Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Tom 3F. Hunt, 1840 |
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... greater part never see any thing but the phantom , —the cloud in the place of the goddess ! The great source of mercantile miscarriage is , that the merchant usually begins in a mode of life which should naturally adorn a successful ...
... greater part never see any thing but the phantom , —the cloud in the place of the goddess ! The great source of mercantile miscarriage is , that the merchant usually begins in a mode of life which should naturally adorn a successful ...
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... greater price than all the gifts of intellect or fortune . It is the very salt of human character , without which talents and accomplishments become offensive and noxious precisely in proportion to their strength and power . They may ...
... greater price than all the gifts of intellect or fortune . It is the very salt of human character , without which talents and accomplishments become offensive and noxious precisely in proportion to their strength and power . They may ...
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... greater achievements . The benefits of easy and rapid communica- tion are not to be disparaged , and especially in this extended country , whose union it tends to preserve and perpetuate . But , along with its sig- nal advantages , we ...
... greater achievements . The benefits of easy and rapid communica- tion are not to be disparaged , and especially in this extended country , whose union it tends to preserve and perpetuate . But , along with its sig- nal advantages , we ...
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... greater part in a forward state of cultivation , presents in its dense forests a soil that is in almost its entire portion favorable to agriculture , producing bountiful crops of all those harvests that are found in the same latitude at ...
... greater part in a forward state of cultivation , presents in its dense forests a soil that is in almost its entire portion favorable to agriculture , producing bountiful crops of all those harvests that are found in the same latitude at ...
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... greater part of those volumes are ecclesiastical , proceeding as they did from the ministers of the church , they yet glow with a romantic enthusiasm , the peculiar character- istic of the French people , and for which we look in vain ...
... greater part of those volumes are ecclesiastical , proceeding as they did from the ministers of the church , they yet glow with a romantic enthusiasm , the peculiar character- istic of the French people , and for which we look in vain ...
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Strona 504 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure...
Strona 331 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Strona 403 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Strona 403 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Strona 363 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this...
Strona 461 - ... and may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them, and dispose of the same at their will, paying such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in like cases.
Strona 459 - There shall be between the territories of the high contracting parties a reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. The inhabitants of their respective states shall mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places, and rivers of the territories of each party, wherever foreign commerce is permitted.
Strona 76 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Strona 460 - ... the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishment whatsoever.
Strona 460 - Denmark, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the said dominions of any article, the produce or manufacture of the United States, than are or shall be, payable on the like articles, being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country.