Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volumen1F. Hunt, 1839 |
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... tion , before which they are fast melting away . As little is it doubted by any , that civilization admits of comparison and degrees - that one people may be more or less civilized than another - just as civilization in the East ...
... tion , before which they are fast melting away . As little is it doubted by any , that civilization admits of comparison and degrees - that one people may be more or less civilized than another - just as civilization in the East ...
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... tion . It was time that the human mind should begin to be turned in upon itself , and opportunity afforded it to try the strength and the elegance of its own powers . It seems to have been put to the Greeks , to show what the human ...
... tion . It was time that the human mind should begin to be turned in upon itself , and opportunity afforded it to try the strength and the elegance of its own powers . It seems to have been put to the Greeks , to show what the human ...
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... more , the more they produce . As produc- tion swells , profits increase ; the elements are set to work , instead of muscles ; machinery comes in substitution of labor ; wealth abounds ; 12 Commerce , as connected with Civilization .
... more , the more they produce . As produc- tion swells , profits increase ; the elements are set to work , instead of muscles ; machinery comes in substitution of labor ; wealth abounds ; 12 Commerce , as connected with Civilization .
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... tion Alexander proposed and was prepared to remove , however difficult — the first example , it is believed , on record , of a plan to free the channel of a river from impediments to its navigation , whether natural or artificial . This ...
... tion Alexander proposed and was prepared to remove , however difficult — the first example , it is believed , on record , of a plan to free the channel of a river from impediments to its navigation , whether natural or artificial . This ...
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... tion is better than blood in composing disputes , and that treaties and compacts between nations are quite as rational and effectual a way of defining accurate- ly their mutual rights and obligations , and bringing them to a good under ...
... tion is better than blood in composing disputes , and that treaties and compacts between nations are quite as rational and effectual a way of defining accurate- ly their mutual rights and obligations , and bringing them to a good under ...
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Página 394 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 525 - Co. and by force of the law, and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Página 413 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Página 275 - an Act to provide for obtaining accurate Statements of the Foreign Commerce of The United States...
Página 397 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Página 261 - One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, the Standard Measure of Capacity, as well for Liquids as for dry Goods not measured by Heaped Measure, shall be the Gallon., containing Ten Pounds Avoirdupois Weight of distilled Water weighed in Air, at the Temperature of Sixty two Degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, the Barometer being at Thirty Inches...
Página 168 - July next, the following gold coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be receivable in all payments by weight, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say : The gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two carats fine, at the rate of 94 cts.
Página 525 - We think it is well settled, that by the law of comity among nations, a corporation created by one sovereignty is permitted to make contracts in another, and to sue in its Courts ; and that the same law of comity prevails among the several sovereignties of this Union.
Página 395 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Página 525 - It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that State only, yet it does not by any means follow that its existence there will not be recognized in other places; and its residence in one State creates no insuperable objection to its power of contracting in another.