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... Political Economy of a Famine . 247 ART . IX 246 Mr. Adams ' and M. Le Verrier's Researches , & c .
... Political Economy of a Famine . 247 ART . IX 246 Mr. Adams ' and M. Le Verrier's Researches , & c .
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Political Economy of a Famine . 247 ART . IX . - 1 . Correspondence from July 1846 to February 1847 , relating to the measures adopted for the Relief of the Distress in Scotland . 2. Correspondence from July 1846 to January 1847 ...
Political Economy of a Famine . 247 ART . IX . - 1 . Correspondence from July 1846 to February 1847 , relating to the measures adopted for the Relief of the Distress in Scotland . 2. Correspondence from July 1846 to January 1847 ...
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any which comes within the range or contemplation of Political Economy ; and rather than that so much as one of our fellow- countrymen should perish of hunger , no expense should be spar- ed to prevent a ... Political Economy of a Famine .
any which comes within the range or contemplation of Political Economy ; and rather than that so much as one of our fellow- countrymen should perish of hunger , no expense should be spar- ed to prevent a ... Political Economy of a Famine .
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Political Economy of a Famine . 249 respectfully implore in the name of their fellow - citizens , that the Government will , at all costs , at once adopt comprehensive , ener- getic , and above all immediate measures , to stay the ...
Political Economy of a Famine . 249 respectfully implore in the name of their fellow - citizens , that the Government will , at all costs , at once adopt comprehensive , ener- getic , and above all immediate measures , to stay the ...
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... Political Economy of a Famine . A famine may be either general , by which we do not mean a famine extending over the whole world , but over a whole country ; or it may be local , that is , a famine ... Political Economy of a Famine .
... Political Economy of a Famine . A famine may be either general , by which we do not mean a famine extending over the whole world , but over a whole country ; or it may be local , that is , a famine ... Political Economy of a Famine .
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Page 27 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 21 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 130 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch ' With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 31 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 41 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Page vi - HUNT.— RESEARCHES ON LIGHT : An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays : embracing all the known Photographic Processes, and new Discoveries in the Art By ROBERT HUNT, Keeper of Mining Records, Museum of Practical Geology.
Page 3 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 313 - I leave a mourning ring to my honoured and dear friends, and disinterested fellow labourers, the Rev. Messrs. John and Charles Wesley, in token of my indissoluble union with them, in heart and Christian affection, notwithstanding our difference in judgment about some particular points of doctrine."!
Page 179 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 119 - And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed : yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovelhat ; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.