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... Ships , for 1839 .. Disasters at sea during the year 1839 . Shipwrecks on the coast of France .. The Hudson River .... Notice to Mariners .. Steam Navigation ... French Steam Navigation .. Light - house at the Peninsula of Jutland Lake ...
... Ships , for 1839 .. Disasters at sea during the year 1839 . Shipwrecks on the coast of France .. The Hudson River .... Notice to Mariners .. Steam Navigation ... French Steam Navigation .. Light - house at the Peninsula of Jutland Lake ...
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... ship . What can be more daring than the first conception of such a structure ! A combination of frail and perishable materials , thrown upon a strange and dangerous element , pathless , treacherous , and indomitable - and yet to which ...
... ship . What can be more daring than the first conception of such a structure ! A combination of frail and perishable materials , thrown upon a strange and dangerous element , pathless , treacherous , and indomitable - and yet to which ...
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... ship Argo antecedent to the siege of Troy - how immeasurable the distance ! how unspeakable the progress ! -to those floating palaces , complete in all things , which now weekly - between this land then undreamed of in any philosophy ...
... ship Argo antecedent to the siege of Troy - how immeasurable the distance ! how unspeakable the progress ! -to those floating palaces , complete in all things , which now weekly - between this land then undreamed of in any philosophy ...
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... ships , and stores , these martial efforts to rescue the Holy Land . Religion , too , constituted an important element in the expeditions fit- ted out at a later period , by Ferdinand and Isabella and their succes- sors , to visit the ...
... ships , and stores , these martial efforts to rescue the Holy Land . Religion , too , constituted an important element in the expeditions fit- ted out at a later period , by Ferdinand and Isabella and their succes- sors , to visit the ...
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... ship . He soon after , with his wife , visited England , where they were treated with royal honors ; but in which country they both contracted a fever that destroyed them . Owing to this calamity , and to a disputed succession , no ...
... ship . He soon after , with his wife , visited England , where they were treated with royal honors ; but in which country they both contracted a fever that destroyed them . Owing to this calamity , and to a disputed succession , no ...
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Página 13 - Brazil. 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 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' 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 serpent of the South. Falkland...
Página 93 - When in the progress of society, land of the second degree of fertility is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on that of the first quality, and the amount of that rent will depend on the difference in the quality of these two portions of land.
Página 522 - In case of the death of the wife, before the decease of her husband, the amount of the insurance may be made payable after her death to her children for their use, and to their guardian, if under age.
Página 172 - Esq., was called to the chair. The Minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved. The...
Página 13 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the Whale Fishery.
Página 243 - 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 246 - ... during the latter part of the last century and the beginning of the present.
Página 212 - 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 93 - If all land had the same properties, if it were unlimited in quantity, and uniform in quality, no charge could be made for its use, unless where it possessed peculiar advantages of situation. It is only, then, because land is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.