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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Σελίδα vi
... called " Greenland , " that people of his nation might be led to make it their home . Beyond these we must look to those grand old sagas , or written records of Iceland , for evidence that the Norse was here before the Genoan or the ...
... called " Greenland , " that people of his nation might be led to make it their home . Beyond these we must look to those grand old sagas , or written records of Iceland , for evidence that the Norse was here before the Genoan or the ...
Σελίδα xi
... called the Bay of Chaleur ; landed , and raising the cross and the banner of France over the new land , took possession of it in the name of his king . The next year he was sent forth with a still larger following . Pushing cautiously ...
... called the Bay of Chaleur ; landed , and raising the cross and the banner of France over the new land , took possession of it in the name of his king . The next year he was sent forth with a still larger following . Pushing cautiously ...
Σελίδα xvi
... called it Cape Cod- which name it has retained to this day . He discovered the islands of Elizabeth and Martha's Vineyard . The ship was laden with furs and sassafras , bartered from the Indians , and made preparations to leave a colony ...
... called it Cape Cod- which name it has retained to this day . He discovered the islands of Elizabeth and Martha's Vineyard . The ship was laden with furs and sassafras , bartered from the Indians , and made preparations to leave a colony ...
Σελίδα xvii
... called Charlestown , and Shawmutt , afterwards called Boston , and , having made discovery of the land , rivers , coves and creeks in the said bay , and also taken some observation of the manners , dis- positions and sundry customs of ...
... called Charlestown , and Shawmutt , afterwards called Boston , and , having made discovery of the land , rivers , coves and creeks in the said bay , and also taken some observation of the manners , dis- positions and sundry customs of ...
Σελίδα xxviii
... called assistants . " While the colony of Massachusetts bay was organized under a charter from the king , in its real manage ment , it was of the same nature as that of Plymouth . In 1630 , when the charter and government were ...
... called assistants . " While the colony of Massachusetts bay was organized under a charter from the king , in its real manage ment , it was of the same nature as that of Plymouth . In 1630 , when the charter and government were ...
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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.