A History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, to the Present Time: Embracing an Account of the Aboriginal Tribes, Their Origin, Population, Employments, Arts, Dress, Religion, Government, Etc. ...H. F. Sumner, 1833 - 540 páginas |
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... miles south- west from Lisbon . * The father of his wife being dead , Columbus resided Irving's Columbus , to which the author is indebted for the principal facts in this biographical sketch of this extraordinary man . with his mother ...
... miles south- west from Lisbon . * The father of his wife being dead , Columbus resided Irving's Columbus , to which the author is indebted for the principal facts in this biographical sketch of this extraordinary man . with his mother ...
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... miles of Spain , a tempest of no ordinary violence came on , and con- tinued to increase in fury for several days . During its con- tinuance , the vessels were separated , and the crew of each supposed their companions had found a ...
... miles of Spain , a tempest of no ordinary violence came on , and con- tinued to increase in fury for several days . During its con- tinuance , the vessels were separated , and the crew of each supposed their companions had found a ...
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... miles from its mouth . The object of Soto in traversing so wide an extent of country , appears to have been to search for gold . The sum- mer and winter of 1539 , he spent in Florida . In 1540 , he began his tour northeast , and having ...
... miles from its mouth . The object of Soto in traversing so wide an extent of country , appears to have been to search for gold . The sum- mer and winter of 1539 , he spent in Florida . In 1540 , he began his tour northeast , and having ...
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... miles distant from each other , and between them are two islands less than twenty miles distant from either shore . REFLECTIONS . Sec . 11. We shall find it pleasant and profitable , occasion- ally to pause in our history , and consider ...
... miles distant from each other , and between them are two islands less than twenty miles distant from either shore . REFLECTIONS . Sec . 11. We shall find it pleasant and profitable , occasion- ally to pause in our history , and consider ...
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... miles each way from their place of ha bitation ; reaching one hundred miles into the country . The Plymouth company consisted of Thomas Hanham , Raleigh Gilbert , William Parker , George Popham , and others , prin- * Trumbull . cipally ...
... miles each way from their place of ha bitation ; reaching one hundred miles into the country . The Plymouth company consisted of Thomas Hanham , Raleigh Gilbert , William Parker , George Popham , and others , prin- * Trumbull . cipally ...
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Página 380 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 327 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Página 493 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Página 381 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 367 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Página 380 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Página 119 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Página 313 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Página 207 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Página 207 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.