The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature, Volumer 1-2Robert Walsh Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817 |
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... currency with which a bill of exchange on England can be paid . Twenty - three francs are now given for one pound sterling , which formerly sold for not more than sixteen francs . Still we all know , in 1816 , that the bank of England ...
... currency with which a bill of exchange on England can be paid . Twenty - three francs are now given for one pound sterling , which formerly sold for not more than sixteen francs . Still we all know , in 1816 , that the bank of England ...
Side 107
... pound sterling , instead of giv ing twenty - four francs French for the pound sterling , which he was to remit for the goods , he had to pay at most , eighteen francs , so that he could well agree to make no profit on the goods ; nay ...
... pound sterling , instead of giv ing twenty - four francs French for the pound sterling , which he was to remit for the goods , he had to pay at most , eighteen francs , so that he could well agree to make no profit on the goods ; nay ...
Side 116
... pounds sterling in specie of the quality and weight . determined by law . There are no bank notes below the sum of one pound sterling . Still as people are in need of small change for every day trans- actions , and a dread is ...
... pounds sterling in specie of the quality and weight . determined by law . There are no bank notes below the sum of one pound sterling . Still as people are in need of small change for every day trans- actions , and a dread is ...
Side 117
... pound sterling one might buy a pound sterling in gold or silver of the quantity and weight pre- scribed by law . I say that bank notes would be at par owing to the indispensable necessity , in a complicated social state in which an ...
... pound sterling one might buy a pound sterling in gold or silver of the quantity and weight pre- scribed by law . I say that bank notes would be at par owing to the indispensable necessity , in a complicated social state in which an ...
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The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics ..., Volumer 1-2 Robert Walsh Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1817 |
The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and ..., Volum 2 Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1817 |
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Side 267 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Side ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Side 212 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish...
Side 159 - ... parallel of north latitude, then that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said parallel, shall be the line of demarcation between the territories of the United States and those of His Britannic Majesty, and that the said line shall form the northern boundary of the said territories of the United States, and the southern...
Side 217 - I love true glory. It is this sentiment which ought to be cherished; and, in spite of cavils, and sneers, and attempts to put it down, it will finally conduct this nation to that height to which God and nature have destined it.
Side 216 - Within the limits of the United States, as defined by the treaty of 1783, and...
Side 133 - The southern boundary of the United States, which divides their territory from the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the River Mississippi, at the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of latitude...
Side 213 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Side 213 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.
Side 280 - Nobody ever painted as he has done the facility of self-deception, the half self-conscious hypocrisy towards ourselves, with which even noble minds attempt to disguise the almost inevitable influence of selfish motives in human nature. This secret irony of the characterization is deserving of admiration as a storehouse of acuteness and sagacity; but it is the grave of enthusiasm.