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... favour in all countries in mediæval times . The avowed object of that system was to promote importations of the precious metals . That was the grand object of our legislators in olden times . The wealth of a country in their estimation ...
... favour in all countries in mediæval times . The avowed object of that system was to promote importations of the precious metals . That was the grand object of our legislators in olden times . The wealth of a country in their estimation ...
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... favour - when specie is flowing in and accumulating , and when there is no need to send it out . While lessening the pressure upon banks in exceptional times ( now unfortunately becoming more frequent than ever ) , and furnishing the ...
... favour - when specie is flowing in and accumulating , and when there is no need to send it out . While lessening the pressure upon banks in exceptional times ( now unfortunately becoming more frequent than ever ) , and furnishing the ...
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... favour . Nor is it easy to conceive any circumstances which would induce a man to demand specie from the bank for the purpose of export to any part of Europe if he could get an international draft instead . Suppose , for example , that ...
... favour . Nor is it easy to conceive any circumstances which would induce a man to demand specie from the bank for the purpose of export to any part of Europe if he could get an international draft instead . Suppose , for example , that ...
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... favour of the Bank of Eng- land by the Act of 1844 , the monopoly practically possessed by the Bank of England is growing stronger every year . We have seen that the War of the Banks is mainly , if not wholly , occasioned by the action ...
... favour of the Bank of Eng- land by the Act of 1844 , the monopoly practically possessed by the Bank of England is growing stronger every year . We have seen that the War of the Banks is mainly , if not wholly , occasioned by the action ...
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... favour of the supposition . The Countess died in 1363 , only four years after the period of the Account , and nothing would be more likely than that the principal lady of her household , and probably favourite companion , should have ...
... favour of the supposition . The Countess died in 1363 , only four years after the period of the Account , and nothing would be more likely than that the principal lady of her household , and probably favourite companion , should have ...
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Page 548 - O Captain! My Captain! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 542 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 540 - Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love...
Page 775 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory...
Page 825 - These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species —that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Page 775 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 540 - I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose ? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
Page 548 - ... their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 776 - As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden, from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts...
Page 493 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.