The Nation, Volume 16J.H. Richards, 1873 - Current events |
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... bonds in exchange for old ones - but the old ones were not deliver- able for three months after the subscription of the new ones , and during these three months interest amounting in all to eleven per cent . per annum ran against the ...
... bonds in exchange for old ones - but the old ones were not deliver- able for three months after the subscription of the new ones , and during these three months interest amounting in all to eleven per cent . per annum ran against the ...
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... bonds , or would there be an advance in the one and a decline in the other to a common and inter- mediate level ? 2. What effect would such mutual convertibility of greenbacks and bonds immediately have on the National Bank note ...
... bonds , or would there be an advance in the one and a decline in the other to a common and inter- mediate level ? 2. What effect would such mutual convertibility of greenbacks and bonds immediately have on the National Bank note ...
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... Bond Street , New York . PRICED CATALOGUE , No. 26 , Containing many scarce books in American History ; Old English Literature ; Voyages and Travels ; Poetry and the Drama ; Facetia ; Scarce Old Trials , etc. , etc. Just published , and ...
... Bond Street , New York . PRICED CATALOGUE , No. 26 , Containing many scarce books in American History ; Old English Literature ; Voyages and Travels ; Poetry and the Drama ; Facetia ; Scarce Old Trials , etc. , etc. Just published , and ...
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... bonds were made as the market price , and purchased only those bonds that were offered at or under that price . The large Government dealers have been holding off from offering bonds to the Treasury in consequence of this construction ...
... bonds were made as the market price , and purchased only those bonds that were offered at or under that price . The large Government dealers have been holding off from offering bonds to the Treasury in consequence of this construction ...
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... bonds . The tendency towards further issues of paper and the eagerness " to move the crops " are becoming so great , that any measure which promises to take currency out of the hands of the politicians deserves careful attention . This ...
... bonds . The tendency towards further issues of paper and the eagerness " to move the crops " are becoming so great , that any measure which promises to take currency out of the hands of the politicians deserves careful attention . This ...
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Page 280 - States in the legislative bodies which claimed to be in their normal relations with the federal government, were laws which imposed upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailed their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...
Page 280 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a state, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the state to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Page 76 - Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heartbeats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
Page 37 - British flag, in the enhanced payments of insurance, in the prolongation of the war, and in the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellion...
Page 124 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Page 252 - But my delight in going over Homer and Virgil with the boys makes me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him line by line, and word by word, in the way that nothing but a translation lesson ever will enable one to do; and so to get all his pictures and thoughts leisurely into one's mind, till I verily think one would after a time almost give out light in the dark, after having been steeped as it were in such an atmosphere...
Page 76 - But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Page 280 - If, then, there is a difference between the privileges and immunities belonging to a citizen of the United States as such, and those belonging to the citizen of the State as such, the latter must rest for their security and protection where they have heretofore rested, for they are not embraced by this paragraph of the amendment. The first occurrence of the words privileges and immunities...
Page 150 - I have:' looking very hard at me the while, for he had told me with some pride coming down that it was his composition. 'Oh !' said the clergyman. 'Then you will agree with me, Mr. C, that it is not only an insult to me, who am the servant of the Almighty, but an insult to the Almighty, whose servant I am.
Page 273 - Key to North American Birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the Continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Second Edition, revised to date and entirely rewritten : with which are incorporated General Ornithology...