Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It is a fact of no infrequent occurrence, that erroneous estimates are formed of human conduct, and its immediate and remote effects on the interests of society. When this is the case, we sometimes denounce as hostile to social order and salutary improvement, those who are rea...
In the midst of this establishment there was a vast _casale_ or farm house, destitute of furniture and inhabited but a very few days in the year.--Every thing around breathed th...
5. Part 5During this awful catastrophe, these living toads were probably enclosed in their stony prisons. They were covered and buried with mud, which afterwards was hardened into stone...
6. Part 6"He departed, and arriving at the village, examined, with a scrutinizing eye, every Christian he met, till at last the Greek to whom he had given the gold, presented himself. 'Y...
2. Part 2The consumption and use of the necessaries and conveniences of life, by 10,000,000 of people, and the demands for the materials of domestic manufactures, cannot fail to afford t...
4. Part 4_Salt as a Manure._--In the history of the cocoa nut tree, by M. le Goux, the author tells us that the inhabitants of those parts of Hindostan and China, which border on the sea...
1. Part 1It is a fact of no infrequent occurrence, that erroneous estimates are formed of human conduct, and its immediate and remote effects on the interests of society. When this is th...
7. Part 7PENNSYLVANIA--Farmer's Bank, of} Lancaster; Easton; Montgomery} par. County; Chester } County, at Westchester, } New Hope; Northampton, 1½ Susquehanna Bridge Company, 2 Lancaste...