Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL. D.: PoliticalLittle, Brown and Company, 1852 |
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... five nays in one House , and ten in the other , upon the final passage of the repealing bill . Are we now to be considered less friendly to the great foundation- stone of all our prosperity , the agricultural interest ? Shall we refuse ...
... five nays in one House , and ten in the other , upon the final passage of the repealing bill . Are we now to be considered less friendly to the great foundation- stone of all our prosperity , the agricultural interest ? Shall we refuse ...
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... five mil- lion bushels annually ; and any increase of consumption , whether to six or eight millions , will extend a very acceptable benefit to the freighting trade of the country , now languishing and depressed . The principal ...
... five mil- lion bushels annually ; and any increase of consumption , whether to six or eight millions , will extend a very acceptable benefit to the freighting trade of the country , now languishing and depressed . The principal ...
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... five to thirty - seven cents , when weighing seventy - eight pounds ; which , deducting the duty on that weight , and the freight , would leave the original cost rather less than twelve cents . Another test , that this is about the ...
... five to thirty - seven cents , when weighing seventy - eight pounds ; which , deducting the duty on that weight , and the freight , would leave the original cost rather less than twelve cents . Another test , that this is about the ...
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... five years ' full pay to the youngest in the line , and just as much to the eldest , -treating the officer of twenty - five as not likely to live any longer than him of seventy ; and subjecting the former to take for his half pay ...
... five years ' full pay to the youngest in the line , and just as much to the eldest , -treating the officer of twenty - five as not likely to live any longer than him of seventy ; and subjecting the former to take for his half pay ...
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... five years of age , to live about twenty - eight more . An annuity for thirty - four years is worth a fraction more than fourteen times its annual amount , if paid in a gross sum in advance ; and one for twenty - eight years , only a ...
... five years of age , to live about twenty - eight more . An annuity for thirty - four years is worth a fraction more than fourteen times its annual amount , if paid in a gross sum in advance ; and one for twenty - eight years , only a ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 267 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
Seite 110 - Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Seite 92 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...
Seite 65 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 466 - Cambridge ; public schools and grammar schools in the towns ; to encourage private societies and public institutions ; rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country...
Seite 487 - No person can in any case be subjected to law martial, or to any penalties or pains, by virtue of that law, except those employed in the army or navy, and except the militia in actual service, but by authority of the Legislature.
Seite 541 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Seite 366 - ... the United States hereby cede to His Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever all their rights, claims and pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the...
Seite 465 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Seite 370 - In other words, that when the Constitution of the United States vests in Congress the power to...