Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Том 8R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 - 340 страници |
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... present year , over and above the emission of bills of credit ; to devise the ways and means for raising ten millions of dollars ; to repair to head quarters near New York , and inquire into the state of the army and the best means of ...
... present year , over and above the emission of bills of credit ; to devise the ways and means for raising ten millions of dollars ; to repair to head quarters near New York , and inquire into the state of the army and the best means of ...
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... present war , concluding peace , contracting alliances , establishing commerce , and guarding against any future encroachments and machi- nations of their enemies ; with power to adjourn to such time and places , as shall appear most ...
... present war , concluding peace , contracting alliances , establishing commerce , and guarding against any future encroachments and machi- nations of their enemies ; with power to adjourn to such time and places , as shall appear most ...
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... present contest ; either by granting to their officers half pay for life , and proper rewards to their soldiers ; or in such other manner as may appear most expedient to the legislatures of the several states . Resolved , that it be ...
... present contest ; either by granting to their officers half pay for life , and proper rewards to their soldiers ; or in such other manner as may appear most expedient to the legislatures of the several states . Resolved , that it be ...
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... present system , and had organized it almost as well , though they had not the assistance of clerks and other conveniences , as at present . Any man who will look into the journals of the old congress , may see the organization , and ...
... present system , and had organized it almost as well , though they had not the assistance of clerks and other conveniences , as at present . Any man who will look into the journals of the old congress , may see the organization , and ...
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... present themselves to their notice . The fortune of every citizen is interested in the success thereof ; for it is the constant source of wealth and incentive to indus- try ; and the value of our produce and our land must ever rise or ...
... present themselves to their notice . The fortune of every citizen is interested in the success thereof ; for it is the constant source of wealth and incentive to indus- try ; and the value of our produce and our land must ever rise or ...
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Страница 161 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Страница 145 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Страница 31 - 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 133 - England, sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Страница 26 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Страница 143 - Britain; and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies for the preservation of internal peace, virtue and good order, as well as for the defence of their lives, liberties and properties, against the hostile invasions and cruel depredations of their enemies...
Страница 167 - The king replied, as quick as lightning, " An honest man will never have any other.
Страница 93 - It will be all over with me in a moment ; but you will be kicking in the air half an hour after I am gone.
Страница 145 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it.