But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty..

As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangeme….

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather….

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from u….

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundr….