History of Congress, biographical and political, المجلد 11848 |
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... honors of the university . In the sum- mer of 1814 he received the promise of a commission in the army , which he was to join in the next campaign , when Mr. Monroe , then Secretary of War , had projected a descent upon Canada with one ...
... honors of the university . In the sum- mer of 1814 he received the promise of a commission in the army , which he was to join in the next campaign , when Mr. Monroe , then Secretary of War , had projected a descent upon Canada with one ...
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... honor , and the virtue of the whole army . It was no more nor less , he thought , than a proposition to place civil politics and party politics in the van of all the honor and all the bravery which adorned our army . " In Europe , " he ...
... honor , and the virtue of the whole army . It was no more nor less , he thought , than a proposition to place civil politics and party politics in the van of all the honor and all the bravery which adorned our army . " In Europe , " he ...
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... honor . His hospitable disposition and fine social qualities are admitted wherever he is known . He is a man of high independence of character - prompt - decided— self - sustained . As a debater , he is eloquent and figurative ...
... honor . His hospitable disposition and fine social qualities are admitted wherever he is known . He is a man of high independence of character - prompt - decided— self - sustained . As a debater , he is eloquent and figurative ...
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... honor , it has felt no fear to encounter single - handed the mightiest power of the earth . The God of battles has not frowned upon the bold design . A causeless , voluntary war , founded upon interest or ambition , can not expect the ...
... honor , it has felt no fear to encounter single - handed the mightiest power of the earth . The God of battles has not frowned upon the bold design . A causeless , voluntary war , founded upon interest or ambition , can not expect the ...
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... honored name . As a general rule , they are on the side of principle and their country ; and if at this moment there ... honor of their country . According to Lord Bolingbroke , this was their character nearly two hundred years ago . It ...
... honored name . As a general rule , they are on the side of principle and their country ; and if at this moment there ... honor of their country . According to Lord Bolingbroke , this was their character nearly two hundred years ago . It ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 375 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 105 - It is agreed, that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall. together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
الصفحة 148 - Britannic majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
الصفحة 148 - Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream to the ocean, with free access into and through the said river or rivers, it being understood that all the usual portages along the line thus described shall, in like manner, be free and open.
الصفحة 92 - European nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our interests that the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
الصفحة 177 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
الصفحة 82 - That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.
الصفحة 106 - Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this Convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
الصفحة 406 - Upon the call of the House, the names of the members shall be called over by the Clerk, and the absentees noted ; after which the names of the absentees shall...
الصفحة 406 - When a member shall be discharged from custody and admitted to his seat, the House shall determine whether such discharge shall be with or without paying fees ; and in like manner, whether a delinquent member, taken into custody by a special messenger, shall, or shall not, be liable to defray the expense of such special messenger.