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... Profits of mining in England 646 66 manufacture 769 Productions of Cuba .... 242 Promissory note , informality in a .............................. .. 458 Silver coins , price of ... 603 66 import and export of 479 ... 66 note , action ...
... Profits of mining in England 646 66 manufacture 769 Productions of Cuba .... 242 Promissory note , informality in a .............................. .. 458 Silver coins , price of ... 603 66 import and export of 479 ... 66 note , action ...
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... profits of the few succeeding years , the fishing tonnage rapidly increased . But difficulties soon arose regarding the con- struction of the treaty of 1783 ; the British colonial authorities forbade our vessels to approach within 60 ...
... profits of the few succeeding years , the fishing tonnage rapidly increased . But difficulties soon arose regarding the con- struction of the treaty of 1783 ; the British colonial authorities forbade our vessels to approach within 60 ...
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... profits , however , did not long remain so high as in the period immediately following the war . The maximum number of vessels engaged in the codfishery was reached in 1829 ; and that in the mackerel fishery in 1836. Since those periods ...
... profits , however , did not long remain so high as in the period immediately following the war . The maximum number of vessels engaged in the codfishery was reached in 1829 ; and that in the mackerel fishery in 1836. Since those periods ...
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... profits both rise commodities fall in their money price . In respect to manufactured fabrics , the Lowell statistics to which we were referred by R. S. , furnished the means of experiencing how it comes that a piece of cotton cloth can ...
... profits both rise commodities fall in their money price . In respect to manufactured fabrics , the Lowell statistics to which we were referred by R. S. , furnished the means of experiencing how it comes that a piece of cotton cloth can ...
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... profits has diminished . But the captialist takes his diminished proportion from an increased total produc- tion . To the owner of a mill it is a matter of indifference whether he re- ceives in return for the use of his buildings ...
... profits has diminished . But the captialist takes his diminished proportion from an increased total produc- tion . To the owner of a mill it is a matter of indifference whether he re- ceives in return for the use of his buildings ...
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Page 25 - of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 25 - that the citizens of the United States should have 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. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 569 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunt in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or
Page 25 - or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose, with the inhabitant«, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 455 - 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 42 - they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three. This, however, is by no means the case with the greater part. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to over-work themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years."— Wealth
Page 590 - and mills or thousandths."* That the " dollars or units each be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four-sixteenths parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard