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... England , condition of . 712 Canal & river insurance in N. York , rates of . 240 66 failures , losses by , in Great Britain .... 721 Banks of Kentucky .. 66 trade of Virginia , the 753 213 66 of the State of New York , resources and ...
... England , condition of . 712 Canal & river insurance in N. York , rates of . 240 66 failures , losses by , in Great Britain .... 721 Banks of Kentucky .. 66 trade of Virginia , the 753 213 66 of the State of New York , resources and ...
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... England to ..... 66 and Europe - canal of Suez imports into .... 66 66 population of Chinese treaty 66 exports to England .. Chlorure d'oxide de sodium , duty on .. PAGE PAGE 223 Chronometer boxes , duty on , ( treas . circular ) 612 ...
... England to ..... 66 and Europe - canal of Suez imports into .... 66 66 population of Chinese treaty 66 exports to England .. Chlorure d'oxide de sodium , duty on .. PAGE PAGE 223 Chronometer boxes , duty on , ( treas . circular ) 612 ...
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... England - The true way to deal with Ship Ton- nage - External , Internal , Sheil , and Mean Tonnage - Great Britain's Internal System recommended for adoption - A similar External System proposed to be used in con- junction - Folly of ...
... England - The true way to deal with Ship Ton- nage - External , Internal , Sheil , and Mean Tonnage - Great Britain's Internal System recommended for adoption - A similar External System proposed to be used in con- junction - Folly of ...
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... England . West Coast ... 111 111 112 Needles Lighthouse , Isle of Wight . - Buoys in the River Tay - Scotland , East Coast ... Change in Position of Surinam Light - Vessel . - Eddystone Lighthouse - England , South Coast . 112 Bass ...
... England . West Coast ... 111 111 112 Needles Lighthouse , Isle of Wight . - Buoys in the River Tay - Scotland , East Coast ... Change in Position of Surinam Light - Vessel . - Eddystone Lighthouse - England , South Coast . 112 Bass ...
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... England , and the principal actor in the greatest martial achievement that graces our colonial history . Not less extraordinary is the fact that a name so honored and ennobled should have become extinct on this continent at the third ...
... England , and the principal actor in the greatest martial achievement that graces our colonial history . Not less extraordinary is the fact that a name so honored and ennobled should have become extinct on this continent at the third ...
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Page 321 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 268 - 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 268 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it.
Page 385 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 269 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 361 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this...
Page 525 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 95 - ... obtained, or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 397 - MR. LIONEL J. BEALE, MRCS THE LAWS OF HEALTH IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MIND AND BODY. A Series of Letters from an Old Practitioner to a Patient.
Page 268 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship ; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side in the same cause.