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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 91 13 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 11 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 7 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 6 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 6 2 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 5 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 5 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamilton, Alexander 1757- (search)
happen to coincide, they will render the course to be pursued more plain and more certain. To ascertain the first with precision would require better materials than are possessed or than could be obtained without an inconvenient delay. Sir Isaac Newton, in a representation to the treasury of Great Britain, in the year 1717, after stating the particular proportions in the different countries of Europe, concludes thus: By the course of trade and exchange between nation and nation in all Euroe been since made in the regulations of their coins by several nations, which, as well as the course of trade, have an influence upon the market values. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the state of the matter as represented by Sir Isaac Newton is not very remote from its actual state. In Holland, the greatest money market of Europe, gold was to silver, in December, 1789, as 1 to 14.88; and in that of London it has been for some time past but little different, approaching, perha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Francis 1789- (search)
Jackson, Francis 1789- Social reformer; born in Newton, Mass., March 7, 1789; president of the Anti-Slavery Society in Boston for many years. He published a History of Newton, and died there Nov. 14, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
substance, as free-traders generally assume, that freetrade, or the let-alone revenue system, which was started in 1846 with the repeal of the Corn Laws, and practically adopted by Great Britain less than thirty years ago, is based on scientific truth, natural law, and moral virtue, applicable to all nations and to all times alike, and that any other system is not only false, but wasteful and unchristian. This overlauded economical discovery appears to have been unknown to Bacon and Locke, Newton and Paley, unregarded by a great majority of enlightened Christian nations, and especially unregarded by the British colonies. And yet it seems almost a personal grief to Mr. Gladstone that the United States should be unwilling to accept the beatitudes of free-trade, although British interests, as he claims, have prospered, and will prosper, in spite of American adherence to protection. Why not, then, let us alone? If the whole world were one vast Utopia of communistic brethren, and swo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newton, Isaac 1800- (search)
Newton, Isaac 1800- Agriculturist; born in Burlington county, N. J., March 31, 1800; was the projector of the national department of agriculture. When the bureau of agriculture was established in 1862, President Lincoln offered the commissionership to Mr. Newton. He held the office until his death, in Washington, D. C., June 19, 1867. Newton, Isaac 1800- Agriculturist; born in Burlington county, N. J., March 31, 1800; was the projector of the national department of agriculture. When the bureau of agriculture was established in 1862, President Lincoln offered the commissionership to Mr. Newton. He held the office until his death, in Washington, D. C., June 19, 1867.