American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1901 |
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... passing the act . The bill reported by the revisors does not itself contain this proposition ; but an amendment containing it was prepared , to be offered to the legislature whenever the bill should be taken up , and further directing ...
... passing the act . The bill reported by the revisors does not itself contain this proposition ; but an amendment containing it was prepared , to be offered to the legislature whenever the bill should be taken up , and further directing ...
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... passing on the footways . All the streets are furnished with public pumps , in great numbers . At the door of each house are placed two benches , where the family sit at evening to take the fresh air , and amuse themselves in looking at ...
... passing on the footways . All the streets are furnished with public pumps , in great numbers . At the door of each house are placed two benches , where the family sit at evening to take the fresh air , and amuse themselves in looking at ...
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... passed by the lodg- ings of the Vicomte de Noailles , who had fled from the Revolutionists of France . He was standing at the door , and calling to me , asked me what I was doing in town . " Fly , " said he , " as soon as you can , for ...
... passed by the lodg- ings of the Vicomte de Noailles , who had fled from the Revolutionists of France . He was standing at the door , and calling to me , asked me what I was doing in town . " Fly , " said he , " as soon as you can , for ...
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... passed on through these callous spectators until he reached the room in which the committee was assembled , and from whom he obtained the services of a quack doctor , none other being in attendance . They went together to the stable ...
... passed on through these callous spectators until he reached the room in which the committee was assembled , and from whom he obtained the services of a quack doctor , none other being in attendance . They went together to the stable ...
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... passing two or three rapids , and low lands heavily timbered , we entered a small narrow river , leading south into the Salt lake , one mile from the Seneca river . . . . This lake opened most pleasantly before us , six miles in length ...
... passing two or three rapids , and low lands heavily timbered , we entered a small narrow river , leading south into the Salt lake , one mile from the Seneca river . . . . This lake opened most pleasantly before us , six miles in length ...
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Seite 480 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Seite 1 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 313 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Seite 331 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Seite 532 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Seite 207 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Seite 405 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Seite 313 - Confederation, were the less liable to be misconstrued) so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular enumeration which necessarily explains, and limits the general phrases, and so as to consolidate the states by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable result of which would be, to transform the present republican system of the United States into an absolute, or at best, a mixed monarchy. That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable...
Seite 394 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 363 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.