The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, Τόμος 1James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... England's Resistance to the Aggres- sions of the King - A Republic in Fact but Not in Name - The Growth of the Spirit of Independence - The Condition of the Colonies in Detail , and their Adoption of New England Ideas - Preparation for ...
... England's Resistance to the Aggres- sions of the King - A Republic in Fact but Not in Name - The Growth of the Spirit of Independence - The Condition of the Colonies in Detail , and their Adoption of New England Ideas - Preparation for ...
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... England -The Embargo - Retirement from the Presidency ...... Marriage - Family - Home at Monticello ......... Views on Slavery - Pecuniary Troubles - Illness and Death .... ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON . ..410 ..418 .422 Birth and ...
... England -The Embargo - Retirement from the Presidency ...... Marriage - Family - Home at Monticello ......... Views on Slavery - Pecuniary Troubles - Illness and Death .... ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON . ..410 ..418 .422 Birth and ...
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... England idle while these stirring scenes were being enacted by her continental neighbors . Her people were a race of sailors , and Canada , Australia and India to - day speak something the British idea of acquired domain . With the ...
... England idle while these stirring scenes were being enacted by her continental neighbors . Her people were a race of sailors , and Canada , Australia and India to - day speak something the British idea of acquired domain . With the ...
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... England to applaud their deeds , the best of England's sailors were always ready to peril life and limb for the prize . All who came back told the same tale - of seas sheeted in ice , suns that never set , lands where nothing grew ...
... England to applaud their deeds , the best of England's sailors were always ready to peril life and limb for the prize . All who came back told the same tale - of seas sheeted in ice , suns that never set , lands where nothing grew ...
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... England with five vessels ; three years later he sailed back into Plymouth harbor with only one . He had visited the coast of our present California , and , crossing the Pacific ocean , had rounded the Cape of Good Hope , and thus ...
... England with five vessels ; three years later he sailed back into Plymouth harbor with only one . He had visited the coast of our present California , and , crossing the Pacific ocean , had rounded the Cape of Good Hope , and thus ...
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Σελίδα 529 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Σελίδα 264 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Σελίδα 371 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Σελίδα 346 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Σελίδα 228 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which, to me, seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country.
Σελίδα 155 - Sir ; A letter, which I received last night, contained the following paragraph; " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Σελίδα 261 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Σελίδα 228 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Σελίδα 88 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Σελίδα 119 - Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever.