History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Period of the Fifth Census, in 1830: Comprising Every Important Political Event ...Grigg & Elliot, 1840 - 326 من الصفحات |
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... appoint- ed three eminent cosmographers to examine the merits of his plan . But these men , after drawing from Columbus all the information that treachery could devise , or their capa- cities understand , basely conspired to rob the ...
... appoint- ed three eminent cosmographers to examine the merits of his plan . But these men , after drawing from Columbus all the information that treachery could devise , or their capa- cities understand , basely conspired to rob the ...
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... sea - captains , and most eminent merchants of the age ; by which means , his knowledge be- came extensive and correct . Appointed to acconipany the queen's ambassador to the court of Paris , during the 24 HISTORY OF CHAPTER III. ...
... sea - captains , and most eminent merchants of the age ; by which means , his knowledge be- came extensive and correct . Appointed to acconipany the queen's ambassador to the court of Paris , during the 24 HISTORY OF CHAPTER III. ...
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... appointed in England one of the council ; and all willingly devolved on him the government ; an au- thority much greater than that of which , on their arrival , they had unjustly deprived him . A character so distinguished in the annals ...
... appointed in England one of the council ; and all willingly devolved on him the government ; an au- thority much greater than that of which , on their arrival , they had unjustly deprived him . A character so distinguished in the annals ...
الصفحة 28
... appointed by lot , and fate selected the intrepid Smith . - The combat soon commenced , and soon the Turk paid the forfeit of his head : the ladies were desirous of another trial , and again Smith was rewarded with a head ; the request ...
... appointed by lot , and fate selected the intrepid Smith . - The combat soon commenced , and soon the Turk paid the forfeit of his head : the ladies were desirous of another trial , and again Smith was rewarded with a head ; the request ...
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... appointed lord Delaware : but , as this nobleman could not immediately leave England , sir Thomas Gates and sir George Summers , the former of whom had been chosen lieutenant general , the latter , admiral , were despatched , with five ...
... appointed lord Delaware : but , as this nobleman could not immediately leave England , sir Thomas Gates and sir George Summers , the former of whom had been chosen lieutenant general , the latter , admiral , were despatched , with five ...
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الصفحة 121 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
الصفحة 105 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We, have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
الصفحة 91 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
الصفحة 106 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
الصفحة 189 - States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
الصفحة 106 - But, lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
الصفحة 189 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate.
الصفحة 119 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 87 - They nourished by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons...
الصفحة 199 - States ; if the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; to fix the standard of weights and measures...