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Page 179 - They only resorted to it ad interim, till the regular physician could be called in ; and in most cases effected a radical cure, without paying for the attendance of the doctor. In this manner the Lynch law was executed on gamblers, disorderly persons, and latterly also on a certain species of itinerant ministers, who, a little too anxious for the emancipation of the Negroes in the Southern States, had betaken themselves to preaching the doctrine of revenge, instead of that of the atonement, and thereby...
Page 312 - District I" comprises the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the District of Columbia; (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within District I and District V; (d) "Districts I-IV...
Page 152 - ... to all prudent men the government of any place is more inviting than the soil. For what is good land without good laws ? The better the worse. And if we could not assure people of an easy and free and safe government, both with respect to their spiritual and worldly...
Page 202 - There is, probably, no people on earth with whom business constitutes pleasure, and industry amusement, in an equal degree with the inhabitants of the United States of America. Active occupation is not only the principal source of their happiness, and the foundation of their national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the dolce far niente, (enjoyment of doing nothing) know but the horrors of idleness.
Page 202 - ... know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues it, not as a means of procuring for himself and his family the necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity...
Page 118 - Congress. Postmasters may send and receive, free of postage, letters and packets, not exceeding half an ounce in weight ; and they may receive one daily newspaper each, or what is equivalent thereto. Printers of Newspapers may send one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster- General may provide.
Page 248 - ... ascribed; and all her policy and laws are put upon such an equitable footing, that neither life, estates, nor dignities, depend on the caprice or arbitrary power of any single individual, nor is there any room for any person, who by care, frugality, and diligence, has once acquired an affluent fortune or estate, to fear a deprivation of them by any act of violence, oppression, or injustice. " The administration of justice in the country...
Page 96 - If you put this question to me," says Sir Robert, "as a minister, I must and can assure you, that the money shall most undoubtedly be paid as soon as suits with public convenience: but if you ask me as a friend, whether Dean Berkeley should continue in America, expecting the payment of 20,000/., I advise him by all means to return home to Europe, and to give up his present expectations.
Page 181 - 1. Resolved, That it is expedient that more systematic and more vigorous efforts be made by the, Christian public, to restrain and prevent the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors. " 2. That an individual of acknowledged talents, piety, industry, and sound judgment, should be selected and employed as a permanent agent, to spend his time, and use his best exertions for the suppression and prevention of the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors.
Page 118 - Every Printed Pamphlet or Magazine which contains more than twenty-four pages, on a royal sheet, or any sheet of less dimensions, shall be charged by the sheet ; and small pamphlets, printed on a half or quarter sheet, of royal or less size, shall be charged with half the amount of postage charged on a full sheet.