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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... better , if they be sufficiently full and explicit ; but letters of friendship ought to be somewhat extended ; if they be very brief it is informing our corres- pondent that we do not choose to devote a mo- ment's attention to him or ...
... better , if they be sufficiently full and explicit ; but letters of friendship ought to be somewhat extended ; if they be very brief it is informing our corres- pondent that we do not choose to devote a mo- ment's attention to him or ...
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... better ) of profit . The papers , in opposition to the party we might have espoused , would , no doubt , have raised a devil ( this word devil is very useful in swelling out a period ) of a noise about ap . pointing a foreigner to an ...
... better ) of profit . The papers , in opposition to the party we might have espoused , would , no doubt , have raised a devil ( this word devil is very useful in swelling out a period ) of a noise about ap . pointing a foreigner to an ...
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... better , " said he , " so much the better ; if you be not tied by political principles , you are at liberty to choose the party from which you may ex- pect to derive the most profit . " We told him that he was again mistaken ; that we ...
... better , " said he , " so much the better ; if you be not tied by political principles , you are at liberty to choose the party from which you may ex- pect to derive the most profit . " We told him that he was again mistaken ; that we ...
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... better selection than they do . We have often had occasion to remark that the orator passes over excellent maxims of mor- ality in order to select a passage of scripture , which he conceives he can manage so as to draw certain ...
... better selection than they do . We have often had occasion to remark that the orator passes over excellent maxims of mor- ality in order to select a passage of scripture , which he conceives he can manage so as to draw certain ...
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... better for a man than that he should eat and drink ; and he adds , with rapturous exultation , " Who can eat or hasten hereunto more than I ? " A nice and accurate judge of literary works is said to be possessed of taste ; and when the ...
... better for a man than that he should eat and drink ; and he adds , with rapturous exultation , " Who can eat or hasten hereunto more than I ? " A nice and accurate judge of literary works is said to be possessed of taste ; and when the ...
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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.