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... collected the 2 largest libraries that had yet been seen in Ger- many . Their name was given to a street in Madrid , and " as rich as a Fugger " became a proverb . Upon the death of these 2 brothers the family divided into numerous ...
... collected the 2 largest libraries that had yet been seen in Ger- many . Their name was given to a street in Madrid , and " as rich as a Fugger " became a proverb . Upon the death of these 2 brothers the family divided into numerous ...
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... collected as delicious food , which many of them are . Badham states that the return of taxed mush- rooms in Rome during a period of 10 years gave a yearly average of between 60,000 and 80,000 lbs . weight , beside the untold quantity ...
... collected as delicious food , which many of them are . Badham states that the return of taxed mush- rooms in Rome during a period of 10 years gave a yearly average of between 60,000 and 80,000 lbs . weight , beside the untold quantity ...
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... collected the skins in abundance , and found an increas- ing demand for them with every new arrival from the mother country . Trinkets , liquors , and other articles sought for by the native tribes , were shipped to Quebec , and ...
... collected the skins in abundance , and found an increas- ing demand for them with every new arrival from the mother country . Trinkets , liquors , and other articles sought for by the native tribes , were shipped to Quebec , and ...
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... collected at St. Louis for 15 successive years , ending in 1804 , is stated to have been $ 203,750 . The number of deer skins was 158,000 ; beaver , 36,900 pounds ; otter , 8,000 ; bear , 5,100 skins ; and buffalo , which is now by far ...
... collected at St. Louis for 15 successive years , ending in 1804 , is stated to have been $ 203,750 . The number of deer skins was 158,000 ; beaver , 36,900 pounds ; otter , 8,000 ; bear , 5,100 skins ; and buffalo , which is now by far ...
Side 20
... collected at the mouth of the Columbia to China , returning with India goods to New York . He anticipated years of outlay , and by his articles of agreement was bound to furnish funds to the amount of $ 400,000 . A succession of ...
... collected at the mouth of the Columbia to China , returning with India goods to New York . He anticipated years of outlay , and by his articles of agreement was bound to furnish funds to the amount of $ 400,000 . A succession of ...
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Side 241 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Side 239 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Side 68 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Side 268 - Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it...
Side 174 - the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in my life.
Side 245 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Side 334 - I am fond of people, and that every one feels directly — young and old. I pass without pretension through the world, and that gratifies men. I never bemoralise any one — always seek out the good that is in them, and leave what is bad to him who made mankind, and knows how to round off the angles. In this way I make myself happy and comfortable.
Side 142 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Side 107 - He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.
Side 90 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors,