History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Period of the Fifth Census, in 1830: Comprising Every Important Political Event ...Grigg & Elliot, 1840 - 326 страници |
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... laws ; strangers to letters , destitute of arts , ignorant of their use , unambitious of their acquirement . No intercourse existed even amongst themselves . Constantinople , however , was so fortunate as to escape their destructive ...
... laws ; strangers to letters , destitute of arts , ignorant of their use , unambitious of their acquirement . No intercourse existed even amongst themselves . Constantinople , however , was so fortunate as to escape their destructive ...
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... law , he applied to the queen , in whose favour he stood high , at that time , and procured a patent , with similar jurisdic tion and prerogatives . Raleigh despatched two small ves- sels , under the command of Philip Amadas and Ar ...
... law , he applied to the queen , in whose favour he stood high , at that time , and procured a patent , with similar jurisdic tion and prerogatives . Raleigh despatched two small ves- sels , under the command of Philip Amadas and Ar ...
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... laws more liberal than those which they now obeyed . It had not driv- en these colonists away : their emigration was voluntary ; embraced with ardour , because dictated by ambition . Scarcely had they committed this violence on the ...
... laws more liberal than those which they now obeyed . It had not driv- en these colonists away : their emigration was voluntary ; embraced with ardour , because dictated by ambition . Scarcely had they committed this violence on the ...
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... law than the royal will . But , the colonists not quietly submitting to this system of oppression , Charles yielded to ... laws of England . He was directed to issue writs for choosing representatives of the people ; who , in conjunction ...
... law than the royal will . But , the colonists not quietly submitting to this system of oppression , Charles yielded to ... laws of England . He was directed to issue writs for choosing representatives of the people ; who , in conjunction ...
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... law , the benefit of their in- creasing commerce . With this view , the parliament fram- ed two acts : one , prohibiting all mercantile intercourse be- tween the colonies and foreign states ; the other , the im- portation of Asiatic ...
... law , the benefit of their in- creasing commerce . With this view , the parliament fram- ed two acts : one , prohibiting all mercantile intercourse be- tween the colonies and foreign states ; the other , the im- portation of Asiatic ...
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Страница 121 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Страница 105 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We, have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Страница 91 - 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 106 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Страница 189 - States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Страница 106 - But, lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Страница 189 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate.
Страница 119 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Страница 87 - They nourished by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons...
Страница 199 - States ; if the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; to fix the standard of weights and measures...