The Balance, and Columbian Repository, 2. köideSampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1803 |
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... most exorbitant price for foreign articles . A quart of brandy cofts two roubles and an half ; fugar is a rouble a ... most eligible and delicious repast.It is the misfor- tune of most of the young people who read the productions of this ...
... most exorbitant price for foreign articles . A quart of brandy cofts two roubles and an half ; fugar is a rouble a ... most eligible and delicious repast.It is the misfor- tune of most of the young people who read the productions of this ...
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... most ufeful arts and cultivates the most frivo- lous ; whilft he conftitutes himself the champion of virtue , and composes a volup tuous romance ; whilft he declaims against the ufe of eloquence , and fpeaks without ceasing his favorite ...
... most ufeful arts and cultivates the most frivo- lous ; whilft he conftitutes himself the champion of virtue , and composes a volup tuous romance ; whilft he declaims against the ufe of eloquence , and fpeaks without ceasing his favorite ...
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... most ridiculous upon my word- " A thing , indeed , that's monstrously absurd . " Hold , hold , my friend - in justice - doing scales The greater weight invariably prevails ; And sure , that side which has the greatest weight , In this ...
... most ridiculous upon my word- " A thing , indeed , that's monstrously absurd . " Hold , hold , my friend - in justice - doing scales The greater weight invariably prevails ; And sure , that side which has the greatest weight , In this ...
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... most important event , as ref- pects the United States , which has happen . ed fince the breaking out of the French rev . olution : " The ceffion of the Spanish province of Louiliana to France , which took place in the courfe of the ...
... most important event , as ref- pects the United States , which has happen . ed fince the breaking out of the French rev . olution : " The ceffion of the Spanish province of Louiliana to France , which took place in the courfe of the ...
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... most advantageous way of the grain . The work , when finished , may be covered with gravel , in the mener of ftone bridges . This method is doubtlefs preferable to that of building with flone , or even iron , as , from The Wreath . FOR ...
... most advantageous way of the grain . The work , when finished , may be covered with gravel , in the mener of ftone bridges . This method is doubtlefs preferable to that of building with flone , or even iron , as , from The Wreath . FOR ...
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Page 65 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
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Page 112 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 356 - I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first, That I never might need them at last.' ' You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, ' And pleasures with youth pass away, And yet you lament not the days that are gone : Now tell me the reason, I pray ? '
Page 346 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
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Page 173 - Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.