Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register: Containing Documents, Facts, and Other Useful Information, Illustrative of the History and Resources of the American Union and of Each State, Volume 1

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Samuel Hazard
W. F. Geddes., 1840 - United States
 

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Page 6 - I have taken (said Amrou to the caliph) the great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the...
Page 12 - To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her ; And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour ; . Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train- attendant ; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Page 314 - Our own independent examination of the magazines leads us to conclude that the most that can be said of them is that they are dismally unpleasant, uncouth, and tawdry. But this is not enough to make them "obscene.
Page 44 - ... and no others, shall be deemed ships or vessels of the United States, entitled to the privileges of ships or vessels employed in the coasting trade.
Page 51 - Whereas by the laws now in force, all contracts and assurances whatsoever for the payment of money made for a usurious consideration are utterly void, and whereas, in the course of mercantile transactions, negotiable securities often pass into the hands of persons who have discounted the same without any knowledge of the original consideration...
Page 279 - British postage for the time being payable by law on the transmission of post letters, newspapers, or other printed papers, to such extent as the Lords of the Treasury shall from time to time direct; and power is also given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time, by warrant, under their hands, to alter and fix any of the rates of British...
Page 322 - Tolerations of divers Religions, or of one Religion in segregant shapes : He that willingly assents to The last, if he examines his heart by day-light, his conscience will tell him, he is either an Atheist, or an Heretique, or an Hypocrite, or at best a captive to some lust : Poly-piety is the greatest impiety in the world.
Page 51 - I found, What weak credulity could have no faith in, A treasure far exceeding these : here lay A manor bound fast in a skin of parchment, The wax continuing hard, the acres melting ; Here a sure deed of gift for a market-town, If not redeem'd this day, which is not in The unthrift's power : there being scarce one shire In Wales or England, where my monies are not Lent out at usury, the certain hook To draw in more.
Page 243 - ... may, by injunction, restrain such corporation and its officers, from exercising any of its corporate rights, privileges or franchises, and from collecting or receiving any debts or demands, and from paying out or in any way transferring or delivering to any person, any of the moneys, property or effects of such corporation, until such court shall otherwise order.
Page 6 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.

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