Proceedings in the Senate and House of Representatives Upon the Reception and Acceptance from the State of Maryland of the Statues of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and of John Hanson: Erected in Statuary Hall of the CapitolU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 111 страници |
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... authority of the act of the general assembly of Maryland , the gov- ernor appointed John Lee Carroll , Douglas H. Thomas , Thomas J. Shryock , Fabian Franklin , and Richard K. Cross to constitute a commission to procure and have the ...
... authority of the act of the general assembly of Maryland , the gov- ernor appointed John Lee Carroll , Douglas H. Thomas , Thomas J. Shryock , Fabian Franklin , and Richard K. Cross to constitute a commission to procure and have the ...
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... authority of our great Declaration and the pure fame of the men who framed it and who signed it and who pledged to it their life , fortune , and sacred honor will remain so long as the Republic shall endure . Among them there is no ...
... authority of our great Declaration and the pure fame of the men who framed it and who signed it and who pledged to it their life , fortune , and sacred honor will remain so long as the Republic shall endure . Among them there is no ...
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... authority of law . The judges , who were appointees of the Crown , very promptly and , from a superficial legal standpoint , very properly decided that the King having vetoed the act it was void , and all proceedings taken by virtue of ...
... authority of law . The judges , who were appointees of the Crown , very promptly and , from a superficial legal standpoint , very properly decided that the King having vetoed the act it was void , and all proceedings taken by virtue of ...
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... authority from the governed . The world was astonished ; Britain was stunned by the blow ; Metternich , the statesman of the old school , who was guiding the fortunes and diplomacy of continental Europe , laughed and said that " a ...
... authority from the governed . The world was astonished ; Britain was stunned by the blow ; Metternich , the statesman of the old school , who was guiding the fortunes and diplomacy of continental Europe , laughed and said that " a ...
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... authority of the act of the general assembly of Maryland , the gover- nor appointed John Lee Carroll , Douglas H. Thomas , Thomas J. Shryock , Fabian Franklin , and Richard K. Cross to constitute a commission to procure and have the ...
... authority of the act of the general assembly of Maryland , the gover- nor appointed John Lee Carroll , Douglas H. Thomas , Thomas J. Shryock , Fabian Franklin , and Richard K. Cross to constitute a commission to procure and have the ...
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Страница 15 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Страница 33 - Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
Страница 21 - Venerable object ! we delight to gather round its trunk, while yet it stands, and to dwell beneath its shadow. Sole survivor of an assembly of as great men as the world has witnessed, in a transaction one of the most important that history records, what thoughts, what interesting reflections, must fill his elevated and devout soul ! If he dwell on the past...
Страница 24 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Страница 22 - If he dwell on the past, how touching its recollections ; if he survey the present, how happy, how joyous, how full of the fruition of that hope, which his ardent patriotism indulged ; if he glance at the future, how does the prospect of his country's advancement almost bewilder his weakened conception ! Fortunate, distinguished patriot ! Interesting relic of the past ! Let him know that while we honor the dead, we do not forget the living ; and that there is not a heart here which does not fervently...
Страница 11 - That what may be recommended by a majority of the Congress, equally delegated by the people of the United Colonies we -will at the hazard of our lives and...
Страница 100 - If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to our mountains and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion : until, tired of combating, in vain, against a spirit which victory after victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. — No. sir, — we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle, and though much blood may be spilt. we have no doubt...
Страница 26 - ... grace which I can never forget. In the ninety-fifth year of his age, as he was, and within a few months of his death, it is not surprising that there should be little for me to recall of that interview, save his eager inquiries about James Madison, whom I had just visited at Montpelier, and his affectionate allusions to John Adams, who had gone before him; and save, too, the exceeding satisfaction for myself of having seen and pressed the hand of the last surviving signer of the Declaration.
Страница 103 - Two names have been in every one's mouth of late, and men have exhausted language in trying to express their admiration and their respect. The courts have covered the grave of Mr. Choate with eulogy. Let us see what is their idea of a great lawyer. We are told that
Страница 7 - ... and urge all Christians to refrain from weakening the authority of the administration by ill-timed complaints and unnecessary criticisms, fully believing that...