Readings in American HistoryGinn, 1921 - 604 páginas |
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... never see it on account of its great elevation and the thickness of the clouds , and on account of the weakness of our eyes . The heaven encloses in its bosom all the world , and it ever turns about us , swifter than any mill - wheel ...
... never see it on account of its great elevation and the thickness of the clouds , and on account of the weakness of our eyes . The heaven encloses in its bosom all the world , and it ever turns about us , swifter than any mill - wheel ...
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... never lose their foliage ; as may be imagined , since I saw them as green and as beautiful as they are in Spain during May . . . . And the nightingale was singing , and other birds of a thousand sorts , in the month of November .... In ...
... never lose their foliage ; as may be imagined , since I saw them as green and as beautiful as they are in Spain during May . . . . And the nightingale was singing , and other birds of a thousand sorts , in the month of November .... In ...
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... never again undertake to perform such a voyage .. ... Saturday , the 16th of March 1521 , we arrived at daybreak in sight of a high island . . . named Zamal.1 The next day the captain - general . . . set up two tents on shore for the ...
... never again undertake to perform such a voyage .. ... Saturday , the 16th of March 1521 , we arrived at daybreak in sight of a high island . . . named Zamal.1 The next day the captain - general . . . set up two tents on shore for the ...
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... never have the grace to set fast footing in such fertill and temperate places as are left as yet unpossessed of them . " Two years later , on the fail- ure of Gilbert's expedition and the transfer of his patent ( No. 8 , p . 19 ) to Sir ...
... never have the grace to set fast footing in such fertill and temperate places as are left as yet unpossessed of them . " Two years later , on the fail- ure of Gilbert's expedition and the transfer of his patent ( No. 8 , p . 19 ) to Sir ...
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... never brought against short hair . . . . The 1 Sir Harry Vane , Governor of Massachusetts 1636–1637 , su Anne Hutchinson in theological heresy . He played a leading the English Civil War of 1642 , and was executed twenty yea by Charles ...
... never brought against short hair . . . . The 1 Sir Harry Vane , Governor of Massachusetts 1636–1637 , su Anne Hutchinson in theological heresy . He played a leading the English Civil War of 1642 , and was executed twenty yea by Charles ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 408 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 276 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 384 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 177 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 253 - We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Página 236 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Página 253 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments...
Página 384 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Página 244 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Página 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.