An Historical, Topographical, and Statistical View of the United States of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen1J. Ridgway, 1819 |
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... person inspired by Heaven with fagacity and fortitude more than human , in order to accomplish a design , so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages . As foon as the fun arofe , all their boats were manned and armed ...
... person inspired by Heaven with fagacity and fortitude more than human , in order to accomplish a design , so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages . As foon as the fun arofe , all their boats were manned and armed ...
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... person took charge of them . By his orders they were all de- pofited in one place , and armed centinels were pofted , who kept the multitude at a distance , in order to prevent them not only from embez- zling , but from infpecting too ...
... person took charge of them . By his orders they were all de- pofited in one place , and armed centinels were pofted , who kept the multitude at a distance , in order to prevent them not only from embez- zling , but from infpecting too ...
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... person who should deliver it sealed , so that if any foreigners found it , the promised reward might pre- vail on them not to give the information to another . I then caused a great cask to be brought to me , and wrapping up the ...
... person who should deliver it sealed , so that if any foreigners found it , the promised reward might pre- vail on them not to give the information to another . I then caused a great cask to be brought to me , and wrapping up the ...
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... persons of his court , ftanding as their godfathers . Those first fruits of the New World have not been followed by such an increase as pious men wished , and had reafon to expect . Ferdinand and Isabella having thus acquired a title ...
... persons of his court , ftanding as their godfathers . Those first fruits of the New World have not been followed by such an increase as pious men wished , and had reafon to expect . Ferdinand and Isabella having thus acquired a title ...
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... person to whom this important truft was committed . But in this choice they seem to have been more influenced by the obfequious at- tachment of the man to their intereft , than by his capacity for the fta- tion . Puffed up with fuch ...
... person to whom this important truft was committed . But in this choice they seem to have been more influenced by the obfequious at- tachment of the man to their intereft , than by his capacity for the fta- tion . Puffed up with fuch ...
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Página 210 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.
Página 134 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 134 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have...
Página 221 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Página 208 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 134 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 464 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Página 175 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Página 207 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Página 176 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...