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Excerpt from Principles of Property in LandAT A time when the Conditions on which Property in Land should be held are being brought under con sideration, it seems desirable to examine the Prin ciples on which such Property rests, as well as the practical results of our present laws affecting Land.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Albany Burns ClubN the years just previous to the Civil War there were quite a num ber of very prominent, well known and well-to-do Scotchmen in Albany, and they were a factor in the'life of the City at that time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Banks and Exchange Companies: A Letter to Alexander Blair, Esq., Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, in Answer to the Prospectus Issued by the Proposed British Trust CompanyIt has been reported, and pretty generally believed, that this Company has been originated by the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank, in order to control, or put an end to, the business of the Exchange Companies, whose operations are viewed by the directors of ...

Excerpt from At State and PearlOf the hustle and bustle, the push and the go, From the days of Old Peter to the days of Old Joe, Of the loves and the hates, the hopes and the fears At Albany's center thro' many long years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

Excerpt from History of the Eighty-Sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer InfantryThe history Of the eighty-sixth Illinois was written in part While the regiment was yet in the service, merely for the gratification of a personal desire, but since its muster out, the author has been frequently urged by many of his friends to have it published, that they might share what he alone enjoyed. He complied with an earnest request from Colonel Fahne stock ...

Excerpt from Wrecking the Nation: The Crime of 1907-8, True Causes of the Panic Stringency of Money and Idleness of Millions of MenThey know that labor pains must come prior to the birth of the babe. They also know that darkness, misery and suffering is in store for the toiling millions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

The menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or roaring across fields in massive exercises remains one of the most enduring images of Soviet power in the early years of the Cold War. Its sleek and unmistakable shape was a warning to any nation that wanted to stand against the USSR. Yet all of this masked a flawed, outdated design, and when T-54s began to clash with the Western armored vehicles in ...

Excerpt from KincardineshireThe highly picturesque scenery along the coast of Kincardineshire is a never-ending delight to the artist and to other lovers of nature, while in its diversified ¿ora, its rock structures, its antiquities, the county offers ample material to botanist, geologist, and archaeologist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...

Excerpt from The Foundations of ReligionThe following chapters contain an extremely con densed summary of some Lectures which formed part of a series given on Sunday evenings during the last three years in a rural parish, in the absence of any service or religious instruction in the afternoon. They are now dedicated to those who listened to them, in gratitude for their earnest attention, and in the hope that such a short Manual of the grounds ...

Excerpt from Principles of Reform: Political and LegalI'r need hardly be observed that the title of this work is not to be understood as implying that an attempt to discuss every important question of Reform, now agitated, is to be found in the following pages. But there are certain cardinal and primary subjects, alike in politics as in law, to which Reform must first be directed, and in which it must secure success before any further advance ...

Excerpt from Principles of Civil GovernmentStill more if it is to lead to an era of higher worth and happiness of humanity, it can only be by fully understanding the essential elements of existence in communities, and by careful consideration of all that experience can teach us of the conditions under which freedom and happiness can be developed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...

Excerpt from The Crisis the Currency: With a Comparison Between the English Scotch Systems of BankingI am by no means insensible to the great import ance of railway communication through all parts of the country, nor ignorant of the immense advantage to be gained, in the economy of capital, and various other modes, by increased facility and rapidity of transit, between the great centre of commerce, and the most distant corners of the land. But...

Excerpt from Principles of PropertyAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, su...

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Excerpt from Digest of House of Lords Cases: Decided on Appeal From Scotland, 1709 to 1864, With Glossary of Scottish Law TermsIn preparing the abstracts, I have in no instance relied on those given by the original reporters, many of which are well known to be very imperfect, and some absolutely erroneous. I have read through every report of each case in both' the English and Scottish series, besides often referring to the appeal cases, a labo...