Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 30,Nummer 1Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1856 |
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Pagina 31
... assured speculation , and as posts which attract to themselves without effort the currents of gold and silver from all enterprises , as the magnetic rock in the seas of the east was alleged to draw the nails SPECULATION AND TRADE . 31.
... assured speculation , and as posts which attract to themselves without effort the currents of gold and silver from all enterprises , as the magnetic rock in the seas of the east was alleged to draw the nails SPECULATION AND TRADE . 31.
Pagina 112
... silver mines of Laurium were worked with profit ; the gold mines of Thasos and Thrace became a fruitful source of public wealth ; and the special burthens ( the liturgies ) of the rich were discharged splendidly and with ease , in ...
... silver mines of Laurium were worked with profit ; the gold mines of Thasos and Thrace became a fruitful source of public wealth ; and the special burthens ( the liturgies ) of the rich were discharged splendidly and with ease , in ...
Pagina 158
... silver . We have no sym- pathy with that niggard and calculating spirit which weighs knowledge in the scales of a sordid policy ; and we blush to think that we should ever have deserved the indignant rebuke which the illustrious author ...
... silver . We have no sym- pathy with that niggard and calculating spirit which weighs knowledge in the scales of a sordid policy ; and we blush to think that we should ever have deserved the indignant rebuke which the illustrious author ...
Pagina 177
... silver , they encourage govern- ments to call in their old coins , and stamp them with new values , or to change one standard for another , thus wronging their credit- ors , and violating the contracts they have made with the people ...
... silver , they encourage govern- ments to call in their old coins , and stamp them with new values , or to change one standard for another , thus wronging their credit- ors , and violating the contracts they have made with the people ...
Pagina 178
... silver dollars . When these were carried to the mint of Paris , and melted down into bullion , and restamped as French coin , the gold made a larger number of francs than the silver . The same was true at London , where the two metals ...
... silver dollars . When these were carried to the mint of Paris , and melted down into bullion , and restamped as French coin , the gold made a larger number of francs than the silver . The same was true at London , where the two metals ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 76 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Pagina 175 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Pagina 76 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Pagina 155 - The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children may be taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it ; the master being partly but not wholly paid by the public ; because, if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business.
Pagina 70 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Pagina 223 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Pagina 10 - Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer ; and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them.
Pagina 180 - Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects. By Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, Eighteen Years a Missionary in Africa, and now one of the Secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. With numerous Engravings. 12mo, Muslin, $1 25.