The North American Review, Volumen165O. Everett, 1897 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... form of currency , and no mode of redemption can avert it . Our annual foreign liability outside of our trade account and unregistered in custom - houses amounts , it is believed THE GREENBACK AND THE GOLD STANDARD . 13.
... form of currency , and no mode of redemption can avert it . Our annual foreign liability outside of our trade account and unregistered in custom - houses amounts , it is believed THE GREENBACK AND THE GOLD STANDARD . 13.
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... foreign creditors prefer our goods to our gold . It is estimated by well - informed persons that Europe holds $ 5,000,000,000 of American securities . If we should again yield to the solicitation of the wild and weird money vagaries ...
... foreign creditors prefer our goods to our gold . It is estimated by well - informed persons that Europe holds $ 5,000,000,000 of American securities . If we should again yield to the solicitation of the wild and weird money vagaries ...
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... foreign bal- ances must be met , whether the metal is in the vaults of the Treasury or those of the banks . Our debts must be paid in gold or goods . It is desirable from a business point of view to hold our reserve in such form as to ...
... foreign bal- ances must be met , whether the metal is in the vaults of the Treasury or those of the banks . Our debts must be paid in gold or goods . It is desirable from a business point of view to hold our reserve in such form as to ...
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... foreign balances , and to condemn it when conditions require it is like condemning the pustules on a man's face when he has the small - pox , though they are the means of expelling the poison which otherwise would be fatal . If the ...
... foreign balances , and to condemn it when conditions require it is like condemning the pustules on a man's face when he has the small - pox , though they are the means of expelling the poison which otherwise would be fatal . If the ...
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... foreign capital . We will be a debtor nation for a long time . Our industrial activity , enterprise , and high rate of inter- est invite capital from abroad . The securities which cross and recross the ocean are American securities . In ...
... foreign capital . We will be a debtor nation for a long time . Our industrial activity , enterprise , and high rate of inter- est invite capital from abroad . The securities which cross and recross the ocean are American securities . In ...
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Página 383 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is in this manner divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands...
Página 361 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Página 218 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Página 108 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet...
Página 266 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Página 663 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Página 447 - ... they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Página 361 - In granting, however, their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of as just an 1 equitable ; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects...
Página 266 - ... if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of Justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract.
Página 668 - Far am I from denying in theory ; full as far is my heart from withholding in practice (if I were of power to give or to withhold) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.