Readings in the Economic History of the United States

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1924 - 862 páginas

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Página 329 - ... shocks in its passage over these rocky heights) with two small horses; sometimes a cow or two, comprises their all ; excepting a little store of hard-earned cash for the land office of the district...
Página 64 - The same course that is taken in England, out of towns ; every man, according to his ability, instructing his children. We have 48 parishes ; and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less. But...
Página 91 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Página 111 - ALTHOUGH a Kingdom may be enriched by gifts received, or by purchase taken from some other Nations, yet these are things uncertain and of small consideration when they happen. The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Página 332 - Generally, in all the western settlements, three classes, like the waves of the ocean, have rolled one after the other. First comes the pioneer, who depends for the subsistence of his family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of his own •nake, and his efforts directed mainly to a crop of corn and a "truck patch.
Página 291 - The creation of a home market is not only necessary to procure for our agriculture a just reward of its labors, but it is indispensable to obtain a supply of our necessary wants. If we cannot sell, we cannot buy.
Página 126 - America do presume for the present, and until our further Pleasure be known, to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass Patents for any Lands beyond the Heads or Sources of any of the Rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the West and North West, or upon any Lands whatever, which, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us as aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them.
Página 366 - State authorities, then the occasion, the manner, and the extent of the appropriations should be made the subject of constitutional regulation. This is the more necessary in order that they may be equitable among the several States, promote harmony...
Página 237 - To all the arguments which are brought to evince the impracticability of success in manufacturing establishments hi the United States it might have been a sufficient answer to have referred to the experience of what has been already done. It is certain that several important branches have grown up and flourished with a rapidity which surprises, affording an encouraging assurance of success in future attempts.
Página 26 - To THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, In obedience to Your Majesty's Commands signified to us by...

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