Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, Instituted in the State of New York, Volum 1,Deler 1-2

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Side 137 - Arranging them under the radical ones to which they may be palpably traced, and doing the same by those of the red men of Asia, there will be found probably twenty in America, for one in Asia, of those radical languages, so called because if they were ever the same they have lost all resemblance to one another.
Side 137 - A separation into dialects may be the work of a few ages only, but for two dialects to recede from one another, till they have lost all vestiges of their common origin, must require an immense course of time ; perhaps not less than many people give to the age of the earth. A greater number of those radical changes of language having taken place among the red men of America, proves them of greater antiquity than those of Asia.
Side 126 - Charter, shall for ever hereafter be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name and style " THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN AMERICA...
Side 126 - Junior, and such other persons, as shall from time to time become members of the said society shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name of The Society for the promotion of agriculture, arts and manufactures...
Side 126 - ... are propagated amongst us, and promoting the culture of others, which have been found useful in other parts, and for the improvement of field husbandry in general; and to introduce as far as circumstances may render proper, an emulation for the establishment of useful arts and manufactures in those parts of the State where they can be beneficially carried on. That the petitioners conceive it would greatly conduce to advance the important ends of their association, if they were authorized to act...
Side 126 - ... to purchase, take, receive, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors, any real estate in fee simple, or for term of life or lives, or otherwise ; and any goods, chattels, or personal estate, for the purpose of enabling them the better to carry into execution, encourage and promote such measures as may tend to promote agriculture, arts and manufactures in this state...
Side 126 - ... constitutions, ordinances and regulations as they shall judge proper for the election of their officers, for the election or admission of new members of the said corporation, and the terms and manner of admission, for the better government and regulation of their officers and members, for fixing the times and places of the meeting of the said corporation, and for regulating all the affairs and business of the said corporation.
Side 126 - ... which in other countries have accrued from the institution of societies for the purpose of encouraging those great objects, have voluntarily associated themselves, with a view of collecting from different parts of the State the different modes of agriculture that are in practice, to suggest such improvements as may be found to be beneficial ; to excite among their fellow citizens a spirit of making experiments for the amelioration of lands, which have been exhausted or in their natural state...
Side xxxiii - The President, William Samuel Johnson, LLD., Is Lecturing in Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, and Instructs the students in the Grammar and proper pronunciation of the English Language, on the plan of Webster's and Lowth's Grammars, and Sheridan's Rhetorical Grammar. In Rhetoric, on the plan of Holme's and Stirling's Rhetoric ... a complete course of instruction in ... the English Language in particular ; In the art of writing and speaking it with propriety, elegance and force.
Side 7 - ... and exhausted of its richness, shall be too weak of itself, to make plants grow with their former luxuriance.

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