North America, الجزء 1James Duncan, 1830 |
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الصفحة 88
... officers of the Company should be a governor , a deputy - governor , and eighteen assistants , to be named , in the first instance , by the Crown , and afterwards elected by the corporation . Four stated meetings of all the members were ...
... officers of the Company should be a governor , a deputy - governor , and eighteen assistants , to be named , in the first instance , by the Crown , and afterwards elected by the corporation . Four stated meetings of all the members were ...
الصفحة 89
... officers prescribed by the charter were elected , and several ordinances were adapted for the government of the Company . Three hundred people were sent over , of whom one hundred , dissatisfied with the situation of Salem , removed to ...
... officers prescribed by the charter were elected , and several ordinances were adapted for the government of the Company . Three hundred people were sent over , of whom one hundred , dissatisfied with the situation of Salem , removed to ...
الصفحة 102
... officers of the colony were to be annually elected ; and it was declared , that the word of God should be the only rule for ordering the affairs of the commonwealth . Such was the original constitution of New - haven ; 9 but , as the ...
... officers of the colony were to be annually elected ; and it was declared , that the word of God should be the only rule for ordering the affairs of the commonwealth . Such was the original constitution of New - haven ; 9 but , as the ...
الصفحة 129
... officers and soldiers bound themselves by a solemn compact to support each other in resisting the tyranny of the Proprietors . The Assembly , which was then in session , presented an address to the Governor , inviting him to administer ...
... officers and soldiers bound themselves by a solemn compact to support each other in resisting the tyranny of the Proprietors . The Assembly , which was then in session , presented an address to the Governor , inviting him to administer ...
الصفحة 139
... officers fre- quently entreated him to scour the surrounding thick- ets . But he held these officers and the enemy in too much contempt to listen to this salutary counsel . On approaching Fort Du Quesne , Colonel Washington , who ...
... officers fre- quently entreated him to scour the surrounding thick- ets . But he held these officers and the enemy in too much contempt to listen to this salutary counsel . On approaching Fort Du Quesne , Colonel Washington , who ...
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الصفحة 326 - ... but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been...
الصفحة 236 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 326 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
الصفحة 231 - ... and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth and rising again into the air. It was connected with...
الصفحة 236 - Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky...
الصفحة 337 - Forasmuch as the maintenance of good literature doth much tend to the advancement of the weal and flourishing state of societies and republics, this Court doth therefore order, that in whatever township in this government, consisting of fifty families or upwards, any meet man shall be obtained to teach a grammar school, such township shall allow at least twelve pounds, to be raised by rate on all the inhabitants.
الصفحة 153 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
الصفحة 191 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing two millions, we shall find we have millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
الصفحة 232 - A few rough logs, laid side by side, served for a bridge over this stream. On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grapevines, threw a cavernous gloom over it.
الصفحة 88 - Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.