Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volumen 3F. Hunt, 1840 |
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... existence of an open sea leading to the mouth of Back's Great Fish River . This strait is ten miles wide at either extremity , but contracts to three in the centre . Even that narrow channel is much encroached on by high shingle islands ...
... existence of an open sea leading to the mouth of Back's Great Fish River . This strait is ten miles wide at either extremity , but contracts to three in the centre . Even that narrow channel is much encroached on by high shingle islands ...
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... existence with this number , with the pleasing as . surance , if the liberal encouragement we have received may be considered evidence , that we have not altogether failed to discharge the duties we have undertaken . There are many ...
... existence with this number , with the pleasing as . surance , if the liberal encouragement we have received may be considered evidence , that we have not altogether failed to discharge the duties we have undertaken . There are many ...
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... existence a large proportion of our national wealth and internal prosperity . We give it because it mirrors forth the events of an era , more remarkable for the production of imaginary and spectral schemes , by designing and visionary ...
... existence a large proportion of our national wealth and internal prosperity . We give it because it mirrors forth the events of an era , more remarkable for the production of imaginary and spectral schemes , by designing and visionary ...
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... existence . Men bankrupt in fortune , and ready to sacrifice truth to gain , were brought for- ward by the directors to substantiate the wild stories of Blunt's emissaries , and individuals were found base enough to confirm them by ...
... existence . Men bankrupt in fortune , and ready to sacrifice truth to gain , were brought for- ward by the directors to substantiate the wild stories of Blunt's emissaries , and individuals were found base enough to confirm them by ...
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... existence on every hand , and stocks of every conceivable name , nature , and description , were issued to an unparalleled extent . Not a day passed without the promulgation of new projects , recommended through the newspapers by ...
... existence on every hand , and stocks of every conceivable name , nature , and description , were issued to an unparalleled extent . Not a day passed without the promulgation of new projects , recommended through the newspapers by ...
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Página 504 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure...
Página 363 - 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 serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Página 331 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Página 363 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of 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...
Página 403 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Página 376 - And bended dolphins play ; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean...
Página 403 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página 461 - Washington within three months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this convention, and thereto affixed the seals of their arms.
Página 500 - Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Página 403 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.