The North American Review, Volumen58Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1844 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... charter of that institution would expire , local banks were chartered all over the country . In seven years , from 1830 to 1837 , the nominal capital of these banks was increas- ed from one hundred and ten millions of dollars to two ...
... charter of that institution would expire , local banks were chartered all over the country . In seven years , from 1830 to 1837 , the nominal capital of these banks was increas- ed from one hundred and ten millions of dollars to two ...
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... charter , that the directors might borrow $ 15,500,000 ; and that the Governor might issue seven thousand five hundred bonds , for $ 2000 each , bearing five per cent . interest , and redeemable in twelve , eighteen , and twenty years ...
... charter , that the directors might borrow $ 15,500,000 ; and that the Governor might issue seven thousand five hundred bonds , for $ 2000 each , bearing five per cent . interest , and redeemable in twelve , eighteen , and twenty years ...
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... charter , and any other construction would render the restriction itself nugatory ; since , by allowing the interest to accumulate long enough , the commissioners would have had it in their power to obtain $ 5,000,000 for the bonds ...
... charter , and any other construction would render the restriction itself nugatory ; since , by allowing the interest to accumulate long enough , the commissioners would have had it in their power to obtain $ 5,000,000 for the bonds ...
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... charter , reflecting the highest credit on the Commissioners , and bringing timely aid to an embarrassed community . " The next legislature , which assembled in 1840 , appointed a committee on the affairs of the bank , but uttered not ...
... charter , reflecting the highest credit on the Commissioners , and bringing timely aid to an embarrassed community . " The next legislature , which assembled in 1840 , appointed a committee on the affairs of the bank , but uttered not ...
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... charter.frontiers . As already observed , the Council of Plymouth had tres- passed upon the rights of Gorges , their own oldest gran- tee ; and to ascertain and quiet the pretensions of the sub- sequent grantees , their heirs , and the ...
... charter.frontiers . As already observed , the Council of Plymouth had tres- passed upon the rights of Gorges , their own oldest gran- tee ; and to ascertain and quiet the pretensions of the sub- sequent grantees , their heirs , and the ...
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Página 298 - The rich man's son inherits cares ? The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn ; A heritage, it seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
Página 428 - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you, to be our greatest glory, and our greatest happiness...
Página 25 - Once as I told in glee Tales of the stormy sea, Soft eyes did gaze on me, Burning yet tender ; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor.
Página 299 - O, poor man's son ! scorn not thy state ; There is worse weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great ; Toil only gives the soul to shine, And makes rest fragrant and benign ; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in fee.
Página 25 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 422 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 422 - Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 11 - The quiet grave-yard — some lie there — And cruel Ocean has his share ; We're not all here. We are all here ! Even they, the dead — though dead, so dear, Fond Memory, to her duty true, Brings back their faded forms to view.
Página 432 - Why may not illicit combinations, for purposes of violence, be formed as well by a majority of a State, especially a small State, as by a majority of a county or a district of the same State; and if the authority of the State ought in the latter case to protect the local magistracy, ought not the Federal authority, in the former, to support the State authority?
Página 382 - Assembly, as they shall think fit; and to choose, nominate and appoint, such and so many other persons as they shall think fit, and shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said Company and body politic, and them into the same to admit...