History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Band 6D. Appleton, 1885 |
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... . Abounding harvests of scientific discovery have been garnered by numberless inquisitive minds , and the wild- est forces of nature have been taught to become the CHAPTER I A RETROSPECT MOVEMENTS TOWARD UNION 1643-1781.
... . Abounding harvests of scientific discovery have been garnered by numberless inquisitive minds , and the wild- est forces of nature have been taught to become the CHAPTER I A RETROSPECT MOVEMENTS TOWARD UNION 1643-1781.
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... mind that on the twenty - fourth day of December 1779 , on occasion of some unwise proceedings of congress , she had resolved " that the legislature of this commonwealth are greatly alarmed at the assumption of power lately exercised by ...
... mind that on the twenty - fourth day of December 1779 , on occasion of some unwise proceedings of congress , she had resolved " that the legislature of this commonwealth are greatly alarmed at the assumption of power lately exercised by ...
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... mind to pass through this process of reasoning . The conviction that the confederacy could propose no remedy for its weakness but the impractica- ble one of the coercion of sovereign states compelled the search for a really efficient ...
... mind to pass through this process of reasoning . The conviction that the confederacy could propose no remedy for its weakness but the impractica- ble one of the coercion of sovereign states compelled the search for a really efficient ...
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... mind by day or by night . When , on the fifth of December , in his speech at the opening of parliament , he came to read that he had offered to declare the colonies of America free and inde- pendent states , his manner was constrained ...
... mind by day or by night . When , on the fifth of December , in his speech at the opening of parliament , he came to read that he had offered to declare the colonies of America free and inde- pendent states , his manner was constrained ...
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... mind that he had sought in vain the support of Pitt ; had defied the king ; and had joined him- self to colleagues whom he had taught liberal Englishmen to despise , and whom he himself could not trust . In the slowly advancing changes ...
... mind that he had sought in vain the support of Pitt ; had defied the king ; and had joined him- self to colleagues whom he had taught liberal Englishmen to despise , and whom he himself could not trust . In the slowly advancing changes ...
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Seite 472 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as .deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Seite 218 - Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the National Legislature, the Articles of Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Union...
Seite 148 - I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power.
Seite 106 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 390 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Seite 321 - I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.
Seite 374 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Seite 158 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...
Seite 45 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Seite 365 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention, who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.