The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 321855 |
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Page 586 - then the law will excuse him; but when the party, by his own contract, creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, notwithstanding any accident or delay by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by contract.
Page 781 - but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary, common-place things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early 1
Page 168 - properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which all have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade ; it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and
Page 24 - In every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly everything takes a new face : labor and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skillful ; and even the farmer follows his plow with
Page 485 - And be it further enacted, That the sum of seven millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect
Page 493 - entered into between Great Britain and the United States, shall go into effect, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required to refund out of any money in the treasury, to the several persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties on
Page 573 - just and reasonable that the several provinces and colonies of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island be reimbursed the expenses they have been at in taking and securing to the crown of Great Britain the Island of Cape Breton and
Page 665 - lie smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet."*
Page 493 - the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized to refund out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties on any of the articles enumerated in the schedule annexed to the third article of the reciprocity