Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 1Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1832 - Railroad engineering |
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... nation's foreign merchants and to the fo- reign merchants of all nations for their reverential The local officers of the Canton Government obedience thereto . Mr. Wickliffe opposed the engressment of this bill , would therefore , if ...
... nation's foreign merchants and to the fo- reign merchants of all nations for their reverential The local officers of the Canton Government obedience thereto . Mr. Wickliffe opposed the engressment of this bill , would therefore , if ...
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... nations whom honour , duty , and even interest , com- mighty protection , and enjoy the continuance of thy 200 pages 8vo ... nation You have spared no sacrifice Cholera in India , and who is a physician of charac cruize on the outside of ...
... nations whom honour , duty , and even interest , com- mighty protection , and enjoy the continuance of thy 200 pages 8vo ... nation You have spared no sacrifice Cholera in India , and who is a physician of charac cruize on the outside of ...
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... nation , although in amity with the United the election ; you were a good deal fagged there , my excess of depravation can find an asylum - shall the States ; and put to death several Indians of that na Lord , a good deal fagged ; and a ...
... nation , although in amity with the United the election ; you were a good deal fagged there , my excess of depravation can find an asylum - shall the States ; and put to death several Indians of that na Lord , a good deal fagged ; and a ...
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... nation , yet but tities of grain . To our country especially , so vast in territory and diversified in products , as necessarily to require a perpetual and ever increasing internal commerce , it promises , and at no very distant day ...
... nation , yet but tities of grain . To our country especially , so vast in territory and diversified in products , as necessarily to require a perpetual and ever increasing internal commerce , it promises , and at no very distant day ...
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... nation , " is assumed to refer to the ina til he surprized its usual inmates by his apparition as a broad margin for annotation , and , when complet . jority of the House of Lords , and is thus indig - Chancellor . Of the faults and the ...
... nation , " is assumed to refer to the ina til he surprized its usual inmates by his apparition as a broad margin for annotation , and , when complet . jority of the House of Lords , and is thus indig - Chancellor . Of the faults and the ...
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Page 169 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 122 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 168 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 169 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice...
Page 14 - He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had .been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention continually...
Page 122 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid, and accompany us in it.
Page 169 - ... to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he did not give up to party what was meant for mankind. The consequence is, that his fame is as durable as his principles, as lasting as truth and virtue themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again, like thin...
Page 114 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 153 - ... of the war, and to frustrate the best concerted plans ; and that the discouragement occasioned by the complicated difficulties and embarrassments, in which our affairs were by this means involved, would have long ago produced the dissolution of any army, less patient, less virtuous, and less persevering, than that which I have had the honor to command.
Page 153 - States ; that the inefficacy of measures arising from the want of an adequate authority in the supreme power, from a partial compliance with the requisitions of Congress in some of the States, and from a failure of punctuality in others...