Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 35Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana Freeman Hunt, 1856 - Commerce |
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... fact of history - one of a hundred other facts which should emblazon the names of Philadelphia merchants - that when famine threatened the army , when Cornwallis menaced Philadelphia , and when the appeals of Wash- ington and the ...
... fact of history - one of a hundred other facts which should emblazon the names of Philadelphia merchants - that when famine threatened the army , when Cornwallis menaced Philadelphia , and when the appeals of Wash- ington and the ...
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... fact , as regards the history of some of the livery companies , that women were admitted as free sisters of the corporation . And surely it is no disparagement to the female sex , when we remember that in the most exquisitely drawn ...
... fact , as regards the history of some of the livery companies , that women were admitted as free sisters of the corporation . And surely it is no disparagement to the female sex , when we remember that in the most exquisitely drawn ...
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... fact , that all the merchant companies have funds for charitable uses , to be dispensed to those who were once freemen of these corporations , or their widows , and children , there are some special institu- * Bohn's Pictorial Handbook ...
... fact , that all the merchant companies have funds for charitable uses , to be dispensed to those who were once freemen of these corporations , or their widows , and children , there are some special institu- * Bohn's Pictorial Handbook ...
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... fact , the Nile valley is , from the Red Sea , perfectly open to an invading army , which , in less than four days ' time , might be hurried bodily - and in a sufficient number , too , for the purpose from Aden , the Indian Gibraltar ...
... fact , the Nile valley is , from the Red Sea , perfectly open to an invading army , which , in less than four days ' time , might be hurried bodily - and in a sufficient number , too , for the purpose from Aden , the Indian Gibraltar ...
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... fact that the Anglo - Saxons of Old and New England command seven - eighths of the trans - oceanic trade , and the continent of Europe with 300,000,000 of people but the balance , the spirit of jealousy of both France and Austria may be ...
... fact that the Anglo - Saxons of Old and New England command seven - eighths of the trans - oceanic trade , and the continent of Europe with 300,000,000 of people but the balance , the spirit of jealousy of both France and Austria may be ...
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