Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to Amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania, December 22, 1837. In Support of an Amendment to Prohibit Banks from Issuing Notes of a Less Denomination Than Ten Dollars, as Offered by Mr. Read of SusquehannaJ. Wilbank, 1838 - 15 páginas |
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... true God : yet they adore him " with all their heart , and with all their soul , and with all their strength , and with all their mind . " They offer up at his shrine , as freewill offerings , every thing that is precious and valuable ...
... true God : yet they adore him " with all their heart , and with all their soul , and with all their strength , and with all their mind . " They offer up at his shrine , as freewill offerings , every thing that is precious and valuable ...
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... True : but it is also to be considered that this is the report of his enemies . While these thoughts were chasing each other through our mind , in the dead hour of the night , we all at once felt a strong inclina- tion to interrogate ...
... True : but it is also to be considered that this is the report of his enemies . While these thoughts were chasing each other through our mind , in the dead hour of the night , we all at once felt a strong inclina- tion to interrogate ...
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... True , very true ; I should not suffer my screnity to be disturbed by their contempti ble malignity . [ Here he suppressed his agita- tion , adjusted his robe , and called up the obe- dient smiles in his countenance . ] Piomingo . Your ...
... True , very true ; I should not suffer my screnity to be disturbed by their contempti ble malignity . [ Here he suppressed his agita- tion , adjusted his robe , and called up the obe- dient smiles in his countenance . ] Piomingo . Your ...
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... true ; but in conversation we are generally prolix , and it is necessary in writing a letter that we should avoid that prolixity . It requires a considerable portion of ingenuity to condense our matter sufficiently , and still retain ...
... true ; but in conversation we are generally prolix , and it is necessary in writing a letter that we should avoid that prolixity . It requires a considerable portion of ingenuity to condense our matter sufficiently , and still retain ...
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... true , man is a frail being . His are all of his own manufacture ; and he pledges faults are numerous : nor is there one , who can his word that they have never been touched by so far govern his appetites and passions as to Homer or any ...
... true , man is a frail being . His are all of his own manufacture ; and he pledges faults are numerous : nor is there one , who can his word that they have never been touched by so far govern his appetites and passions as to Homer or any ...
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Página 9 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 113 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Página 80 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 41 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 2 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 40 - And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Página 10 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Página 7 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings —yet the dead are there...
Página 23 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator...
Página 6 - ... of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the states respectively, on entering into the constitutional compact, which formed the union and as such are a manifest breach of faith, and a violation of the most solemn obligations, moral and religious.