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... Loans - Decrease of Bank Facilities - Board of Trade . 41 IV . THE ADMEASUREMENT OF SHIPPING . No. III . The Basis of a Just System- Tonnage should be founded on the broad grounds of Utility - Public Wants and Govern- ment Requirements ...
... Loans - Decrease of Bank Facilities - Board of Trade . 41 IV . THE ADMEASUREMENT OF SHIPPING . No. III . The Basis of a Just System- Tonnage should be founded on the broad grounds of Utility - Public Wants and Govern- ment Requirements ...
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... loans have not increased faster than has been necessary . The individual notes given for produce and goods must of course increase in the aggregate , in proportion to the quantity and value of the articles they represent . Thus the ...
... loans have not increased faster than has been necessary . The individual notes given for produce and goods must of course increase in the aggregate , in proportion to the quantity and value of the articles they represent . Thus the ...
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... loan for carrying on the enterprise . He had also long held the highest office in the people's gift , the Presidency of the Council . He hesitated about accepting the appointment , until Governor Shirley as- sured him that his influence ...
... loan for carrying on the enterprise . He had also long held the highest office in the people's gift , the Presidency of the Council . He hesitated about accepting the appointment , until Governor Shirley as- sured him that his influence ...
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... LOANS - DECREASE OF BANK FACILITIES - BOARD OF TRADE . THE Dutch are sometimes playfully asserted to " have taken Holland , " and they have certainly done so in a sense in which no other country ever was " taken . " They carried on with ...
... LOANS - DECREASE OF BANK FACILITIES - BOARD OF TRADE . THE Dutch are sometimes playfully asserted to " have taken Holland , " and they have certainly done so in a sense in which no other country ever was " taken . " They carried on with ...
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... Loans . $ 15,823,382 Specie . Circulation . $ 527,789 $ 3,770,556 Deposits . $ 2,494,868 Profits . $ 249,629 1835 18,150,000 28,647,438 861,842 3,396,584 8,616,080 593,257 1840 17,850,000 24,810,888 2,378,544 3,431,194 5,967,250 ...
... Loans . $ 15,823,382 Specie . Circulation . $ 527,789 $ 3,770,556 Deposits . $ 2,494,868 Profits . $ 249,629 1835 18,150,000 28,647,438 861,842 3,396,584 8,616,080 593,257 1840 17,850,000 24,810,888 2,378,544 3,431,194 5,967,250 ...
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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.