Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel: Letters and Notes on Sea and LandT. Wilson, printer, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... kind wanted by the society . He had himself been very much in- terested and instructed . Mr. J. Whitwell , the chairman , was sure that the meeting was very much obliged by the care and labour given by the lecturer for their instruction ...
... kind wanted by the society . He had himself been very much in- terested and instructed . Mr. J. Whitwell , the chairman , was sure that the meeting was very much obliged by the care and labour given by the lecturer for their instruction ...
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... allotments , the laws trans- form it into a kind of lottery in which each one takes out his ticket . Unhappily these tickets cost very dear to those whose fortune leads them to the place where the metals are 48 SILVER MINING .
... allotments , the laws trans- form it into a kind of lottery in which each one takes out his ticket . Unhappily these tickets cost very dear to those whose fortune leads them to the place where the metals are 48 SILVER MINING .
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... kind what it is that is unsound . Prosperity is often more unsound than adversity . We saw Germany , five years ago , get £ 200,000,000 from France , but how thrifty France became , and how wondrously she has recovered by her thrift and ...
... kind what it is that is unsound . Prosperity is often more unsound than adversity . We saw Germany , five years ago , get £ 200,000,000 from France , but how thrifty France became , and how wondrously she has recovered by her thrift and ...
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... kind of labour he performed . Correct books , attention to the ledger , close collections , prompt payments , watchful care of the stock that is bought and on hand , and also a care to steadily getting rid of old stocks that are taking ...
... kind of labour he performed . Correct books , attention to the ledger , close collections , prompt payments , watchful care of the stock that is bought and on hand , and also a care to steadily getting rid of old stocks that are taking ...
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... kind friends in England . I commenced being sick on the evening of our departure , and have not been at table once since . On the Tuesday following our departure I was something better , and amused myself by walking on deck and playing ...
... kind friends in England . I commenced being sick on the evening of our departure , and have not been at table once since . On the Tuesday following our departure I was something better , and amused myself by walking on deck and playing ...
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Página 227 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 297 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 63 - He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
Página 181 - ... intention to injure us. We ought rather to meet the anticipated danger by a diligent cultivation, and prudent management, of our own resources. We ought to conciliate the respect and good will of other nations, and secure their assistance in case of need, by the benevolence and justice of our conduct. War is not to be resorted to without absolute necessity, nor unless peace would be more dangerous, and more miserable, than war itself.
Página 153 - ... heats it again, and but for your awnings, and the little air put in circulation by the continual flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects.
Página 153 - ... of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which everywhere else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel. Except when in actual danger of shipwreck, I never spent twelve more disagreeable days in the professional part of my life, than in these calm latitudes.
Página 181 - ... individual member of a state, is a just cause of war, if redress be refused, but a nation is not bound to go to war on so slight a foundation ; for it may of itself grant indemnity to the injured party, and if this cannot be done, yet the good of the whole is to be preferred to the welfare of a part.b Every milder method of redress is to be tried, before the nation makes an appeal to arms ; and this is the sage and moral precept of the writers on natural law.
Página 153 - ... flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which every where else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel.
Página 76 - I am Saint Mark, the patron of Venice ! I learned to-night that the Devils, assembled in council at Lido, in the Jews...