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... GOLD CONSPIRACY · • C. F. Adams , Jr. . · -1 · Henry Adams · • 100 AN ERIE RAID • · · C. F. Adams , Jr. 135 · CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH Henry Adams 192 · THE BANK OF ENGLAND RESTRICTION · Henry Adams 224 BRITISH FINANCE IN 1816 • Henry Adams ...
... GOLD CONSPIRACY · • C. F. Adams , Jr. . · -1 · Henry Adams · • 100 AN ERIE RAID • · · C. F. Adams , Jr. 135 · CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH Henry Adams 192 · THE BANK OF ENGLAND RESTRICTION · Henry Adams 224 BRITISH FINANCE IN 1816 • Henry Adams ...
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... gold ex- change ; that they are loaned upon the security of stocks which are bought and sold largely on speculation , and which are manipulated by cliques and combinations , according as the bulls or bears are for the moment in the ...
... gold ex- change ; that they are loaned upon the security of stocks which are bought and sold largely on speculation , and which are manipulated by cliques and combinations , according as the bulls or bears are for the moment in the ...
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... gold lace , and assumed honored titles , until those who witnessed in silent contempt their strange antics were disposed to exclaim in the language of poor Doll Tearsheet : " An Admiral ! God's light , these villains will make the word ...
... gold lace , and assumed honored titles , until those who witnessed in silent contempt their strange antics were disposed to exclaim in the language of poor Doll Tearsheet : " An Admiral ! God's light , these villains will make the word ...
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... - pose , for the inflammable material was wanting . " * * Mommsen , Vol . IV . p . 91 , referring to the early Ciceronian period , B. c . 75 . THE NEW YORK GOLD CONSPIRACY . * House of Representatives A CHAPTER OF ERIE . 99.
... - pose , for the inflammable material was wanting . " * * Mommsen , Vol . IV . p . 91 , referring to the early Ciceronian period , B. c . 75 . THE NEW YORK GOLD CONSPIRACY . * House of Representatives A CHAPTER OF ERIE . 99.
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... Gold in the City of New York , from the 21st to the 27th of September , 1869 " ; accompanied by the Testimony collected by the Committee . THE HE civil war in America , with its enormous issues of depre- ciating currency , and its ...
... Gold in the City of New York , from the 21st to the 27th of September , 1869 " ; accompanied by the Testimony collected by the Committee . THE HE civil war in America , with its enormous issues of depre- ciating currency , and its ...
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Page 354 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Page 423 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 182 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Page 423 - Railways heretofore constructed or that may hereafter be constructed in* this State are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Page 25 - ... and the directors of the company may confer on any holder of any bond issued for money borrowed as aforesaid, the right to convert the principal due or owing thereon, into stock of said company, at any time not less than two nor more than twelve years from the date of the bond, under such regulations as the directors may see fit to adopt...
Page 221 - That some ten years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their chief...
Page 182 - OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring on any other.
Page 200 - At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. The Queene of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them.
Page 423 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor, or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created; and all stock dividends, and other fictitious increase of capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation, shall be void. The capital stock of no railroad corporation shall be increased for any purpose, except upon giving sixty days public notice, in such manner as may be provided by law.
Page 222 - Elizabeth, such his perils, preservations, dangers, deliverances, they seem to most men above belief, to some beyond truth. Yet have we two witnesses to attest them, the prose and the pictures, both in his own book; and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them.