A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volumen2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 páginas |
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... carried on by this means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself nominal and non - existent , but producing real returns . If any one will look back upon the commercial history of ...
... carried on by this means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself nominal and non - existent , but producing real returns . If any one will look back upon the commercial history of ...
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... carried on , we may take the following examples The city of New York , which is built upon a narrow island about ten miles in length , at present covers about three miles of that distance , and has a population of three hundred thousand ...
... carried on , we may take the following examples The city of New York , which is built upon a narrow island about ten miles in length , at present covers about three miles of that distance , and has a population of three hundred thousand ...
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... carried down three miles before we could get her out again . The consequence has been that she has milked nothing but ice - creams ever since . " When you have ascended about fifty miles , the bed of the river becomes contracted and ...
... carried down three miles before we could get her out again . The consequence has been that she has milked nothing but ice - creams ever since . " When you have ascended about fifty miles , the bed of the river becomes contracted and ...
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... to view the falls of the Passaic river , about fifteen miles from New York . This water- power has given birth to Paterson , a town with ten thousand inhabitants , where a variety of manufactures is carried on . A 28 DIARY IN AMERICA .
... to view the falls of the Passaic river , about fifteen miles from New York . This water- power has given birth to Paterson , a town with ten thousand inhabitants , where a variety of manufactures is carried on . A 28 DIARY IN AMERICA .
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With Remarks on Its Institutions Frederick Marryat. where a variety of manufactures is carried on . A more beautiful wild spot can hardly be conceived ; and to an European who has been accus- tomed to travel far in ... carried on. A ...
With Remarks on Its Institutions Frederick Marryat. where a variety of manufactures is carried on . A more beautiful wild spot can hardly be conceived ; and to an European who has been accus- tomed to travel far in ... carried on. A ...
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Página 188 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 73 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Página 68 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Página 188 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 46 - Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally, — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Página 164 - No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Página 72 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Página 68 - ... If a man have a stubborn or rebellious son, of sufficient years and understanding (viz.) sixteen years of age, which will not obey the voice of his Father, or the voice of his Mother, and that when they have chastened him...
Página 102 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors
Página 68 - If any child or children above sixteen years old and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel correction, that they have been forced thereunto, to preserve themselves from death or maiming.