The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Band 2

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Gales and Seaton, 1856

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Seite 1895 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south. Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Seite 1865 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes,' and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South.
Seite 1789 - No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any of the ports of the United States on British vessels, than those payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States...
Seite 2075 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome ! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey. Disposing peace and war, thy own majestic way : To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: — These are imperial arts and worthy thee.
Seite 2189 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Seite 2483 - ... the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States...
Seite 1893 - An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States...
Seite 1769 - A motion to adjourn, and a motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn, shall be always in order: these motions, and the motion to lie on the table, shall be decided without debate.
Seite 1831 - Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of...
Seite 2431 - An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the territory of Missouri...

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