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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... established , or set up a party of our own , ( in that case , we should soon have heard of Muscogulgce influence ) we might , if we do not overrate our own abilities , have made considerable noise in the world . Had such been our ...
... established , or set up a party of our own , ( in that case , we should soon have heard of Muscogulgce influence ) we might , if we do not overrate our own abilities , have made considerable noise in the world . Had such been our ...
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... established manufactories ; which have been productive of riches and splendor - pover- ty , vice , and disease . Well : let the citizens of the United States extend their commerce , and " You may drive back nature with violence , " ...
... established manufactories ; which have been productive of riches and splendor - pover- ty , vice , and disease . Well : let the citizens of the United States extend their commerce , and " You may drive back nature with violence , " ...
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... established . He contracts debts to an immense amount ; turns his property into cash ; takes the benefit of some act of insolvency or bank- ruptcy ; and his fortune is made ! B , in the mean time , has been much more cxpeditious and ...
... established . He contracts debts to an immense amount ; turns his property into cash ; takes the benefit of some act of insolvency or bank- ruptcy ; and his fortune is made ! B , in the mean time , has been much more cxpeditious and ...
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... established regulations in the operations of nature . Should we see a shark grazing in the fields , or the tiger chasing the fish through the bosom of the deep ; should we find a carnivorous animal with the teeth and feet of an ox , or ...
... established regulations in the operations of nature . Should we see a shark grazing in the fields , or the tiger chasing the fish through the bosom of the deep ; should we find a carnivorous animal with the teeth and feet of an ox , or ...
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... established in the West Indies and the southern parts of the Union , is only a kind of premature , or forced , civilization . Men who had a taste for the luxurious enjoyments of the old world were dissatisfied with the state of society ...
... established in the West Indies and the southern parts of the Union , is only a kind of premature , or forced , civilization . Men who had a taste for the luxurious enjoyments of the old world were dissatisfied with the state of society ...
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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.