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Decline of the commerce of New Orleans . The importance to the West of building
up and sustaining New Orleans as a great commercial city . Deepening the
channel at the mouth of the Mississippi , improvement of the Rapids & c . . By the
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Decline of the commerce of New Orleans . The importance to the West of building
up and sustaining New Orleans as a great commercial city . Deepening the
channel at the mouth of the Mississippi , improvement of the Rapids & c . . By the
...
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It is not many years since we were laughed at for predicting the probable decline
of New Orleans . The opinion had become almost universal , in both Europe and
America , that New Orleans was destined to rival the greatest commercial cities ...
It is not many years since we were laughed at for predicting the probable decline
of New Orleans . The opinion had become almost universal , in both Europe and
America , that New Orleans was destined to rival the greatest commercial cities ...
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New Orleans , in proud exultation over her natural resources , has cut herself off
from the improvements of the age , and resting upon these resources as upon a
rock , has defied the wind and the waves which have already been sweeping ...
New Orleans , in proud exultation over her natural resources , has cut herself off
from the improvements of the age , and resting upon these resources as upon a
rock , has defied the wind and the waves which have already been sweeping ...
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is of most importance — by munificent appropriations for rail - roads leading from
New Orleans , and connecting with the vast system of rail - roads now projected
or under construction in neighboring states , and by co - operating zealously with
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is of most importance — by munificent appropriations for rail - roads leading from
New Orleans , and connecting with the vast system of rail - roads now projected
or under construction in neighboring states , and by co - operating zealously with
...
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If New Orleans can be made the entrepot of the foreign merchandise required for
the consumption of the West , then a line of cities will arise on the bank of the
Mississippi that will far eclipse those on the Atlantic coast ; but so long as we ...
If New Orleans can be made the entrepot of the foreign merchandise required for
the consumption of the West , then a line of cities will arise on the bank of the
Mississippi that will far eclipse those on the Atlantic coast ; but so long as we ...
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Page 416 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 138 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 341 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 121 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 196 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 200 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 278 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 346 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 197 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 278 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.