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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... question is easily asked ; but I shall find it difficult to give you a satis factory answer . It is something of which we may form a confused idea ; but which we find it impossible to describe . It is like the urim and thummim on the ...
... question is easily asked ; but I shall find it difficult to give you a satis factory answer . It is something of which we may form a confused idea ; but which we find it impossible to describe . It is like the urim and thummim on the ...
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... questions on each of these sub- asked . jects ; and these were the only questions I Piomingo . How did you conduct the spout- ing match ? Schoolmaster . Why , we delivered " Sempro- nius ' speech for war , " " Lucius ' speech for peace ...
... questions on each of these sub- asked . jects ; and these were the only questions I Piomingo . How did you conduct the spout- ing match ? Schoolmaster . Why , we delivered " Sempro- nius ' speech for war , " " Lucius ' speech for peace ...
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... questions to ask concerning the friends . The best and wisest philosophers of antiquity were remarkable for the ... question cannot be answered without bestowing at the same time the high- est praise on the wisdom of the society ...
... questions to ask concerning the friends . The best and wisest philosophers of antiquity were remarkable for the ... question cannot be answered without bestowing at the same time the high- est praise on the wisdom of the society ...
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... question , Pio- mingo ? Piomiogo . Because you appear to me to be carried away by a frantic enthusiasm , which I should not expect to find in a man who had arrived at years of maturity : at least , in a man who had made human nature his ...
... question , Pio- mingo ? Piomiogo . Because you appear to me to be carried away by a frantic enthusiasm , which I should not expect to find in a man who had arrived at years of maturity : at least , in a man who had made human nature his ...
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... question his Maker concerning the propriety of showing so much lenity and in- dulgence to the dissolute and profane . - You smile , Piomingo - May this moment be my last , if he would not address the creator of the world with as much ...
... question his Maker concerning the propriety of showing so much lenity and in- dulgence to the dissolute and profane . - You smile , Piomingo - May this moment be my last , if he would not address the creator of the world with as much ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.