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... right to Oregon up to jects of a treaty , except only — and this fifty - four forty , or as our right to the Rio was the only essential difference-as to the Grande as a boundary — that Mexico is ut- amount of territory to be ceded .
... right to Oregon up to jects of a treaty , except only — and this fifty - four forty , or as our right to the Rio was the only essential difference-as to the Grande as a boundary — that Mexico is ut- amount of territory to be ceded .
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... of setting up the pretence , the claims of our citizens on the justice of that the territory proposed to be ceded that country . was not , at least , equal to the amount of Here , then , we have the important fact these claims .
... of setting up the pretence , the claims of our citizens on the justice of that the territory proposed to be ceded that country . was not , at least , equal to the amount of Here , then , we have the important fact these claims .
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... in regard to these of indemnity for three or five millions at claims , manifested by our not having long most , the demand was for indemnity to and long ago asserted our rights by force ; the amount of a hundred millions at least ...
... in regard to these of indemnity for three or five millions at claims , manifested by our not having long most , the demand was for indemnity to and long ago asserted our rights by force ; the amount of a hundred millions at least ...
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Mexico was indebted He inserted , in the fifth article , a reference to our citizens in a certain amount — say to the stipulation contained in article eight , four millions of dollars — and this plan pro- in regard to a right of way ...
Mexico was indebted He inserted , in the fifth article , a reference to our citizens in a certain amount — say to the stipulation contained in article eight , four millions of dollars — and this plan pro- in regard to a right of way ...
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After deducting the amount body knows that Texas might as well have of these claims , he offered to pay Mexico extended her limits , by a statutory declaraas much money as the territories he wanted tion — a ridiculous brulem fulmen ...
After deducting the amount body knows that Texas might as well have of these claims , he offered to pay Mexico extended her limits , by a statutory declaraas much money as the territories he wanted tion — a ridiculous brulem fulmen ...
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Página 31 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 96 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Página 19 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 139 - And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Página 154 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 155 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Página 512 - I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they Say, into the grave. — Any alteration, on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant...
Página 573 - I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for HeathclifF resembles the eternal rocks beneath : a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being...
Página 130 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...