The North American Review, Volume 33O. Everett, 1831 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Effects of Private and Government Paper Money , delivered before the University of Oxford in Trinity Term , 1829. By the same . 8vo . pp . 103. London . 1830 . The author of these works appears before the public under the imposing ...
... Effects of Private and Government Paper Money , delivered before the University of Oxford in Trinity Term , 1829. By the same . 8vo . pp . 103. London . 1830 . The author of these works appears before the public under the imposing ...
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... effect for the advancement of knowledge , and the permanent satisfaction and reputation of their owner , than in ... effects that result from its increase and diminution , have been for many years past regarded , and with justice , as ...
... effect for the advancement of knowledge , and the permanent satisfaction and reputation of their owner , than in ... effects that result from its increase and diminution , have been for many years past regarded , and with justice , as ...
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... effect of this change is often to reduce instead of raising the cost of provisions . Thus , the manufacturers of the interior of New England are able , at the present moment , to obtain the grain of the Middle States at a less cost than ...
... effect of this change is often to reduce instead of raising the cost of provisions . Thus , the manufacturers of the interior of New England are able , at the present moment , to obtain the grain of the Middle States at a less cost than ...
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... effect of an increase in the skill or natural advantages under which labor is applied , is to render its products more abund- ant , but not to raise their value in comparison 16 [ July , The Laws of Population and Wages .
... effect of an increase in the skill or natural advantages under which labor is applied , is to render its products more abund- ant , but not to raise their value in comparison 16 [ July , The Laws of Population and Wages .
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... effect is not to raise the rate of wages , but to reduce the value of cotton cloth . In the same way , if , in consequence of the cultivation of new soils of a superior quality , the same amount of labor , which before brought into ...
... effect is not to raise the rate of wages , but to reduce the value of cotton cloth . In the same way , if , in consequence of the cultivation of new soils of a superior quality , the same amount of labor , which before brought into ...
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Page 259 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz.: that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of Saint Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 142 - If courts were permitted to indulge their sympathies, a case better calculated to excite them can scarcely be imagined. A people once numerous, powerful, and truly independent, found by our ancestors in the quiet and uncontrolled possession of an ample domain, gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts, and our arms, have yielded their lands by successive treaties, each of which contains a solemn guarantee of the residue, until they retain no more of their formerly extensive territory...
Page 245 - ... this day — it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man, and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 140 - regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 291 - Nor I alone — a thousand bosoms round / Inhale thee in the fulness of delight ; And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound Livelier, at coming of the wind of night ; And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound, Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight. Go forth into the gathering shade ; go forth, God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth...
Page 260 - to the westward, although our said province hath " anciently extended, and doth of right extend, as " far as the River Pentagoet or Penobscot, it shall "be bounded by a line drawn from Cape Sable " across the entrance of the Bay of Fundy to the " mouth of the River St. Croix, by the said river to " its source, and by a line drawn due north from "thence to the [southern boundary of our Colony
Page 129 - No Newton, by silent meditation, now discovers the system of the world from the falling of an apple; but some quite other than Newton stands in his Museum, his Scientific Institution, and behind whole batteries of retorts, digesters, and galvanic piles imperatively ' interrogates Nature,' —who, however, shows no haste to answer.
Page 188 - My lords and gentlemen, I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. ' I have been induced to resort to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people...
Page 291 - Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow. Go — but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of Nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range, Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more ; Sweet odors in the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore ; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
Page 301 - The Spring is here,— the delicate-footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers ; And with it comes a thirst to be away, Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous hours, — A feeling that is like a sense of wings, Restless to soar above these perishing things.