The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 35F. Hunt, 1856 - Commerce |
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Page 37
... dollars ; a greater sum than all the other " valuation " of the State , and if properly treated an admirable investment . This property is not merely personal , it belongs also to the public ; and in the health and life of each person ...
... dollars ; a greater sum than all the other " valuation " of the State , and if properly treated an admirable investment . This property is not merely personal , it belongs also to the public ; and in the health and life of each person ...
Page 38
... dollars destroyed . It is also to be considered that a man cannot be replaced in a moment - brain is a product or manufacture requiring years for its perfection , and the whole world will suffer from the loss experienced in any war . In ...
... dollars destroyed . It is also to be considered that a man cannot be replaced in a moment - brain is a product or manufacture requiring years for its perfection , and the whole world will suffer from the loss experienced in any war . In ...
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... dollars ? M. Lesseps takes it as granted , that the Canal through the Isthmus of Suez existed once , but he has no positive proof for this assertion . True , the canal has been tried several times , but never was accomplished ; so only ...
... dollars ? M. Lesseps takes it as granted , that the Canal through the Isthmus of Suez existed once , but he has no positive proof for this assertion . True , the canal has been tried several times , but never was accomplished ; so only ...
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... dollars and over twenty years of time , at the Barrages , " which are yet unfinished , and never will be of use ; on the contrary , they are a serious obstacle to the navigation of the Nile - and at the first extraordinary rise of this ...
... dollars and over twenty years of time , at the Barrages , " which are yet unfinished , and never will be of use ; on the contrary , they are a serious obstacle to the navigation of the Nile - and at the first extraordinary rise of this ...
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... dollars in that cause , especially in securing and preserving those very collections which are still allowed to be stowed away in dusty nooks and corners , doing the world no more good than if they never had been reached by the eager ...
... dollars in that cause , especially in securing and preserving those very collections which are still allowed to be stowed away in dusty nooks and corners , doing the world no more good than if they never had been reached by the eager ...
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