The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, 3. köideF. Hunt, 1840 |
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... measure stamp the impression of its character abroad . Are they just , faithful , true to their engagements , obedient to the principles of sound morality , prudent , industrious , in a word , wise in true wisdom , which teaches to seek ...
... measure stamp the impression of its character abroad . Are they just , faithful , true to their engagements , obedient to the principles of sound morality , prudent , industrious , in a word , wise in true wisdom , which teaches to seek ...
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... measure , however , is seldom resorted to , and in these few cases is too long postponed . In the mean time , that is , between the first warning of coming calamity and its final consummation , the ill - directed struggles of the ...
... measure , however , is seldom resorted to , and in these few cases is too long postponed . In the mean time , that is , between the first warning of coming calamity and its final consummation , the ill - directed struggles of the ...
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... measures are still in use . There is not , I am firmly persuaded , a merchant of any standing in Philadelphia - one ... measure , put at risk , and we must make the greater exertion to save it . We must also bear in mind how much we all ...
... measures are still in use . There is not , I am firmly persuaded , a merchant of any standing in Philadelphia - one ... measure , put at risk , and we must make the greater exertion to save it . We must also bear in mind how much we all ...
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... measure the duration of the calamities of a moral convulsion ? Who can tell the extent of the mischief man can do himself and to others , by his feeble breath employed to inflate a bubble ? Some fall down dead - killed by the excitement ...
... measure the duration of the calamities of a moral convulsion ? Who can tell the extent of the mischief man can do himself and to others , by his feeble breath employed to inflate a bubble ? Some fall down dead - killed by the excitement ...
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... measure modified by the nature of the climate and the soil , is more generally founded upon the character of the people and the constitution of its laws . This is clearly exhibited in the case of the northwest , for while the domain was ...
... measure modified by the nature of the climate and the soil , is more generally founded upon the character of the people and the constitution of its laws . This is clearly exhibited in the case of the northwest , for while the domain was ...
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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.