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... sails will shine as a constellation among those bright and light- giving objects which men love to gaze and wonder at , and his name be en- rolled with those to which the earth pays a willing tribute of veneration and praise . The ...
... sails will shine as a constellation among those bright and light- giving objects which men love to gaze and wonder at , and his name be en- rolled with those to which the earth pays a willing tribute of veneration and praise . The ...
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... sailing them -the discovery of the magnetic needle , made by a navigator - the progress which has been made in the knowledge of meteorology ; of climates , currents , winds , and storms - the discovery and establishment of channels ...
... sailing them -the discovery of the magnetic needle , made by a navigator - the progress which has been made in the knowledge of meteorology ; of climates , currents , winds , and storms - the discovery and establishment of channels ...
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... sails , and those who calculate her latitude and hold the tiller , are all , and equally , indispensable to the success of the voyage ; and that the prosperity and the happiness of the whole company will be promoted and secured , just ...
... sails , and those who calculate her latitude and hold the tiller , are all , and equally , indispensable to the success of the voyage ; and that the prosperity and the happiness of the whole company will be promoted and secured , just ...
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... sails , how many warehouses would have closed their shutters , how many wheels , heavily laden with the products of indus- try , would have stood still , how many families would have been reduced to want , and without any advantage ...
... sails , how many warehouses would have closed their shutters , how many wheels , heavily laden with the products of indus- try , would have stood still , how many families would have been reduced to want , and without any advantage ...
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... sailing on his fourth voyage in 1799 , he was called on by Mr. Edward M. Blunt , then a noted publisher of charts ... sails from the ports of the United States , from Eastport to New Orleans , is navigated by the rules and tables of his ...
... sailing on his fourth voyage in 1799 , he was called on by Mr. Edward M. Blunt , then a noted publisher of charts ... sails from the ports of the United States , from Eastport to New Orleans , is navigated by the rules and tables of his ...
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Page 525 - Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Peters, 519, Mr. Chief Justice TANEY announcing the opinion of the court said: "It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 413 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 397 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 142 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Page 296 - Physician art thou ? one all eyes, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave...
Page 440 - In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As — -fail!
Page 537 - I have three thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we succeed in defending our firesides and homes, I may be remunerated; if we do not, the property will be of no value to me.
Page 168 - July next, the following gold coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be receivable in all payments by weight, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say : The gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two carats fine, at the rate of 94 cts.
Page 261 - One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, the Standard Measure of Capacity, as well for Liquids as for dry Goods not measured by Heaped Measure, shall be the Gallon., containing Ten Pounds Avoirdupois Weight of distilled Water weighed in Air, at the Temperature of Sixty two Degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, the Barometer being at Thirty Inches...
Page 275 - • An act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the Foreign Commerce of the United States...