The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 20Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1847 - United States |
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... fact of this enhanced consumption of all articles . The increase , for nine months of 1846 over former years , amounts to 25 per cent . , and embraces as well tropical pro- ductions as imported animal food ; also , raw materials and ...
... fact of this enhanced consumption of all articles . The increase , for nine months of 1846 over former years , amounts to 25 per cent . , and embraces as well tropical pro- ductions as imported animal food ; also , raw materials and ...
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... fact that increased quantities , at lower prices , necessarily flow from the absence of that protection which ensures high prices to a restricted supply , is peculiarly manifest in the state of the shipping interest of the United States ...
... fact that increased quantities , at lower prices , necessarily flow from the absence of that protection which ensures high prices to a restricted supply , is peculiarly manifest in the state of the shipping interest of the United States ...
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... fact , that rocks which exhibit hundreds of feet of thickness at the Hudson River , have disappeared at the Niagara , and that the very rocks on which the Niagara pours its ocean of waters , have scarcely a representative among the ...
... fact , that rocks which exhibit hundreds of feet of thickness at the Hudson River , have disappeared at the Niagara , and that the very rocks on which the Niagara pours its ocean of waters , have scarcely a representative among the ...
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... fact , which goes to confirm the same opinion , that the American fall is constantly grow- ing more and more curved in its outline . In 1678 , Father Henepin visited Niagara , and made a drawing of it , which Mr. Hall has kindly ...
... fact , which goes to confirm the same opinion , that the American fall is constantly grow- ing more and more curved in its outline . In 1678 , Father Henepin visited Niagara , and made a drawing of it , which Mr. Hall has kindly ...
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compute the age of Niagara Falls . But it is a fact , that within that period , as we have already hinted , the character of the fauna of the world has scarcely changed ; the same animals having peopled the fresh water sea , which ...
compute the age of Niagara Falls . But it is a fact , that within that period , as we have already hinted , the character of the fauna of the world has scarcely changed ; the same animals having peopled the fresh water sea , which ...
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Page 207 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 264 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 91 - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Page 205 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 166 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 268 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 191 - The Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts, and to Manufactures and Agriculture.
Page 123 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 431 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 207 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.