A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-party: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbour in 1773S. S. Bliss, printer, 1834 - 209 Seiten |
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... spirits who contri- buted their full , though honourable share in that great event . Who that loves his country , and reveres its institutions , can ever forget Jasper , who , in the humble office of a sergeant , when the flagstaff of ...
... spirits who contri- buted their full , though honourable share in that great event . Who that loves his country , and reveres its institutions , can ever forget Jasper , who , in the humble office of a sergeant , when the flagstaff of ...
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... spirit , nor unnerved the arm which sixty years age had been outstretched to arrest the progress of lawless power , and fix the inviolable seal of physical force to the great decree , that the people of the then British colonies , but ...
... spirit , nor unnerved the arm which sixty years age had been outstretched to arrest the progress of lawless power , and fix the inviolable seal of physical force to the great decree , that the people of the then British colonies , but ...
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... spirit of our present chief magistrate , that he dared to refuse to brush the boots of a British officer , when he was his prisoner ; so it might be of Hewes , for daring to assert his rights , and to execute justice on the child of one ...
... spirit of our present chief magistrate , that he dared to refuse to brush the boots of a British officer , when he was his prisoner ; so it might be of Hewes , for daring to assert his rights , and to execute justice on the child of one ...
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... spirit impels him to patriotic efforts in the service of his country , nothing would seem to be more depressingly humiliating than to be exclu- ded from an opportunity of developing his faculties for a cause which no human wisdom or ...
... spirit impels him to patriotic efforts in the service of his country , nothing would seem to be more depressingly humiliating than to be exclu- ded from an opportunity of developing his faculties for a cause which no human wisdom or ...
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... spirit of those times will easily lead us to conceive , that the manner of the British officers application to the barber , was a little too strongly tinctured with the dictatorial hauteur , to conciliate the views of equality , which ...
... spirit of those times will easily lead us to conceive , that the manner of the British officers application to the barber , was a little too strongly tinctured with the dictatorial hauteur , to conciliate the views of equality , which ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 207 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 208 - States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Seite 201 - ... 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 7. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign...
Seite 209 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Seite 200 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 198 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Seite 209 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. ,It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Seite 208 - President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution. That after such publication the electors should be appointed and the Senators and Representatives elected ; that the electors should meet on the day fixed for the election of the President, and should transmit their votes, certified, signed, sealed, and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled; that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the...
Seite 200 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings : and, 17.