Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 26Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana Freeman Hunt, 1852 - Commerce |
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... nearly exhausted , yet resolved to make no peace without a guaranty of our rights to our ancient fishing grounds . The New England people , with one voice , declared they would never lay down their arms , though their condition were ten ...
... nearly exhausted , yet resolved to make no peace without a guaranty of our rights to our ancient fishing grounds . The New England people , with one voice , declared they would never lay down their arms , though their condition were ten ...
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... nearly the same before as after a movement of this kind ? We might ask the same question with regard to money . When a panic takes place there is neither more nor less money than there was just before . It is because the rate of ...
... nearly the same before as after a movement of this kind ? We might ask the same question with regard to money . When a panic takes place there is neither more nor less money than there was just before . It is because the rate of ...
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... nearly destroyed by the flood in 1846 , but has been restored to a better condition than before . Its present enterprising proprietor , Mr. Howe , is doing well with the business . He makes an average of 30,000 bushels of salt , which ...
... nearly destroyed by the flood in 1846 , but has been restored to a better condition than before . Its present enterprising proprietor , Mr. Howe , is doing well with the business . He makes an average of 30,000 bushels of salt , which ...
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... Nearly all the cocoa nut and orange trees on the island were rooted up and destroyed . A large box , containing muskets , which was in the fort , was found , the next day , on Tifft's Wharf , nearly half a mile distant . A grind - stone ...
... Nearly all the cocoa nut and orange trees on the island were rooted up and destroyed . A large box , containing muskets , which was in the fort , was found , the next day , on Tifft's Wharf , nearly half a mile distant . A grind - stone ...
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... nearly as may be in value , to such fixed rates , or the intrinsic value thereof , compared with money of the United States , ( 1 Statutes at Large , 673. ) The following proviso was added to the section , " That it shall be lawful for ...
... nearly as may be in value , to such fixed rates , or the intrinsic value thereof , compared with money of the United States , ( 1 Statutes at Large , 673. ) The following proviso was added to the section , " That it shall be lawful for ...
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Page 763 - ... shall deem proper, under the penalty of forfeiting the shares of stock subscribed for, and all previous payments made thereon, if payment shall not be made by the stockholders...
Page 449 - As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed.
Page 28 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St.
Page 26 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 135 - Keep good company, or none. Never be idle; if your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face.
Page 328 - Courts of Common Pleas, Courts of Probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the Supreme Court, as the General Assembly may, from time to time, establish.
Page 42 - A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition and of ending his days, perhaps, in ease and plenty animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious than where they are low ; in England, for example, than in Scotland ; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places.
Page 100 - Society for the Relief of Distressed and Decayed Pilots, their Widows and Children, has any legitimate tendency to impress on it the character of a revenue law.
Page 763 - ... stock shall consist, the number of directors, and their names, who shall manage the concerns of said company for the first year, and the name of the town and county in which the operations of the said company are to be carried on.
Page 376 - ... proper and necessary for diseases and accidents incident to sea voyages, and for the...