emigrants to the west ...
... considerable value even in the woods ; and the " oak open- ings , " that are but sparsely covered with forest trees , require much labor to prepare the soil for the seed . In our account of the experience of new emigrants to the west ...
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... considerable value . For this reason , na . tions farther advanced in wealth and civilization have made use of those rarer , and consequently more valuable metals , silver and gold . If this explanation of the origin of money is a ...
... considerable value . For this reason , na . tions farther advanced in wealth and civilization have made use of those rarer , and consequently more valuable metals , silver and gold . If this explanation of the origin of money is a ...
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Page 504 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure...
Page 363 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Page 331 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 363 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this...
Page 403 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 376 - And bended dolphins play ; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean...
Page 403 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 461 - Washington within three months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this convention, and thereto affixed the seals of their arms.
Page 500 - Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Page 403 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.