Lives of American Merchants, المجلد 1Office of Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, 1856 |
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الصفحة x
... connection ; each can learn something of the other , and supply deficiencies by interchange of thought and friendly com munion . The man of contemplation is neighbor to the man of action ; abstraction leans against reality ; exact ...
... connection ; each can learn something of the other , and supply deficiencies by interchange of thought and friendly com munion . The man of contemplation is neighbor to the man of action ; abstraction leans against reality ; exact ...
الصفحة xi
... connection with civilization , and the influence it has had on society . It doubtless originated in the first wants of man , which he was unable to gratify without recourse to others . Wherever distinct property became acknowledged ...
... connection with civilization , and the influence it has had on society . It doubtless originated in the first wants of man , which he was unable to gratify without recourse to others . Wherever distinct property became acknowledged ...
الصفحة xv
... connecting them together , form his conclusion on the manners and customs of a people , who had attained a high refinement before the lowest grades of civilization had been reached by the savage tribes which roamed over the continent of ...
... connecting them together , form his conclusion on the manners and customs of a people , who had attained a high refinement before the lowest grades of civilization had been reached by the savage tribes which roamed over the continent of ...
الصفحة xviii
... connected them with the Red Sea and Persian Gulf . Palmyra , Balbec , Petra , Babylon , with other places of less note , owed their opulence and im- portance principally to this commerce . The merchant , as xviii INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
... connected them with the Red Sea and Persian Gulf . Palmyra , Balbec , Petra , Babylon , with other places of less note , owed their opulence and im- portance principally to this commerce . The merchant , as xviii INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
الصفحة xix
... connecting link between the eastern and western worlds , joined the shores of the Indian and Mediterranean seas in friendly relation . This vast internal commerce stretched through central India to the Ganges , and its path was marked ...
... connecting link between the eastern and western worlds , joined the shores of the Indian and Mediterranean seas in friendly relation . This vast internal commerce stretched through central India to the Ganges , and its path was marked ...
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الصفحة 126 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
الصفحة 244 - And, especially, I desire, that by every proper means a pure attachment to our republican institutions and to the sacred rights of conscience, as guaranteed by our happy constitutions, shall be formed and fostered in the minds of the scholars.
الصفحة 488 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
الصفحة 262 - Pennsylvania charged as aforesaid) unto the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Philadelphia their successors and assigns, in trust to and for the several uses intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say...
الصفحة xvii - ... whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed, in the third, having doubled the pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand.
الصفحة xxxii - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
الصفحة 473 - Because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him: and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
الصفحة 440 - Sure the last end Of the good man is peace! How calm his exit! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft.
الصفحة 269 - If the income, arising from that part of the said sum of two millions of dollars, remaining after the construction and furnishing of the college and out-buildings, shall, owing to the increase of the number of orphans applying for admission, or other cause...
الصفحة 272 - Laws, to cause Delaware Avenue, as above described, to be made, paved, curbed, and lighted; to cause the buildings, fences, and other obstructions now existing to be abated and removed; and to prohibit the creation of any such obstructions to the eastward of said Delaware Avenue; 2. Laws, to...