Lives of American Merchants, المجلد 1Office of Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, 1856 |
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الصفحة iii
... wealth has equalled that of princes , whose interests have become a chief concern of statesmen , and have involved the issues of peace and war ; whose affairs afford a leading subject of the legislation of States , and fill the largest ...
... wealth has equalled that of princes , whose interests have become a chief concern of statesmen , and have involved the issues of peace and war ; whose affairs afford a leading subject of the legislation of States , and fill the largest ...
الصفحة ix
... wealth . They are made , not merely for the actual necessities and artificial requirements of society , but they bring , from strange lands , new objects for investigation , and suggestions which give encouragement to thought . The man ...
... wealth . They are made , not merely for the actual necessities and artificial requirements of society , but they bring , from strange lands , new objects for investigation , and suggestions which give encouragement to thought . The man ...
الصفحة xv
... wealth has been poured in abundance on all lands . Arabia , Ethiopia , Egypt , in regular succession , felt her bounty ; Persia , Assyria , Greece , Carthage , Rome , whatever is known to us of antiquity , or is regarded with reverence ...
... wealth has been poured in abundance on all lands . Arabia , Ethiopia , Egypt , in regular succession , felt her bounty ; Persia , Assyria , Greece , Carthage , Rome , whatever is known to us of antiquity , or is regarded with reverence ...
الصفحة xvi
... wealth on the giver , -looked only to India . And when the long sought , yet unseen , land lay in darkness before him , in the watch of that endless night , till at last , through the gray mist , came slowly forth the faint outline of ...
... wealth on the giver , -looked only to India . And when the long sought , yet unseen , land lay in darkness before him , in the watch of that endless night , till at last , through the gray mist , came slowly forth the faint outline of ...
الصفحة xx
... wealth of barbarian lands , made familiar to her merchant and navigator by unwearied exertion , and contempt of danger . She competed with Phoenicia in traffic by sea , and they jointly guarded most carefully their geographical ...
... wealth of barbarian lands , made familiar to her merchant and navigator by unwearied exertion , and contempt of danger . She competed with Phoenicia in traffic by sea , and they jointly guarded most carefully their geographical ...
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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...