Astor, passed into the possession of the Northwest Company at about a third of theirvalue. * A safe passage through the Northwest posts was guaranteed to such as did not choose to enter into the service of that Company, and the amount of wages due to them was to be deducted from the price paid for Astoria.

"All my jewels and articles ofvalue, then, are packed up?"

The debts amounted to double thevalue of the property.

"But you, who make a mock of human life, don't you place anyvalue upon it whatever?" I demanded.

We see thevalue set on animals even by the barbarians of Tierra del Fuego, by their killing and devouring their old women, in times of dearth, as of lessvalue than their dogs.

Neither thevalue of lands, nor the numbers of the people, which have been successively proposed as the rule of State contributions, has any pretension to being a just representative.

Thevalue of such a passage cannot be analysed: it can only be said that given such a subject, this alone is the right method of treatment.

Surely nothing could be better, hardly anything more directly fitted than careful reading of Wordsworth, to counter the faults and offences of our busy generation, in regard both to thought and taste, and to remind people, amid the enormous expansion, at the present time, of all that is material and mechanical in life, of the essentialvalue, the permanent ends, of life itself.

The vessels they make use of are black earthenware, which, the older it is, they set a greatervalue on.

For which reason the art of money-getting seems to be chiefly conversant about trade, and the business of it to be able to tell where the greatest profits can be made, being the means of procuring abundance of wealth and possessions: and thus wealth is very often supposed to consist in the quantity of money which any one possesses, as this is the medium by which all trade is conducted and a fortune made, others again regard it as of novalue, as being of none by nature, but arbitrarily made so by compact; so that if those who use it should alter their sentiments, it would be worth nothing, as being of no service for any necessary purpose.

These meditations were entirely employed on Mr Allworthy's fortune; for, first, he exercised much thought in calculating, as well as he could, the exactvalue of the whole: which calculations he often saw occasion to alter in his own favour: and, secondly and chiefly, he pleased himself with intended alterations in the house and gardens, and in projecting many other schemes, as well for the improvement of the estate as of the grandeur of the place: for this purpose he applied himself to the studies of architecture and gardening, and read over many books on both these subjects; for these sciences, indeed, employed his whole time, and formed his only amusement.

As to the exactvalue of the telephone to the United States in dollars and cents, no one can tell.