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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... , detail of descrip- tion , liberality of judgment and breadth of purpose that no previous attempt has reached . Beginning with the days that connect our i earliest American history with tradition and romance , all the 11-10-25.
... , detail of descrip- tion , liberality of judgment and breadth of purpose that no previous attempt has reached . Beginning with the days that connect our i earliest American history with tradition and romance , all the 11-10-25.
Σελίδα viii
... tion that set sail from the port of Palos on the third of August , 1492 . Columbus stands forth upon the page of human history with a dis- tinctness that casts Bjarni and even Eric the Red into the shadow , and the prize he won for ...
... tion that set sail from the port of Palos on the third of August , 1492 . Columbus stands forth upon the page of human history with a dis- tinctness that casts Bjarni and even Eric the Red into the shadow , and the prize he won for ...
Σελίδα x
... tion of mankind . Columbus merely touched the outer shore , and sailed back to Spain to find that Diaz , the Portuguese mariner , had found the Cape of Good Hope . These were great events , that grew no less great when the monarchs of ...
... tion of mankind . Columbus merely touched the outer shore , and sailed back to Spain to find that Diaz , the Portuguese mariner , had found the Cape of Good Hope . These were great events , that grew no less great when the monarchs of ...
Σελίδα xxxiii
... tion , while the main balance of power was lodged in the proprietary corporation . One attempt was made to establish a despotic form of government , but the people resisted and it ended in failure . " They established a republican ...
... tion , while the main balance of power was lodged in the proprietary corporation . One attempt was made to establish a despotic form of government , but the people resisted and it ended in failure . " They established a republican ...
Σελίδα xxxiv
... tion , led to discontent , and finally so widened the breach that there could be no peace . " In their earlier and weaker days , " as one histo- rian has well said , " these evils were of secondary importance , but with every step of ...
... tion , led to discontent , and finally so widened the breach that there could be no peace . " In their earlier and weaker days , " as one histo- rian has well said , " these evils were of secondary importance , but with every step of ...
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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.