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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... operation without the assistance of another ; but as it is , I am under the necessity of procuring some one to execute that which I am fully capable of projecting . This head , Piomingo , this head of mine , is invaluable . O what great ...
... operation without the assistance of another ; but as it is , I am under the necessity of procuring some one to execute that which I am fully capable of projecting . This head , Piomingo , this head of mine , is invaluable . O what great ...
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... operations , how can we expect to have it regulated by the hand of daring and unprincipled ignorance ? A multitude of laws is one of the distinguish ing characteristics of civilization : why then are there no laws against quackery ...
... operations , how can we expect to have it regulated by the hand of daring and unprincipled ignorance ? A multitude of laws is one of the distinguish ing characteristics of civilization : why then are there no laws against quackery ...
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... operation of com- merce , civilization , refinement , & c . but we have already proved that the tendency of these things is to produce luxury , corruption , vice , and misery . Here we are at a full stand . The foundation of the ...
... operation of com- merce , civilization , refinement , & c . but we have already proved that the tendency of these things is to produce luxury , corruption , vice , and misery . Here we are at a full stand . The foundation of the ...
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... operations , and , in the end , prove the means of his destruction . He must appear to be an enemy to injustice , cruelty and dis- simulation ; but he must remember to be pos- sessed of these vices , in fact : he will find them ...
... operations , and , in the end , prove the means of his destruction . He must appear to be an enemy to injustice , cruelty and dis- simulation ; but he must remember to be pos- sessed of these vices , in fact : he will find them ...
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... 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 a graminivorous beast with 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 a graminivorous beast with the ...
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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.