Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volumen 2F. Hunt, 1840 |
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... character and talent , and is of as much dignity and usefulness , as any other pursuit or profession , and the sense- * A lecture delivered before the Mercantile Library Association , by Charles King , Esq . , and now first published in ...
... character and talent , and is of as much dignity and usefulness , as any other pursuit or profession , and the sense- * A lecture delivered before the Mercantile Library Association , by Charles King , Esq . , and now first published in ...
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... character , and the talent which have been hitherto directed too exclusively to agriculture and the learned professions ? It is the deliber- ate opinion of the committee that no one change could be made in our pursuits , that would so ...
... character , and the talent which have been hitherto directed too exclusively to agriculture and the learned professions ? It is the deliber- ate opinion of the committee that no one change could be made in our pursuits , that would so ...
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... character and the hopes of the free laborer and artisan . Bound no longer to the soil , nor forced from the cradle to the grave to labor on it for the benefit of a master , in the immunities of these cities , the freeman recovered the ...
... character and the hopes of the free laborer and artisan . Bound no longer to the soil , nor forced from the cradle to the grave to labor on it for the benefit of a master , in the immunities of these cities , the freeman recovered the ...
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... character and honor of the profession which looks upon a stain on one of its members as an impu- tation upon all ; and which imparts unity of purpose and efficiency of ac- tion in all matters connected with its interests or reputation ...
... character and honor of the profession which looks upon a stain on one of its members as an impu- tation upon all ; and which imparts unity of purpose and efficiency of ac- tion in all matters connected with its interests or reputation ...
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... character , but to the interests of the pro- fession , is this unity of feeling and sentiment important . The merchants , as a body , are comparatively less felt , in our political relations , for in- stance , than any other class of ...
... character , but to the interests of the pro- fession , is this unity of feeling and sentiment important . The merchants , as a body , are comparatively less felt , in our political relations , for in- stance , than any other class of ...
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Página 13 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south.
Página 168 - Esq., was called to the chair. The Minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved. The...
Página 13 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 428 - If the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nations, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished.
Página 242 - ... during the latter part of the last century and the beginning of the present.
Página 239 - are not insurances of the specific things mentioned to be insured, nor do such insurances attach on the realty, or in any manner go with the same as incident thereto by any conveyance or assignment, but they are only special agreements with the persons insuring against such loss or damage as they may sustain.
Página 208 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 480 - Capias, or capias ad satisfaciendum, or sue forth any other kind of execution on the judgment, as if the body of such prisoner had never been taken in execution.
Página 13 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 510 - All vessels which may clear with registers for the purpose of engaging in the whale fishery shall be deemed to have lawful and sufficient papers for such voyages, securing the privileges and rights of registered vessels, and the privileges and exemptions of vessels enrolled and licensed for the fisheries.