America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive: By J. S. Buckingham, Volume 3Fisher, Son & Company, 1841 - Atlantic States |
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... least 200,000,000 of dollars in value . The experience of other nations will show that this amount is not over estimated . The food produced in England alone in the 1835 , by an agricultural population of about eight millions , was ...
... least 200,000,000 of dollars in value . The experience of other nations will show that this amount is not over estimated . The food produced in England alone in the 1835 , by an agricultural population of about eight millions , was ...
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... ing year . The water - power for flour - mills is here capable of being made a source of employment to 10,000 persons at least . The manufacture of steam- COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES . 9 engines for the Western lakes , 8 BUFFALO .
... ing year . The water - power for flour - mills is here capable of being made a source of employment to 10,000 persons at least . The manufacture of steam- COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES . 9 engines for the Western lakes , 8 BUFFALO .
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... best attended of any at which we had yet sat , though this was the feature in which it was least excellent ; and all its subordinate appointments were POPULATION . 13 well maintained . If good cooks could. 12 AMERICAN HOTEL .
... best attended of any at which we had yet sat , though this was the feature in which it was least excellent ; and all its subordinate appointments were POPULATION . 13 well maintained . If good cooks could. 12 AMERICAN HOTEL .
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... the larger cities , and therefore , to us at least , they were far more agreeable . Among the buildings projected here , but not yet completed , is a chartered University , to be called , " The University of Western New York , " and.
... the larger cities , and therefore , to us at least , they were far more agreeable . Among the buildings projected here , but not yet completed , is a chartered University , to be called , " The University of Western New York , " and.
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... least admire the scale of this edifice as to size : it was estimated to cost 5,000,000 of dollars , or upwards of a million sterling ; and but for the recent derangement of all monetary operations , the sum would have been raised , and ...
... least admire the scale of this edifice as to size : it was estimated to cost 5,000,000 of dollars , or upwards of a million sterling ; and but for the recent derangement of all monetary operations , the sum would have been raised , and ...
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Page 509 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 277 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 446 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 270 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Page 270 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Page 276 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 242 - The whole earth is the Lord's garden, and he hath given it to the sons of Adam, to be tilled and improved by them; why then should we stand starving here for places of habitation, and in the mean time suffer whole countries, as profitable for the use of man, to lie waste without any improvement?
Page 271 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that country.
Page 278 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 277 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.