Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to Amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania, December 22, 1837. In Support of an Amendment to Prohibit Banks from Issuing Notes of a Less Denomination Than Ten Dollars, as Offered by Mr. Read of SusquehannaJ. Wilbank, 1838 - 15 sidor |
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... interest is annihilated . They are merely a necessary part of the luxuri- ous establishment of their principal . We saw through the whole in a moment . It is therefore absolutely necessary that every rich man should be surrounded by ...
... interest is annihilated . They are merely a necessary part of the luxuri- ous establishment of their principal . We saw through the whole in a moment . It is therefore absolutely necessary that every rich man should be surrounded by ...
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... Interest or caprice dissolves the enchantment - we are miserable . But even our uneasiness hurries us on to make choice of a new friend . The blind confidence of youth is destroyed ; but the social principle remains , and forces us ...
... Interest or caprice dissolves the enchantment - we are miserable . But even our uneasiness hurries us on to make choice of a new friend . The blind confidence of youth is destroyed ; but the social principle remains , and forces us ...
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... interest , have been discarded ; but others , much more pernicious , have been guarded by our teachers as the " apple of their eye . " The crimes of the moderns are less glaring The ingenious author of the foregoing re- than those of ...
... interest , have been discarded ; but others , much more pernicious , have been guarded by our teachers as the " apple of their eye . " The crimes of the moderns are less glaring The ingenious author of the foregoing re- than those of ...
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... interest and pursues steadily the means that are ne cessary for the accomplishment of his purposes . But he must not be disturbed by any foolish qualms of conscience , or childish sympathizing sensations . No : his heart must be stone ...
... interest and pursues steadily the means that are ne cessary for the accomplishment of his purposes . But he must not be disturbed by any foolish qualms of conscience , or childish sympathizing sensations . No : his heart must be stone ...
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... ? And the man who has no respect for himself will be careless in the performance of duties that have no immediate connexion with his interest . From such considerations as the foregoing we deduce the conclusion 30 THE SAVAGE .
... ? And the man who has no respect for himself will be careless in the performance of duties that have no immediate connexion with his interest . From such considerations as the foregoing we deduce the conclusion 30 THE SAVAGE .
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Sida 9 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Sida 113 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Sida 80 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Sida 41 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Sida 2 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Sida 40 - And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Sida 10 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Sida 7 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings —yet the dead are there...
Sida 23 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator...
Sida 6 - ... of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the states respectively, on entering into the constitutional compact, which formed the union and as such are a manifest breach of faith, and a violation of the most solemn obligations, moral and religious.