Charles Sumner; His Complete Works: With Introduction by Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, Volumen15Lee & Shepard, 1900 |
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... character of the ceded posses- sions . A motion by Mr. Fessenden to postpone its further considera- tion was voted down , - Yeas 12 , Nays 29. After further debate , the final question of ratification was put and carried on the same day ...
... character of the ceded posses- sions . A motion by Mr. Fessenden to postpone its further considera- tion was voted down , - Yeas 12 , Nays 29. After further debate , the final question of ratification was put and carried on the same day ...
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... character , I am glad to begin with what is clear and beyond question . I refer to the boundaries fixed by the treaty . Commencing at the parallel of 54 ° 40 ′ north latitude , so famous in our history , the line ascends Portland Canal ...
... character , I am glad to begin with what is clear and beyond question . I refer to the boundaries fixed by the treaty . Commencing at the parallel of 54 ° 40 ′ north latitude , so famous in our history , the line ascends Portland Canal ...
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... character . They are not declared to be " forever , " and do not stand . on any principle of public law . Even if subsisting now , they cannot be onerous . I doubt much if they are sub- sisting now . In succeeding to the Russian ...
... character . They are not declared to be " forever , " and do not stand . on any principle of public law . Even if subsisting now , they cannot be onerous . I doubt much if they are sub- sisting now . In succeeding to the Russian ...
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... character which present themselves at this stage and challenge judgment . These concern nothing less than the unity , power , and grandeur of the Republic , with the exten- sion of its dominion and its institutions . Such con ...
... character which present themselves at this stage and challenge judgment . These concern nothing less than the unity , power , and grandeur of the Republic , with the exten- sion of its dominion and its institutions . Such con ...
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... character of these possessions and their probable value . Here I am obliged to confess a dearth of authentic information easily accessible . Few among us read Russian , so that works in this language are locked up from us . One of these ...
... character of these possessions and their probable value . Here I am obliged to confess a dearth of authentic information easily accessible . Few among us read Russian , so that works in this language are locked up from us . One of these ...
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Página 392 - What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 113 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 278 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 258 - Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Página 309 - Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States...
Página 310 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Página 261 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ; to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ; What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours...
Página 431 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Página 380 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 199 - In consideration of the cession aforesaid, the United States agree to pay at the Treasury in Washington, within ten months after the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, to the diplomatic representative or other agent of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, duly authorized to receive the same, seven million two hundred thousand dollars in gold.