Commercial Review of the South and West: A Monthly Journal of Trade, Commerce, Commercial Polity, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements and General Literature, Volume 10James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J.D.B. DeBow., 1851 - Industries |
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... thousand blessings , en passant , to the Yankee who invented the steaming of vegetables as a means of cooking them . ) Water gives us a speed of fifty miles the hour on rail - roads , when a pow - wow of pine sticks smoke their pipes ...
... thousand blessings , en passant , to the Yankee who invented the steaming of vegetables as a means of cooking them . ) Water gives us a speed of fifty miles the hour on rail - roads , when a pow - wow of pine sticks smoke their pipes ...
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... thousand Roman slaves were employed for eleven years , and which remains almost perfect to the present day . This , the gov- ernment of Naples was ten years in repairing with an hundred work- men . The imperishable works of Rome which ...
... thousand Roman slaves were employed for eleven years , and which remains almost perfect to the present day . This , the gov- ernment of Naples was ten years in repairing with an hundred work- men . The imperishable works of Rome which ...
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... victims of the most grinding and cruel injustice and oppres- sion . We know that these exhortations continually reach them , through a thousand channels which we cannot detect , as 52 CHANCELLOR HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
... victims of the most grinding and cruel injustice and oppres- sion . We know that these exhortations continually reach them , through a thousand channels which we cannot detect , as 52 CHANCELLOR HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
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... thousand libels . They have done more to discredit , and if any thing could , to endanger , not only our domestic , but our republican institutions , than the abolition- ists themselves . Men can never be permanently and effectually dis ...
... thousand libels . They have done more to discredit , and if any thing could , to endanger , not only our domestic , but our republican institutions , than the abolition- ists themselves . Men can never be permanently and effectually dis ...
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... thousand fold worse , so far as the feel- ings of the individual are concerned , than to be degraded by the laws . They would be thus degraded , and this feeling is incompatible with habits of order and industry . Half our population ...
... thousand fold worse , so far as the feel- ings of the individual are concerned , than to be degraded by the laws . They would be thus degraded , and this feeling is incompatible with habits of order and industry . Half our population ...
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