A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: In Six LecturesLongman and Company, 1842 - 192 páginas |
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... Never was a colony planted with less apparent pros- pect of success , but with higher and holier aims ; and the result is a glorious and instructive lesson to nations : for may not the words of the inspired prophet be applied ...
... Never was a colony planted with less apparent pros- pect of success , but with higher and holier aims ; and the result is a glorious and instructive lesson to nations : for may not the words of the inspired prophet be applied ...
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... British cabinet all came too late , were in them- selves insufficient , and consequently they were unavail- ing . The vicious principle of taxing the unrepresented colonies was never conceded . In 1775 civil war began LECTURE I. 13.
... British cabinet all came too late , were in them- selves insufficient , and consequently they were unavail- ing . The vicious principle of taxing the unrepresented colonies was never conceded . In 1775 civil war began LECTURE I. 13.
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In Six Lectures Peter Freeland Aiken. colonies was never conceded . In 1775 civil war began at Lexington . Yet even then , if the Americans had been promptly restored to their rights as British sub- jects , a final separation might have ...
In Six Lectures Peter Freeland Aiken. colonies was never conceded . In 1775 civil war began at Lexington . Yet even then , if the Americans had been promptly restored to their rights as British sub- jects , a final separation might have ...
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... never would be : for what could a few poor Indians do against such well - skilled men of business as the whites ? There were but twenty thousand of the Choctaws left , he said , and their number was decreasing every day . A few of his ...
... never would be : for what could a few poor Indians do against such well - skilled men of business as the whites ? There were but twenty thousand of the Choctaws left , he said , and their number was decreasing every day . A few of his ...
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... never come . Still , let a fair compari- son be made between the condition of the people of England and those of other countries , and it will be found that none of them possess the elements of social happiness in greater measure than ...
... never come . Still , let a fair compari- son be made between the condition of the people of England and those of other countries , and it will be found that none of them possess the elements of social happiness in greater measure than ...
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Página 140 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Página 62 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.
Página 10 - Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate...
Página 58 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Página 9 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith...
Página 10 - ... without shelter : without means : surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science ! in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician ! how long did the shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant...
Página 46 - States, and as the facility and excess of law-making seem to be the diseases to which our governments are most liable, it is not impossible that this part of the Constitution may be more convenient in practice than it appears to many in contemplation.
Página 32 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
Página 64 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Página 153 - It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.