Education as the great insurance for the commonwealth
A passionate oration argues that education, not wealth or machinery, protects life and property. It condemns a profit driven age that neglects mind over matter and calls the common school the best path for all, including the poor, to uplift society and preserve liberty.
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Macbeth
Banquo
Bishop
Doane
Jenters
Stenjamin Franklin
Carlyle
Lpve
Fielding
Lazarus
Henry IV
Wealth and disillusion in a Paris heiress tale
In a Parisian inheritance tale two sisters face changing fortunes. Mary chooses duty over an empty title while Julia weighs a marriage to Baron Wallenstein as she considers a future in Paris. A backstory unfolds about Count de Merveille’s dilapidated chateau and a fortune earned by thrift.
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Lia
Julia
Mary
Papa
Frank
Frank Merrivale
France
House of Merveille
St. Domingo
America
Merrivale
Baron Wallenstein
Paris
Count de Merveille
Gardner
Heron Woallewetein
Julia's Love and a Baron in Sing Sing Prison
In a fragment from a 19th century tale, Julia’s violent kiss on a baby leads to a silent setback and the baron’s danger as a suspicious pursuer is thwarted when he is dragged to jail for stealing a cloak. The baron is imprisoned in Sing Sing, and Julia’s romantic prospects shift toward Charles Barford while the narrator laments plebian curses on his family.
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Julia
Aster
Mr. Mordaunt
Broadway
Constante
Sing Sing
Tites
Charles Barford
Tariff fallacies expose hidden flaws in import myths
The New York Journal of Commerce argues against the belief that high duties curb imports. It analyzes official Treasury data since 1820 to show Britain’s trade dominance, calculating that freight and profits lift foreign values by about 15 percent, yielding a long term excess of exports over imports.
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England
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Great Britain
United Sites
Algeifene
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Ank and
Pasheon
E. C. Embury
Rome
Tion
Ponto
Count Handsforth
Ves
Marrivale
Pether
Mordaunts
Julia Morduant
New York
The
N. Y. Journal of Commerce
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