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... Ramsey , — at once the originator , president , financial agent , legal adviser , and guiding spirit of the enterprise . The close of the seventeenth year of corporate life found all the available means of the company exhausted , and ...
... Ramsey , — at once the originator , president , financial agent , legal adviser , and guiding spirit of the enterprise . The close of the seventeenth year of corporate life found all the available means of the company exhausted , and ...
Page 246
... Ramsey himself with Mr. David Groesbeck , the head of a well - known brokers ' firm in the city of New York , and formerly the business associate of Mr. Daniel Drew . This loan was upon terms somewhat more favorable to the company than ...
... Ramsey himself with Mr. David Groesbeck , the head of a well - known brokers ' firm in the city of New York , and formerly the business associate of Mr. Daniel Drew . This loan was upon terms somewhat more favorable to the company than ...
Page 247
... Ramsey's road found them , while , during the same interval , the receipts of the last had swollen from less than six millions per annum to considerably over fifteen . As for the men who managed the great trunk lines when Mr. Ramsey had ...
... Ramsey's road found them , while , during the same interval , the receipts of the last had swollen from less than six millions per annum to considerably over fifteen . As for the men who managed the great trunk lines when Mr. Ramsey had ...
Page 249
... Ramsey , as the controlling influence in the Albany & Susquehanna management , neither desired to surrender the independence of his road , nor , in view of the recent experience of others , did he impose implicit faith in either the ...
... Ramsey , as the controlling influence in the Albany & Susquehanna management , neither desired to surrender the independence of his road , nor , in view of the recent experience of others , did he impose implicit faith in either the ...
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... Ramsey . Whatever the cause , the direction at the time of the completion of the road was divided not unevenly . This condi- tion of affairs was very unsatisfactory to Mr. Ramsey . He maintained that at the previous election he and his ...
... Ramsey . Whatever the cause , the direction at the time of the completion of the road was divided not unevenly . This condi- tion of affairs was very unsatisfactory to Mr. Ramsey . He maintained that at the previous election he and his ...
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Page 204 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 205 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined, from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 54 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 208 - Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Page 204 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die...
Page 204 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Page 205 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 201 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins...
Page 194 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 283 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.