De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Volume 7James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell J. D. B. DeBow., 1850 |
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... wealth of , 40 . swamp , 53 . Mobile and Ohio railroad , 89 . Mechanics ' Institute , South Carolina , 92 . Mississippi river and valley , 103 . Money , value of , 123 . Manufactures , by steam or water power , 128 . Massachusetts ...
... wealth of , 40 . swamp , 53 . Mobile and Ohio railroad , 89 . Mechanics ' Institute , South Carolina , 92 . Mississippi river and valley , 103 . Money , value of , 123 . Manufactures , by steam or water power , 128 . Massachusetts ...
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... wealth , and to the world a supply of the precious metals which shall exceed all the " Orient Ind , " in the days of Solo- mon or since , has yielded from its prolific bowels , or has been searched to where the " sunny fountains " of ...
... wealth , and to the world a supply of the precious metals which shall exceed all the " Orient Ind , " in the days of Solo- mon or since , has yielded from its prolific bowels , or has been searched to where the " sunny fountains " of ...
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... wealth which they brought . Spain , on the contrary , still sought the nearer route , and ex- plored the American continent , in the hope of finding some strait or channel through it to India . She sought in vain in the extreme North ...
... wealth which they brought . Spain , on the contrary , still sought the nearer route , and ex- plored the American continent , in the hope of finding some strait or channel through it to India . She sought in vain in the extreme North ...
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... wealth and dominion with it ? Look at its ancient channels , and the cities which it raised into kingdoms , and the populations which upon its treasures became resplendent in science , learning , and the arts . Tyre , Sidon , Bal- bec ...
... wealth and dominion with it ? Look at its ancient channels , and the cities which it raised into kingdoms , and the populations which upon its treasures became resplendent in science , learning , and the arts . Tyre , Sidon , Bal- bec ...
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... wealth and prosperity never so universal among us . We all know the extraordinary stimulus which was given to Brit- ish industry , and the prodigious strides that were made by that empire when the wars of Napoleon were causing her an ...
... wealth and prosperity never so universal among us . We all know the extraordinary stimulus which was given to Brit- ish industry , and the prodigious strides that were made by that empire when the wars of Napoleon were causing her an ...
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Página 232 - 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 hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 290 - 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.
Página 232 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 232 - 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.
Página 231 - 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.
Página 490 - ... question. But it is said that the licentiousness consists in the constant intercourse between white males and colored females. One of your heavy charges against us has been that we regard and treat these people as brutes; you now charge us with habitually taking them to our bosoms. I will not comment on the inconsistency of these accusations. I will not deny that some intercourse of the sort does take place. Its character and extent, however, are grossly and attrociously exaggerated.
Página 344 - Philadelphia, under the name of the "Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts...
Página 189 - ... a seat for one of the girls ; and the offer was sure to be accepted. In the midst of this hilarity the bride and groom were not forgotten. Pretty late in the night some one would remind the company that the new couple must stand in need of some refreshment; black Betty, which was the name of the bottle, was called for.
Página 496 - ... thought proper to chastise your son. So it is with the negro, and the negro father. As to chains and irons, they are rarely used; never, I believe, except in cases of running away. You will admit that if we pretend to own slaves, they must not be permitted to abscond whenever they see fit; and that if nothing else will prevent it, these means must be resorted to.
Página 286 - The evils of it, however, it may be fairly presumed, are greatly exaggerated. And if I might judge of the truth of transactions stated as occurring in this trade, by that of those reported as transpiring among us, I should not hesitate to say, that a large proportion of the stories in circulation are unfounded, and most of the remainder highly colored. On the passage of the Act of Parliament prohibiting this trade to British subjects rests, what you esteem, the glory of your life. It required twenty...