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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... enemy ; enter into alliance , amity and traffic , with the princes of the Moluccas and the isle of Java ; double the famous Cape of Good Hope , arrive at the isle of St. Helena , and , last of all , return home richly laden with the ...
... enemy ; enter into alliance , amity and traffic , with the princes of the Moluccas and the isle of Java ; double the famous Cape of Good Hope , arrive at the isle of St. Helena , and , last of all , return home richly laden with the ...
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... enemy would depart , without making an assault upon the town ; and , thereby , prevent them from gaining honour in their repulse ; an honour , the more desi- rable , as many ladies of exalted rank were anxious ob- servers of the siege ...
... enemy would depart , without making an assault upon the town ; and , thereby , prevent them from gaining honour in their repulse ; an honour , the more desi- rable , as many ladies of exalted rank were anxious ob- servers of the siege ...
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... enemy . The treaty , thus begun in perfidy , was , notwithstanding , productive of signal benefit ; and , in consequence of a subsequent oc- currence , cherished by its victim , with as much attach- ment as it had before experienced his ...
... enemy . The treaty , thus begun in perfidy , was , notwithstanding , productive of signal benefit ; and , in consequence of a subsequent oc- currence , cherished by its victim , with as much attach- ment as it had before experienced his ...
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... enemy . But , here , the long - established practice of civ . ilized monarchies appeared . Hereditary accession had gradually arisen , when the people , having acquired a relish for domestic comforts , no longer sought to enlarge their ...
... enemy . But , here , the long - established practice of civ . ilized monarchies appeared . Hereditary accession had gradually arisen , when the people , having acquired a relish for domestic comforts , no longer sought to enlarge their ...
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... enemy : the shots , however , alarmed the poor natives , who were probably lurking in the neighbourhood , anxious to watch the motions of an enemy , who had in- vaded their territory , and assailed them without reason . Wherefore , in ...
... enemy : the shots , however , alarmed the poor natives , who were probably lurking in the neighbourhood , anxious to watch the motions of an enemy , who had in- vaded their territory , and assailed them without reason . Wherefore , in ...
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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...