Biography of Henry ClayS. Hanmer, Jr., and John Jay Phelps, 1831 - 304 Seiten |
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... United States of America , Samuel Hanmer , Jr. and John Jay Phelps , of the said district , have deposited in this office the title of a book , the right whereof they claim as proprietors , in the words following , to wit : " Biography ...
... United States of America , Samuel Hanmer , Jr. and John Jay Phelps , of the said district , have deposited in this office the title of a book , the right whereof they claim as proprietors , in the words following , to wit : " Biography ...
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... United States . This fact is , in part , owing to the manliness and ingenuousness of his character , but it must also be partially ascribed to that unerring cer- tainty with which he reads the thoughts , habits , and feel- ings of those ...
... United States . This fact is , in part , owing to the manliness and ingenuousness of his character , but it must also be partially ascribed to that unerring cer- tainty with which he reads the thoughts , habits , and feel- ings of those ...
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... United States , and a man of high character and great genius . Col. Daviess , in a moment of irritation , had struck a tavern - keeper in Frankfort for some common and trifling remark . To punish the indigni- ty , the tavern - keeper ...
... United States , and a man of high character and great genius . Col. Daviess , in a moment of irritation , had struck a tavern - keeper in Frankfort for some common and trifling remark . To punish the indigni- ty , the tavern - keeper ...
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... United States , Col. Daviess , upon a charge of commencing a military expedi- tion contrary to the federal laws . Young as Mr. Clay then was , it certainly was a high compliment to his talents and legal attainments , that a man of ...
... United States , Col. Daviess , upon a charge of commencing a military expedi- tion contrary to the federal laws . Young as Mr. Clay then was , it certainly was a high compliment to his talents and legal attainments , that a man of ...
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... United States . This circumstance , pla- cing Mr. C. in a new relation to the general government , created some doubt in his mind as to the propriety of his undertaking the defence of a man accused of treason . Το strengthen his ...
... United States . This circumstance , pla- cing Mr. C. in a new relation to the general government , created some doubt in his mind as to the propriety of his undertaking the defence of a man accused of treason . Το strengthen his ...
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Seite 105 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Seite 210 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Seite 176 - Beware how you forfeit this exalted character ! Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Seite 210 - House, respectively, whether it be expedient or not to make provision for the admission of Missouri into the Union on the same footing as the original States, and for the due execution of the laws of the United States within Missouri; and if not, whether any other, and what, provision adapted to her actual condition ought to be made by law.
Seite 105 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Seite 220 - In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest...
Seite 199 - That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana...
Seite 92 - How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence, upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted, by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day.
Seite 100 - ... negotiate the terms of a peace at Quebec or at Halifax. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation, which, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumphed over her, and, if we do not listen to the counsels of timidity and despair, we shall again prevail. In such a cause, with the aid of Providence, we must come out crowned with success. But if we fail, let us fail like men, lash ourselves to our gallant tars, and expire together in one common struggle,...
Seite 99 - What does a state of war present ? The united energies of one People arrayed against the combined energies of another ; a conflict in which each, party aims to inflict all the injury it can, by sea and land, upon the territories, property, and citizens of the other, — subject only to the rules of mitigated war, practised by civilized Nations.