Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceR. G. H. Huntington, 1839 - 479 страници |
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... lived and flourished in the days of our revolutionary struggle , we have little to do with the motives which indu- ced the first settlers of our country to seek an asylum in what was then an unexplored wilderness . Nor is this the place ...
... lived and flourished in the days of our revolutionary struggle , we have little to do with the motives which indu- ced the first settlers of our country to seek an asylum in what was then an unexplored wilderness . Nor is this the place ...
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... no inconsiderable change in the condition of New - England . For sixty years the people had lived happily , under constitutions and laws of their own adoption . Amidst the trials and sufferings which C 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
... no inconsiderable change in the condition of New - England . For sixty years the people had lived happily , under constitutions and laws of their own adoption . Amidst the trials and sufferings which C 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... lived amongst those people in a private as well as in a public character , I know them ; I know that in their private , social relations , there is not a more friendly , and in their political ones , a more zealously loyal people , in ...
... lived amongst those people in a private as well as in a public character , I know them ; I know that in their private , social relations , there is not a more friendly , and in their political ones , a more zealously loyal people , in ...
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... lived . His elocution was concise and impressive , partaking more of the logical than the figurative , and rather calculated to enlighten the un- derstanding , than to excite the feelings . Yet no man could address himself more ...
... lived . His elocution was concise and impressive , partaking more of the logical than the figurative , and rather calculated to enlighten the un- derstanding , than to excite the feelings . Yet no man could address himself more ...
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... lived in any country or epoch , " says his biographer , " when abuses of power were to be resisted , he would have been one of the re- formers . He would have suffered excommunication , rather than have bowed to papal infallibility , or ...
... lived in any country or epoch , " says his biographer , " when abuses of power were to be resisted , he would have been one of the re- formers . He would have suffered excommunication , rather than have bowed to papal infallibility , or ...
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Страница 24 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Страница 377 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Страница 50 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Страница 49 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Страница 115 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Страница 346 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Страница 377 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Страница 94 - I have done nothing in the late contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the duty which I owed to my people. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Страница 365 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Страница 38 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural born subjects, within the realm of England.