Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events in the History of the Country, from Its Discovery to the Present Time; and a General View of Its Present ConditionN. Watson & Company, 1836 - 508 Seiten |
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... AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1930 L Entered according to the Act of Congress , in the year 1833 , by S. G. GOODRICH , in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts . PREFACE . In writing the Lives of the Presidents of.
... AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1930 L Entered according to the Act of Congress , in the year 1833 , by S. G. GOODRICH , in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts . PREFACE . In writing the Lives of the Presidents of.
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... court , and as a member of the House of Burgesses of his native province . In this body he was never distinguished as a speaker , yet he secured the esteem and confidence of all who knew him , by the firmness and propriety of his ...
... court , and as a member of the House of Burgesses of his native province . In this body he was never distinguished as a speaker , yet he secured the esteem and confidence of all who knew him , by the firmness and propriety of his ...
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... court - house , Washington sent Brigadier Wayne with a thousand men to reinforce his advanced troops . The command of this body was offered to General Lee , who in the exchange of prisoners had been restored to the army . This officer ...
... court - house , Washington sent Brigadier Wayne with a thousand men to reinforce his advanced troops . The command of this body was offered to General Lee , who in the exchange of prisoners had been restored to the army . This officer ...
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... court - martial , of which Lord Stirling was president , Lee was found guilty , and sentenced to be suspended from any command in the armies of the United States for the term of one year . Soon after the battle of Monmouth , the ...
... court - martial , of which Lord Stirling was president , Lee was found guilty , and sentenced to be suspended from any command in the armies of the United States for the term of one year . Soon after the battle of Monmouth , the ...
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... court - martial was here instituted , and this unfortunate officer was condemned to death . General Washington was now called upon to discharge a duty from which he revolted , and it is said that his hand could hardly command his pen ...
... court - martial was here instituted , and this unfortunate officer was condemned to death . General Washington was now called upon to discharge a duty from which he revolted , and it is said that his hand could hardly command his pen ...
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Seite 123 - 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...
Seite 60 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Seite 106 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Seite 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 61 - This, government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Seite 50 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 82 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Seite 107 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Seite 94 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Seite 94 - 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.