The United States of America ...Ginn, 1922 - 803 páginas |
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... minister's vivid description of the everlasting torture into which he would presently be launched as the noose tightened around his neck . For the age was not delicate in act or speech . In most of the colonies a score and more of ...
... minister's vivid description of the everlasting torture into which he would presently be launched as the noose tightened around his neck . For the age was not delicate in act or speech . In most of the colonies a score and more of ...
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... ministers during the fifteen years pre- ceding the outbreak of the war - and they deserve their full share of blame . At the same time , however , we must remember the failure of the Whig lords during their long tenure of power in the ...
... ministers during the fifteen years pre- ceding the outbreak of the war - and they deserve their full share of blame . At the same time , however , we must remember the failure of the Whig lords during their long tenure of power in the ...
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... minister Colbert " never to give corporate form to the inhabitants of Canada . " It was not alone two races , then , or two territorial rivals that clashed in the mighty conflict between France and England for the North American ...
... minister Colbert " never to give corporate form to the inhabitants of Canada . " It was not alone two races , then , or two territorial rivals that clashed in the mighty conflict between France and England for the North American ...
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... minister , and in October , 1761 , William Pitt resigned the seals . It was of momentous consequence to the American colonies that the great statesman who is ranked with Washington as a builder of our nation fell from power at just the ...
... minister , and in October , 1761 , William Pitt resigned the seals . It was of momentous consequence to the American colonies that the great statesman who is ranked with Washington as a builder of our nation fell from power at just the ...
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... ministry or cabinet , was opposed to the colonial emphasis on local authorities in assembly , vestry , or town meeting ... minister and the abandonment of his policy . The new young king was in the hands of the Tories , insistent on his ...
... ministry or cabinet , was opposed to the colonial emphasis on local authorities in assembly , vestry , or town meeting ... minister and the abandonment of his policy . The new young king was in the hands of the Tories , insistent on his ...
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Página 114 - Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward:" provided also that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States.
Página 137 - 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...
Página 326 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power; submitting to injuries from none.
Página 364 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 324 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Página 509 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 181 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Página 509 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 610 - I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women ; but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Página 617 - Mexico, and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America under the auspices of any European power.