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Page 9
... dollars . In the midst of his law studies in Wythe's office Jefferson came of age , and celebrated the event in characteristic fashion by planting an avenue of trees at Shadwell . He was now master of the estate , for by the laws of ...
... dollars . In the midst of his law studies in Wythe's office Jefferson came of age , and celebrated the event in characteristic fashion by planting an avenue of trees at Shadwell . He was now master of the estate , for by the laws of ...
Page 105
... dollar for Morris's absurd unit of 1-1440 of a dollar , and advocating the extension of the decimal system to all our tables of weights and measures - a service for which school children and teachers , clerks and merchants , " the mason ...
... dollar for Morris's absurd unit of 1-1440 of a dollar , and advocating the extension of the decimal system to all our tables of weights and measures - a service for which school children and teachers , clerks and merchants , " the mason ...
Page 153
... dollars , held by the capitalists of the coun- try , and assured to them as a permanent invest- ment by the provision that Congress might redeem no more than two per cent of the principal annu- ally . To Hamilton's opponents this scheme ...
... dollars , held by the capitalists of the coun- try , and assured to them as a permanent invest- ment by the provision that Congress might redeem no more than two per cent of the principal annu- ally . To Hamilton's opponents this scheme ...
Page 162
... dollars a year , and encouraged him to set up a newspaper in Philadelphia as a makeweight to John Fenno's United States Gazette , which under Hamilton's pat- ronage was " disseminating the doctrines of mon- archy , aristocracy , and the ...
... dollars a year , and encouraged him to set up a newspaper in Philadelphia as a makeweight to John Fenno's United States Gazette , which under Hamilton's pat- ronage was " disseminating the doctrines of mon- archy , aristocracy , and the ...
Page 165
... dollars , as against two million dollars from France . Large amounts of British capital were invested in the shares of our national bank . The farmers , arti- sans , and small traders , on the other hand , whose interests were wholly ...
... dollars , as against two million dollars from France . Large amounts of British capital were invested in the shares of our national bank . The farmers , arti- sans , and small traders , on the other hand , whose interests were wholly ...
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