The United States Democratic Review, Volume 19Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1846 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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... received constant accessions of French and Germans , who mix with and are finally lost in the swelling numbers of the whole mass . The British Islands have lost to some extent by emigration , and most of that which they have lost has ...
... received constant accessions of French and Germans , who mix with and are finally lost in the swelling numbers of the whole mass . The British Islands have lost to some extent by emigration , and most of that which they have lost has ...
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... receiving from abroad anything that could be converted into nutriment for the soil . The quan- tities exported , for periods of 25 years each , with the price at the close of each period , in Dantzic has been as follows : Wheat . bush ...
... receiving from abroad anything that could be converted into nutriment for the soil . The quan- tities exported , for periods of 25 years each , with the price at the close of each period , in Dantzic has been as follows : Wheat . bush ...
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... received 33 cents for the same length of time employed as when she received 32 cents for producing two pieces . Her extra exertion in producing the third piece is the increased profit of the mill- owner , who memorialises Congress for ...
... received 33 cents for the same length of time employed as when she received 32 cents for producing two pieces . Her extra exertion in producing the third piece is the increased profit of the mill- owner , who memorialises Congress for ...
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... received great improve- ment as connected with modern weapons , from the king of Prussia . The true principle of the latter was the discovery which Napoleon was born to make , and he conquered the European continent in developing it ...
... received great improve- ment as connected with modern weapons , from the king of Prussia . The true principle of the latter was the discovery which Napoleon was born to make , and he conquered the European continent in developing it ...
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... received their education , under the di- rection of a tutor appointed by the go- vernment . There is probably no country in the world where a subsistence is so easily procured as in Brazil . Mr. Kidder ob- serves , " that the stern ...
... received their education , under the di- rection of a tutor appointed by the go- vernment . There is probably no country in the world where a subsistence is so easily procured as in Brazil . Mr. Kidder ob- serves , " that the stern ...
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Page 285 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 320 - ... and the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained, or to repay the debt so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 335 - The Legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special charter for banking purposes; but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.
Page 320 - No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this State, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years next after the passage of such appropriation act...
Page 320 - In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the State may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in war; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 285 - That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints returned, Not for reflection of his face, But of his voice, the boy had burned.
Page 320 - ... and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Page 285 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 335 - Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and...
Page 153 - From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing Treaties and Conventions between...