But while these numerous blessings are recollected, it is a painful duty to advert to the ungrateful return which has been made for them by some of the people in certain counties of Pennsylvania, where, seduced by the arts and misrepresentations of designing men, they have openly resisted the law directing the valuation of houses and lands.

Mr. Witherspoon (of New-Jersey) was of opinion, that the value of lands and houses was the best estimate of the wealth of a nation, and that it was practicable to obtain such a valuation.

I saw, in a lower room, groupes of unfortunate beings, depriving themselves of different parts of their apparel, and watching with solicitude the arbitrary valuations; others exchanging some article of necessity for one of a still greater some in a state of intoxication, uttering execrations of despair; and all exhibiting a picture of human nature depraved and miserable.

The custom-house surveyors then commence the valuation of the goods of which his cargo is composed: I say they commence, because it is a common thing for them not to have finished the estimate of the scale and amount of corresponding duties, till the expiration of two, four, and not unfrequently six months.

He rode a horse across the line without declaring valuation.

The landlord could then demand a valuation and payment of the difference, if the flocks had fallen below the proper standard.

Sir William Robertson Nicoll deprecates any over-valuation of Mr. Clement Shorter's collection.

These call for constant revaluations of the sources of incomes, thus destroying customary and habitual valuations.

During your recess measures have been steadily pursued for effecting the valuations and returns directed by the act of the last session, preliminary to the assessment and collection of a direct tax.

The Stone of Micheux is the only one which affords a valuation of the land.

Let us justify this valuation by citing these two lines of Racine: "The wave comes on, it breaks, and vomits 'neath our eyes, Amid the floods of foam, a monster grim and dire.

It was not proposed to touch private endowments; and glebe-houses which had become generally dilapidated were handed over to incumbents by their paying a fair valuation.

Carroll placed an exceedingly high valuation on Leverage's opinioneven though the minds of the two men were as far apart as the poles.

He would, therefore, deliberately prefer the older Pagan valuation of conduct to the Christian valuation.

No two things, for instance, can ever be absolutely equal, except imaginary equalitiesand that's the mischief of logic applied to life, that it presumes an exact valuation of the ideas it works with, when no two people's valuations of the same idea are identical, and even one person's valuation varies from time to time; and logic breeds a phantom sort of consistency which only exists in the imagination.

" On December 28, 1815, Mr. Murray received the following valuation: "Mr. Cochrane presents respectful compliments to Mr. Murray, and begs to inform him that upon carefully inspecting the books in Skinner Street, he judges the fair value of them to be £450.

If reason arises from the failure of intellect it is doubtless to rectify the valuations of the ego.

I don't want your own valuation.

The thinker who declares he wants to know all about 'reality' does not mean that he wishes to investigate everything which in any sense exists, but that he wishes to know what he considers best worth knowingand this, of course, implies a personal valuation, a purged and expurgated extract, which will not offend his taste.

With almost insolent freshness Fichte asserted a re-valuation of all values: what had been "enlightenment" was now to be called shallowness; "ancient crudities" were to be reverenced as deeper perceptions of truth; "fine literature" was to be accounted a frivolous thing.

With the Hupâ a girl will bring in the market $15 to $50"about half the valuation of a man."