Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volumen 2F. Hunt, 1840 |
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... results . Hence the lais- sez nous faire , which was the despairing supplication of the French mer- chants to Colbert , who fancied he understood their interests better than they did themselves - is now an axiom universally received ...
... results . Hence the lais- sez nous faire , which was the despairing supplication of the French mer- chants to Colbert , who fancied he understood their interests better than they did themselves - is now an axiom universally received ...
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... result was a com- bination of machinery capable , like Heaven's lightning , of rending asun- der the gnarled oak ; or , as with the delicate finger of woman directing the cambric needle in its finest embroidery - now forging anchors for ...
... result was a com- bination of machinery capable , like Heaven's lightning , of rending asun- der the gnarled oak ; or , as with the delicate finger of woman directing the cambric needle in its finest embroidery - now forging anchors for ...
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... results were discernible from their efforts . Up to 1808 , they could not boast of having made a single convert , and disheartened at the pros- pect , they abandoned the region , leaving only a few of their number at Eimeo , a smaller ...
... results were discernible from their efforts . Up to 1808 , they could not boast of having made a single convert , and disheartened at the pros- pect , they abandoned the region , leaving only a few of their number at Eimeo , a smaller ...
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... result of a mingled apprehension of po- litical oppresssion and commercial restrictions : and , among all classes that nobly girded themselves for the apparently unequal contest of three millions of colonists , scattered thinly over a ...
... result of a mingled apprehension of po- litical oppresssion and commercial restrictions : and , among all classes that nobly girded themselves for the apparently unequal contest of three millions of colonists , scattered thinly over a ...
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... result of the legis- lative protection of a man against himself ; which , like most cases of intermeddling , defeats its own purposes . You will not allow him to pay seven per cent . for the money he wants , and which he might have ...
... result of the legis- lative protection of a man against himself ; which , like most cases of intermeddling , defeats its own purposes . You will not allow him to pay seven per cent . for the money he wants , and which he might have ...
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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.