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, Band 4James Harrison Kennedy N.G. Hamilton Publishing Company, 1895 |
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... American armies have been disastrously repulsed , nor until a third , under General Wayne , has annihilated the savage power . Willingly we allow so grewsome a canvas to be rolled up from our sight that we may open the record book of ...
... American armies have been disastrously repulsed , nor until a third , under General Wayne , has annihilated the savage power . Willingly we allow so grewsome a canvas to be rolled up from our sight that we may open the record book of ...
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... America , was such tempting promise held out for the acceptance of honest industry . It was a hard life the pioneers led in the woods , but every acre which they brought under cultivation added to the value of their ... AMERICAN NATION .
... America , was such tempting promise held out for the acceptance of honest industry . It was a hard life the pioneers led in the woods , but every acre which they brought under cultivation added to the value of their ... AMERICAN NATION .
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... American con- stitutions , and which enables new ideas to assert their supremacy without the revolutionary violence that might be a necessary con- comitant in some other countries . The period was one of uneasiness and unrest the world ...
... American con- stitutions , and which enables new ideas to assert their supremacy without the revolutionary violence that might be a necessary con- comitant in some other countries . The period was one of uneasiness and unrest the world ...
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... American colonies at the time they first set British power at defiance in refusing to yield obedience to the Stamp act . In fifty years the state has added to its population as much as the continent did in the first one hundred and ...
... American colonies at the time they first set British power at defiance in refusing to yield obedience to the Stamp act . In fifty years the state has added to its population as much as the continent did in the first one hundred and ...
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... America . There is good reason for believing that its purpose was , if war had been declared with Spain , to march its troops through the western territories and seize upon Louisiana . The Spanish min- ister alleged ... AMERICAN NATION .
... America . There is good reason for believing that its purpose was , if war had been declared with Spain , to march its troops through the western territories and seize upon Louisiana . The Spanish min- ister alleged ... AMERICAN NATION .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 723 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever ; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Seite 717 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Seite 711 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance. in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can...
Seite 712 - Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 724 - ... clothe, arm, and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared. And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on, by the United States in Congress assembled.
Seite 715 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend...
Seite 725 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Seite 724 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Seite 723 - States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Seite 613 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.