The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of the United StatesW.B. Harison, 1896 - 312 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 262 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Seite 139 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.* Speech on Hamilton, March, 183i.
Seite 90 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 252 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Seite 47 - The old fool," said the kind-hearted Charles II., with truth, " has taken away more lives in that naked country, than I, for the murder of my father.
Seite 137 - Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state ; Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury ; Henry Knox, secretary of war ; Edmund Randolph, attorney-general ; and John Jay, chief justice of the United States.
Seite 174 - That ill-organized association is on the eve of dissolution, and the world is speedily to be delivered of the mischievous example of the existence of a government founded on democratic rebellion.
Seite 228 - ... and raising an army menaced Fort Moultrie, the only strong-place where the flag of the United States still floated. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, followed the course of South Carolina, and, on the 9th of February, with her adopted a Constitution under the name of the Confederate States of America, and elected Jefferson Davis president.
Seite 133 - The Legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate, and a House of Representatives.