American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1901 |
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... thing that is called fashion in the utmost contempt , yet they are as difficult to please , and as extravagant in the choice and price of their knives , as any young buck in Boston would be about his hat , buckles , or coat . As the sea ...
... thing that is called fashion in the utmost contempt , yet they are as difficult to please , and as extravagant in the choice and price of their knives , as any young buck in Boston would be about his hat , buckles , or coat . As the sea ...
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... Things in Virginia ( 1787 ) BY LUCINDA LEE Lucinda Lee , the probable writer of this journal , was the daughter of Thomas Ludwell Lee , niece of Richard Henry Lee , and ... Things in Virginia Lucinda Lee: Young Things in Virginia, 1787.
... Things in Virginia ( 1787 ) BY LUCINDA LEE Lucinda Lee , the probable writer of this journal , was the daughter of Thomas Ludwell Lee , niece of Richard Henry Lee , and ... Things in Virginia Lucinda Lee: Young Things in Virginia, 1787.
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... thing we wanted to compleat our happiness ! . . . [ 5. ] Mr. Pinkard and a Mr. Lee came here to - day from the Freder- icksburg races . How sorry I was to hear " Republican " was beaten . I was really interested in that race . Adieu . I ...
... thing we wanted to compleat our happiness ! . . . [ 5. ] Mr. Pinkard and a Mr. Lee came here to - day from the Freder- icksburg races . How sorry I was to hear " Republican " was beaten . I was really interested in that race . Adieu . I ...
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... thing . [ 12. ] I am going to tell you a little piece of a secret ; but you must never mention it . Nancy had an ... Things in Virginia.
... thing . [ 12. ] I am going to tell you a little piece of a secret ; but you must never mention it . Nancy had an ... Things in Virginia.
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... thing in this street bears the marks of a town still in its infancy , but which , even in its infancy , enjoys a great prosperity . • You no longer meet here that Presbyterian austerity , which inter- dicted all pleasures , even that of ...
... thing in this street bears the marks of a town still in its infancy , but which , even in its infancy , enjoys a great prosperity . • You no longer meet here that Presbyterian austerity , which inter- dicted all pleasures , even that of ...
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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.