Readings in the Economic History of the United StatesLongmans, Green and Company, 1916 - 862 páginas |
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... considerable skill and capital to develop it , while the returns were rather uncertain . Consequently all of these industries were developed more slowly and later than agriculture and the extractive industries . They can flourish only ...
... considerable skill and capital to develop it , while the returns were rather uncertain . Consequently all of these industries were developed more slowly and later than agriculture and the extractive industries . They can flourish only ...
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... considerable : бut then their management in other respects renders the culture not so cheap as it may appear at first sight , for the New England farmers practice pretty much the same system as their brethren in Canada ; they have not a ...
... considerable : бut then their management in other respects renders the culture not so cheap as it may appear at first sight , for the New England farmers practice pretty much the same system as their brethren in Canada ; they have not a ...
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... considerable annual Income . A stock of Tobo with the crops and good debts lying out of about 250000lb besides sufficient of almost all sorts of goods , to supply the familys & the Quarter's occasion for two if not three years . Thus I ...
... considerable annual Income . A stock of Tobo with the crops and good debts lying out of about 250000lb besides sufficient of almost all sorts of goods , to supply the familys & the Quarter's occasion for two if not three years . Thus I ...
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... considerable trading people ; whereas , at present , they have few or no ships , but coasting vessels , & they are ... considerably advanced . For it must be observed , that this Plantation is in a very flourishing condition ; greatly ...
... considerable trading people ; whereas , at present , they have few or no ships , but coasting vessels , & they are ... considerably advanced . For it must be observed , that this Plantation is in a very flourishing condition ; greatly ...
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... considerable trade , by reason of a great Sound near sixty miles over , that lies between the Coast & the Sea , barred by a vast Chain of Sand - banks , so very shallow & shifting , that sloops , drawing only five foot water , run great ...
... considerable trade , by reason of a great Sound near sixty miles over , that lies between the Coast & the Sea , barred by a vast Chain of Sand - banks , so very shallow & shifting , that sloops , drawing only five foot water , run great ...
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Página 686 - And when any of said notes may be redeemed or be received into the treasury under any law, from any source whatever, and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retired, cancelled, or destroyed, but they shall be reissued and paid out again and kept in circulation...
Página 72 - 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 149 - Do not you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it was moderated? A. No, never, unless compelled by force of arms.
Página 99 - 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 121 - 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 346 - 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 686 - And, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues from time to time in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than par in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of Congress approved July 14, 1870, entitled ' An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt...
Página 486 - ... would seem to be its duty to take nothing less than their full value ; and if gratuities must be made once in fifteen or twenty years, let them not be bestowed on the subjects of a foreign government, nor upon a designated and favored class of men in our own country.
Página 486 - ... must come, directly or indirectly, out of the earnings of the American people. It is due to them, therefore, if their government sell monopolies and exclusive privileges, that they should at least exact for them as much as they are worth in open market. The value of the monopoly in this case may be correctly ascertained. The twentyeight millions of stock would probably be at an advance of...
Página 305 - 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.