Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to Amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania, December 22, 1837. In Support of an Amendment to Prohibit Banks from Issuing Notes of a Less Denomination Than Ten Dollars, as Offered by Mr. Read of SusquehannaJ. Wilbank, 1838 - 15 pages |
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... existence of things is not strange ; tremble , thine eyes become dim , and death " What is but the power of perceiving this existence put a period to thy existence . " " Death is the end of life . Death is , beyond comprehension ...
... existence of things is not strange ; tremble , thine eyes become dim , and death " What is but the power of perceiving this existence put a period to thy existence . " " Death is the end of life . Death is , beyond comprehension ...
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... existence here is a period of exertion . We are taught therefore to meet unavoidable danger with resolution , and to remove the greatest difficulties by perseverance . We are obliged to climb the highest mountain , leap down the ...
... existence here is a period of exertion . We are taught therefore to meet unavoidable danger with resolution , and to remove the greatest difficulties by perseverance . We are obliged to climb the highest mountain , leap down the ...
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... existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round of domestic drudgery ? Os - sublime dedit , cœlumque videre Jussit , et erectos ad sidera tollere vultos . No : he looks downward to the earth , and offers his ...
... existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round of domestic drudgery ? Os - sublime dedit , cœlumque videre Jussit , et erectos ad sidera tollere vultos . No : he looks downward to the earth , and offers his ...
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... existence , on the same bank or hillock , are scarcely superior , in their intellectual powers , to a polypus or zoophytic fungus . What knowledge of the world was possessed by the toad , which was shut up for five thousand years in the ...
... existence , on the same bank or hillock , are scarcely superior , in their intellectual powers , to a polypus or zoophytic fungus . What knowledge of the world was possessed by the toad , which was shut up for five thousand years in the ...
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... existence in the valley of Childhood . own His couch was composed of roses , and canopied over by the boughs of the orange and the myr tle . Bubbling springs were seen among the flowers , and the melody of birds was heard amid the ...
... existence in the valley of Childhood . own His couch was composed of roses , and canopied over by the boughs of the orange and the myr tle . Bubbling springs were seen among the flowers , and the melody of birds was heard amid the ...
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