To-day, Volume 1J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose J. Morrison-Fuller., 1890 |
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... regard to shorter voyages . He did not mention the fact that this subsidy would also discriminate in favor of some ports the discrimination being just the reverse of that in the former case . He seems to be right in claiming that some ...
... regard to shorter voyages . He did not mention the fact that this subsidy would also discriminate in favor of some ports the discrimination being just the reverse of that in the former case . He seems to be right in claiming that some ...
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... regard the low price of anything as an evil , while the low price of corn must be viewed as a disease that will very likely prove fatal to the nation . A generation cannot grow up to manhood and middle age under the influence of an ...
... regard the low price of anything as an evil , while the low price of corn must be viewed as a disease that will very likely prove fatal to the nation . A generation cannot grow up to manhood and middle age under the influence of an ...
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... regard Socialism as the excess of Government and Anarchy as the defect . What he would regard as the mean it is by not at all easy to say probably not exactly the course pursued by present governments , however . It seems as if our ...
... regard Socialism as the excess of Government and Anarchy as the defect . What he would regard as the mean it is by not at all easy to say probably not exactly the course pursued by present governments , however . It seems as if our ...
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... regard to the consumption of the latter , the estimate of Mr. Barret , editor of the American Grocer , is suggestive : -the spirits , beer , and wine , taking the average from 1883 to 1887 , cost the consumers a little less than $ 12 To ...
... regard to the consumption of the latter , the estimate of Mr. Barret , editor of the American Grocer , is suggestive : -the spirits , beer , and wine , taking the average from 1883 to 1887 , cost the consumers a little less than $ 12 To ...
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... regards the individual , as regards nations , or as regards the race , is tragic ; and tragic because the tragedy is due , not to man's vices , but to his virtues Were it due to his vices , the Human Tragedy would not be inevitable ...
... regards the individual , as regards nations , or as regards the race , is tragic ; and tragic because the tragedy is due , not to man's vices , but to his virtues Were it due to his vices , the Human Tragedy would not be inevitable ...
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Page 153 - Wiser, may a beneficent instinct lead and impel thee to 'conquer' me, to command me! If thou do know better than I what is good and right, I conjure thee in the name of God, force me to do it ; were it by never such brass collars, whips and handcuffs, leave me not to walk over precipices ! That I have been called, by all the Newspapers, a ' free man' will avail me little, if my pilgrimage have ended in death and wreck.
Page 106 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 65 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee. tea and hides, raw and uncurcd. or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Page 65 - ... into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the product of...
Page 100 - For as old sinners have all points 0' th' compass in their bones and joints ; Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind ; And, better than by Napier's bones, Feel in their own the age of moons...
Page 65 - States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty...
Page 49 - ... shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
Page 18 - Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
Page 102 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Page 100 - So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy, That, to trepan the one to think The other blind, both strove to blink: And in his dark pragmatic way As busy as a child at play. H...