The New-York Quarterly, Volym 3C. B. Norton, 1855 |
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... hundred and eleven millions annually , while in the United States the number is but ninety - six millions . What should make this vast disparity ? Why should they - where the bulk of the population is notoriously ignorant - so much so ...
... hundred and eleven millions annually , while in the United States the number is but ninety - six millions . What should make this vast disparity ? Why should they - where the bulk of the population is notoriously ignorant - so much so ...
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... hundred and eleven millions annually , while in the United States the number is but ninety - six millions . What should make this vast disparity ? Why should they - where the bulk of the population is notoriously ignorant - so much so ...
... hundred and eleven millions annually , while in the United States the number is but ninety - six millions . What should make this vast disparity ? Why should they - where the bulk of the population is notoriously ignorant - so much so ...
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... hundred years had accomplished previously . Bryan Tuke , the first English post- master - general , was appointed to the office by Henry VIII . , in 1516. His salary was £ 66 13s . 4d . The number of letters sent by mail at that time ...
... hundred years had accomplished previously . Bryan Tuke , the first English post- master - general , was appointed to the office by Henry VIII . , in 1516. His salary was £ 66 13s . 4d . The number of letters sent by mail at that time ...
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... hundred pounds a year between them , provided they could get it ! Franklin says : " The American post - office had hitherto never paid any thing to that of Britain . We were to have six hundred pounds a year between us , if we could ...
... hundred pounds a year between them , provided they could get it ! Franklin says : " The American post - office had hitherto never paid any thing to that of Britain . We were to have six hundred pounds a year between us , if we could ...
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... hundred pounds in debt to us . But it soon after began to repay us ; and before I was displaced by a freak of the Minister's , we had brought it to yield three times as much clear revenue to the Crown as the post - office in Ireland ...
... hundred pounds in debt to us . But it soon after began to repay us ; and before I was displaced by a freak of the Minister's , we had brought it to yield three times as much clear revenue to the Crown as the post - office in Ireland ...
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Sida 544 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Sida 143 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge Angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Sida 550 - Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be. is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs 2I Are strong with struggling.
Sida 546 - There have been holy men who hid themselves Deep in the woody wilderness, and gave Their lives to thought and prayer, till they outlived The generation born with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus.
Sida 514 - And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout, " God save our Lord the King ! " " And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your...
Sida 516 - It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk to see; Horatius in his harness, Halting upon one knee: And underneath is written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Sida 502 - I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Sida 313 - I found the Eastern States, notwithstanding their aversion to slavery, were very willing to indulge the Southern States at least with a temporary liberty to prosecute the slave-trade, provided the Southern States would, in their turn, gratify them by laying no restriction on navigation acts...
Sida 273 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Sida 516 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.