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... Government , and subscribed seventy - five thousand dollars to the loans it was pro- curing in order to carry on the war . At the close of the Revolution , and shortly after he came of age , he entered upon the mercantile life , which ...
... Government , and subscribed seventy - five thousand dollars to the loans it was pro- curing in order to carry on the war . At the close of the Revolution , and shortly after he came of age , he entered upon the mercantile life , which ...
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... Government Director of the Bank of the United States , on the nomination of President Monroe , who , about the same time , assigned to him , under a resolution of Congress , the work of collecting the laws and regulations of foreign ...
... Government Director of the Bank of the United States , on the nomination of President Monroe , who , about the same time , assigned to him , under a resolution of Congress , the work of collecting the laws and regulations of foreign ...
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... Government , and of the dominant political party , the Bank main- tained its credit throughout the commercial world to the last moment of its existence . The charter expired , by its limitation , on the 3d March , 1836 ; and here ends ...
... Government , and of the dominant political party , the Bank main- tained its credit throughout the commercial world to the last moment of its existence . The charter expired , by its limitation , on the 3d March , 1836 ; and here ends ...
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... through negotiation , by the Government of the United States , after an im- prisonment of twenty months . From this time he was constantly in active service ; and at the commencement of the 70 EMINENT PHILADELPHIANS .
... through negotiation , by the Government of the United States , after an im- prisonment of twenty months . From this time he was constantly in active service ; and at the commencement of the 70 EMINENT PHILADELPHIANS .
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... Government that the frigates should be hauled up the river and dismantled ; the charge of them in this condition being assigned to Captain Biddle , in the Hornet . To one of his enterprising character , nothing could be more irksome ...
... Government that the frigates should be hauled up the river and dismantled ; the charge of them in this condition being assigned to Captain Biddle , in the Hornet . To one of his enterprising character , nothing could be more irksome ...
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Page 376 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 331 - HAPPY day that fixed my choice On thee, my Saviour and my God ! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its raptures all abroad.
Page 258 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 455 - In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 512 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Page 736 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect. How much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time.
Page 903 - the Sam. Adams of Philadelphia, the life of the cause of liberty.
Page 413 - Those scholars, who shall merit it, shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age ; they shall then be bound out by the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, or under their direction, to suitable occupations, as those of agriculture, navigation, arts, mechanical trades, and manufactures...
Page 46 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 694 - Four Dissertations on the RECIPROCAL ADVANTAGES of a PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER AMERICAN COLONIES.