De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, Svazek 7

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James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
J.D.B. De Bow, 1850
 

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Strana 236 - 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.
Strana 468 - John Clark and others, eighteen in number, disgusted with religious differences in Massachusetts, purchased a small island from the natives, which afterward came to be known as Rhode Island. The fertility of the soil and the pleasantness of the climate soon attracted many people to their settlement. In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman, in the service of the Dutch, following the track of the Cabots a century before, landed on Manhattan Island. Fifty-five years after, the Dutch colony which had made...
Strana 235 - Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties, the desire of supplying their mutual wants.
Strana 236 - 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...
Strana 307 - The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way." It cannot be said that the excessive mortality among the males of the North is owing to their unwholesome employments. For the females are employed in similar or more destructive avocations. In Massachusetts about fifty thousand women work in factories, and yet in that State there is an excess of 7,672...
Strana 232 - Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man,— How can thy words from balmy slumber start Reposing Virtue, pillow'd on the heart!
Strana 552 - ... the passage of a law, by the Congress of the United States, directing the Postmaster General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Navy, to make annual contracts for the transportation of the mails, troops, and military and naval...
Strana 294 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Strana 505 - It is the compensation which the borrower pays to the lender, for the profit which he has an opportunity of making by the use of the money. Part of that profit naturally belongs to the borrower, who runs the risk and takes the trouble of employing it ; and part to the lender, who affords him the opportunity of making this profit.
Strana 483 - Such a state of absolute sovereignty on the one hand, and of absolute dependence on the other, is not congenial with the free and independent spirit of our native institutions; and the establishment of distant territorial governments, ruled according to will and pleasure, would have a very natural tendency, as all proconsular governments have had, to abuse and oppression.

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