 York is not beyond some other States ; is it from other sources of industry additional to her produce? This may be; — or is it a moral superiority? — a sounder calculating mind, as to the most profitable employment of surplus, by improvement of capital,...  Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society - Page 280by Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...enterprises. It is not from greater surplus of produce, after supplying their own wants [in New York], for in this, New York is not beyond some other states....employment of surplus, by improvement of capital instead of consumption ? I should lean to this latter hypothesis, were I disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations... | |
 | David Hosack - Celebrities - 1829 - 562 pages
...other sources of industry additional to her produce ? This may be ;— or is it a moral superiority.'1 a sounder calculating mind, as to the most profitable...disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations ; but at the age of 80, it would be an idle labour, which I leave to the generation which is to see... | |
 | Commerce - 1850 - 720 pages
...that New York has anticipated, by a full century, the ordinary progress of improvement." And he adds: "This great work suggests a question, both curious...disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations ; but at the age of eighty, it would be an idle labor, which I leave to the generation which is to... | |
 | Elizur Wright - Antislavery movements - 1882 - 344 pages
...Thomas Jefferson wrote to De Witt Clinton, Dec. 12, 1822. " New York," said the Sage of Monticello, " has anticipated by a full century the ordinary progress...disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations." Dr. Hosack's Life of Clinton, page 348. Whoever will weigh the facts, and especially those that immediately... | |
 | Ronald E. Shaw - Transportation - 1966 - 474 pages
...to execute great enterprises. It is not from greater surplus of produce, . . . for in this New-York is not beyond some other states; is it from other...capital, instead of useless consumption? I should lean to the latter hypothesis, were I disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations; but at the age of... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...enterprises. It is not from a greater surplus of produce after supplying their own wants, for in this NY is not beyond some other states; is it from other...capital instead of useless consumption? I should lean to the latter hypothesis were I disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations, but at the age of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 654 pages
...enterprises. It is not from greater surplus of produce, after supplying their own wants [in New York], for in this, New York is not beyond some other states....employment of surplus, by improvement of capital instead of consumption? I should lean to this latter hypothesis, were I disposed to puzzle myself with such investigations... | |
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