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... average , fully a year to foreclose a mort- gage and effect a sale from which there was no redemption . It now takes a year to foreclose a mortgage , and our laws give no redemption after a sale . In this the State of Wis- consin ...
... average , fully a year to foreclose a mort- gage and effect a sale from which there was no redemption . It now takes a year to foreclose a mortgage , and our laws give no redemption after a sale . In this the State of Wis- consin ...
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... average clear profit of productive in- dustry . If our laws limit the rate of interest at seven per cent . , business will readily adjust itself to that rate . If the law lim- its it to twelve per cent . , business will adjust itself to ...
... average clear profit of productive in- dustry . If our laws limit the rate of interest at seven per cent . , business will readily adjust itself to that rate . If the law lim- its it to twelve per cent . , business will adjust itself to ...
Page 136
... average value per acre , the assessed valuation of city and village property , and the assessed valuation of personal property , together with the assessed valu- ation of all the property in the State , as assessed for the year 1857 ...
... average value per acre , the assessed valuation of city and village property , and the assessed valuation of personal property , together with the assessed valu- ation of all the property in the State , as assessed for the year 1857 ...
Page 145
... average valuation per acre of such land , the aggregate valuation thereof , the aggregate valuation of village and city lots , the aggregate value of per- sonal property , the aggregate valuation of all property in the State of ...
... average valuation per acre of such land , the aggregate valuation thereof , the aggregate valuation of village and city lots , the aggregate value of per- sonal property , the aggregate valuation of all property in the State of ...
Page 146
... AVERAGE VALUARION PER ACRE , & c . COUNTIES . Eau Claire .. $ 500,000 $ 1,000 $ 200 $ 25 00 $ 1,225 00 Fond du Lac . 445,127 $ 3 25 $ 1,509,458 $ 595,940 Grant .. Green . Green Lake .. 697,541 3 50 2,387,896 263,371 $ 249,860 ...
... AVERAGE VALUARION PER ACRE , & c . COUNTIES . Eau Claire .. $ 500,000 $ 1,000 $ 200 $ 25 00 $ 1,225 00 Fond du Lac . 445,127 $ 3 25 $ 1,509,458 $ 595,940 Grant .. Green . Green Lake .. 697,541 3 50 2,387,896 263,371 $ 249,860 ...
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Page 232 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 195 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 35 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 236 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 31 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 232 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 31 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling, if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Page 31 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 178 - I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education as a man and a Christian which it was possible for me to provide.
Page 32 - ... from what is called the best society in the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good- books, such as have been written by rightminded and strong-minded men, real thinkers, who instead of diluting by repetition what others say, have something to say for themselves, and write to give relief to full, earnest souls; and these works must not be skimmed over for amusement, but read with fixed attention and a reverential love of truth.