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 x
... received the sanction of the greatest power on earth , when Pope Alexander VI . confirmed it by special decree . With DeSoto in Florida and upon the broad Mississippi , Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru , Spain had indeed made a ...
... received the sanction of the greatest power on earth , when Pope Alexander VI . confirmed it by special decree . With DeSoto in Florida and upon the broad Mississippi , Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru , Spain had indeed made a ...
Σελίδα xvii
... received from the crown the right to hold all the land from the St. Croix river to Cape Fear . It was divided into two divisions , the one , the London company , to have control of the southern portion of this territory , and the other ...
... received from the crown the right to hold all the land from the St. Croix river to Cape Fear . It was divided into two divisions , the one , the London company , to have control of the southern portion of this territory , and the other ...
Σελίδα 3
... received absolution from a fat chaplain , joined his ancestors beyond the jurisdiction of living king or bishop . He left behind him no son , and , his daughters marrying , not Wessyngtons , but Temples and Blaykestones , dwelt at the ...
... received absolution from a fat chaplain , joined his ancestors beyond the jurisdiction of living king or bishop . He left behind him no son , and , his daughters marrying , not Wessyngtons , but Temples and Blaykestones , dwelt at the ...
Σελίδα 15
... received it among barbarians and an uncouth set of people . Since you received my letter of October last , I have not slept above three or four nights in a bed . But after walking a good deal all the day , I have lain down before the ...
... received it among barbarians and an uncouth set of people . Since you received my letter of October last , I have not slept above three or four nights in a bed . But after walking a good deal all the day , I have lain down before the ...
Σελίδα 21
... received with the utmost contempt , and he was dismissed to his home , very angry and much humiliated , carrying with him the wampum speech belt which had been the symbol of his amity with the French . The English had now apparently no ...
... received with the utmost contempt , and he was dismissed to his home , very angry and much humiliated , carrying with him the wampum speech belt which had been the symbol of his amity with the French . The English had now apparently no ...
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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.