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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... body . His mind now ranges with delight over the cultivated field of science . His acquaintance with distant regions is enlarged ; he goes abroad to indulge his curiosity , or makes an ideal excursion to amuse his imagi . nation . The ...
... body . His mind now ranges with delight over the cultivated field of science . His acquaintance with distant regions is enlarged ; he goes abroad to indulge his curiosity , or makes an ideal excursion to amuse his imagi . nation . The ...
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... bodies of two men , with singular features , not corresponding with -the inhabitants of Europe , Africa , or Asia . Fully satisfied with the truth of his system . Columbus was impatient to bring it to the test of experiment . The first ...
... bodies of two men , with singular features , not corresponding with -the inhabitants of Europe , Africa , or Asia . Fully satisfied with the truth of his system . Columbus was impatient to bring it to the test of experiment . The first ...
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... body of land - forces , was despatched , to reduce the Virginians to obedience . Berkeley made resistance to this formidable armament ; but could not long maintain so une- qual a contest . He was soon defeated . His gallant con- duct ...
... body of land - forces , was despatched , to reduce the Virginians to obedience . Berkeley made resistance to this formidable armament ; but could not long maintain so une- qual a contest . He was soon defeated . His gallant con- duct ...
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... body ; passions of the one , and imbe- cilities of the other ; which are alike erroneous and un- founded . Having discovered a new world , they think that it should be inhabited by a people wholly different from those of the old , in ...
... body ; passions of the one , and imbe- cilities of the other ; which are alike erroneous and un- founded . Having discovered a new world , they think that it should be inhabited by a people wholly different from those of the old , in ...
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... body of the English , a spirit emi- nently fitted to encounter the dangers , and surmount the obstacles , which , hitherto , had rendered abortive the schemes of the company at Plymouth . To this , are the various settlements in New ...
... body of the English , a spirit emi- nently fitted to encounter the dangers , and surmount the obstacles , which , hitherto , had rendered abortive the schemes of the company at Plymouth . To this , are the various settlements in New ...
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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...