Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Band 2F. Hunt, 1840 |
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... considered as included in the regular commercial lines by which the ocean is traversed . As the route from Great Britain to her Australasian settlements is equidistant nearly by Cape Horn and by the Cape of Good Hope , vessels ...
... considered as included in the regular commercial lines by which the ocean is traversed . As the route from Great Britain to her Australasian settlements is equidistant nearly by Cape Horn and by the Cape of Good Hope , vessels ...
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... considered in Europe to be a proper subject of legislative enactment , while every other species of property has been left to be used and disposed of according to the will and contracts of its owner , providing only for hon . esty and ...
... considered in Europe to be a proper subject of legislative enactment , while every other species of property has been left to be used and disposed of according to the will and contracts of its owner , providing only for hon . esty and ...
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... considered , and it certainly presents , prima facie , an imposing front . It seems , indeed , to be almost a selfevident proposition ; and , apart from the right assumed by society to govern men in the use of their property , and to ...
... considered , and it certainly presents , prima facie , an imposing front . It seems , indeed , to be almost a selfevident proposition ; and , apart from the right assumed by society to govern men in the use of their property , and to ...
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... considered , and consider the lending of money as a contract of a peculiar character , and properly subjected to peculiar restraints . I cannot but believe that this opinion or impresa sion has arisen , in the greater part , from Policy ...
... considered , and consider the lending of money as a contract of a peculiar character , and properly subjected to peculiar restraints . I cannot but believe that this opinion or impresa sion has arisen , in the greater part , from Policy ...
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... considered the agents of the owner , whatever is done by them is looked upon as his own act ; and if he intrusts the ship to persons incompetent to manage her , she is unseaworthy . The crew must be shipped for the entire voyage for ...
... considered the agents of the owner , whatever is done by them is looked upon as his own act ; and if he intrusts the ship to persons incompetent to manage her , she is unseaworthy . The crew must be shipped for the entire voyage for ...
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Seite 21 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 21 - Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 21 - And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the Whale Fishery.
Seite 534 - In case of the death of the wife, before the decease of her husband, the amount of the insurance may be made payable after her death to her children for their use, and to their guardian, if under age.
Seite 534 - ... the sum or net amount of the insurance becoming due and payable by the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her, to and for her own use, free from the claims of the representatives of her husband, or of any of his creditors, but such exemption shall nol apply where the amount of premium annually paid shall exceed three hundred dollars.
Seite 21 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Seite 534 - Ii shall be lawful for any married woman, by herself and in her name, or in the name of any third person, with his assent, as her trustee, to cause to be insured, for her sole use, the life of her husband...
Seite 222 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Seite 101 - If all land had the same properties, if it were unlimited in quantity, and uniform in quality, no charge could be made for its use, unless where it possessed peculiar advantages of situation. It is only, then, because land is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.
Seite 115 - But be this as it may, there can be no doubt that the personified Abraxas was meant as a symbol of the sun.