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... trade British free - trade system 844 846 . 611 · Carey Mr. W. P. , his estimate of Washing- Foreign trade of the United States . Commerce in human progress 847 866 ton .856 Babylonian . 868 man . Chamberlain Joseph , English radical ...
... trade British free - trade system 844 846 . 611 · Carey Mr. W. P. , his estimate of Washing- Foreign trade of the United States . Commerce in human progress 847 866 ton .856 Babylonian . 868 man . Chamberlain Joseph , English radical ...
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... trade center of Babylo- Faithfull , death of Miss Emily 204 Faraday , his electrical views not yet justly nians Harrison , Ex - President , on reconstruction 870 recognized . 13 , 14 782-786 Failed to apply his electrical knowledge to ...
... trade center of Babylo- Faithfull , death of Miss Emily 204 Faraday , his electrical views not yet justly nians Harrison , Ex - President , on reconstruction 870 recognized . 13 , 14 782-786 Failed to apply his electrical knowledge to ...
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... trade . The largest advertisers at last appealed to the busi- ness offices of the hysterical newspapers , and demonstrated to them that trade was in jeop- ardy . The expected result followed . The cholera news disappeared from the front ...
... trade . The largest advertisers at last appealed to the busi- ness offices of the hysterical newspapers , and demonstrated to them that trade was in jeop- ardy . The expected result followed . The cholera news disappeared from the front ...
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... trade and haughty and indolent Spaniards had willingly left what they considered degrading employ- ments to their inferiors . The Moors had intro- duced into Spain the cultivation of sugar , cot- ton , rice , and silk . They had ...
... trade and haughty and indolent Spaniards had willingly left what they considered degrading employ- ments to their inferiors . The Moors had intro- duced into Spain the cultivation of sugar , cot- ton , rice , and silk . They had ...
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... trades , arts , and profes- sions that can offer them employment , and for every good plan that can perfect their moral , physical , and intellectual well - being - consum- mation to be devoutly wished . Nor is the exhibition of woman's ...
... trades , arts , and profes- sions that can offer them employment , and for every good plan that can perfect their moral , physical , and intellectual well - being - consum- mation to be devoutly wished . Nor is the exhibition of woman's ...
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Page 623 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 562 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 565 - ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from, those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 879 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 880 - Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, till there be no place, That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Page 879 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 680 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 434 - The second * day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to' be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 913 - All this may be ; the people's voice is odd ; It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Page 690 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any like him.