History of the United States: From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time : with Additions, Containing History of the British American Provinces, History of Mexico, and the Constitution of the United States ...Ivison and Phinney, 1854 - 429 páginas |
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... thousand miles in circumference , deriving all its importance from its extensive fisheries . The West Indies consist of a large number of islands between North and Sonth America , the most important of which are Cuba , St. Domingo ...
... thousand miles in circumference , deriving all its importance from its extensive fisheries . The West Indies consist of a large number of islands between North and Sonth America , the most important of which are Cuba , St. Domingo ...
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... thousand islands , the largest of which is Luzon , about 400 miles southeast from the coast of China . † The Moluccas , or Spice Islands , are a group of small islands north from New Holland , discovered by the Portuguese in 1511. They ...
... thousand islands , the largest of which is Luzon , about 400 miles southeast from the coast of China . † The Moluccas , or Spice Islands , are a group of small islands north from New Holland , discovered by the Portuguese in 1511. They ...
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... thousand ships . The entrance is so narrow that but one vessel can pass at a time The Flint river is in the western part of Georgia . It joins the Chattahooche a the nothern boundary of Florida , and the two united form the Apalachicola ...
... thousand ships . The entrance is so narrow that but one vessel can pass at a time The Flint river is in the western part of Georgia . It joins the Chattahooche a the nothern boundary of Florida , and the two united form the Apalachicola ...
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... thousand In- dians were slain and their village laid in ashes . 10. The loss of the Spaniards was also great . Many fell in battle , others died of their wounds , lost many of their horses , and all their baggage was consumed in the ...
... thousand In- dians were slain and their village laid in ashes . 10. The loss of the Spaniards was also great . Many fell in battle , others died of their wounds , lost many of their horses , and all their baggage was consumed in the ...
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... thousand ves- sels might anchor in security . † The Saguenay river empties into the St. Lawrence from the north , 130 miles N.E from Quebec . The Isle of Orleans is a fertile island in the St. Lawrence , five miles below Que- bec . It ...
... thousand ves- sels might anchor in security . † The Saguenay river empties into the St. Lawrence from the north , 130 miles N.E from Quebec . The Isle of Orleans is a fertile island in the St. Lawrence , five miles below Que- bec . It ...
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Página 294 - President power to order all such aliens as he should judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or should have reasonable grounds to suspect were concerned in any treasonable or secret machination. against the government, to depart out of the territory of the United States within such time as should be expressed in his order.
Página 421 - From this method of interpreting laws by the reason of them, arises what we call equity, which is thus defined by Grotius : "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient.
Página 210 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. — The latter is our choice. WE HAVE COUNTED THE COST OF THIS CONTEST, AND FIND NOTHING SO DREADFUL AS VOLUNTARY SLAVERY...
Página 413 - To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
Página 149 - ... in love with William Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon should endure.
Página 420 - The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session. SECTION III. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Página 149 - on the broad pathway of good faith and good will ; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love.
Página 196 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Página 198 - to tax America. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of our fellow-subjects, so lost to every sense of virtue as tamely to give up their liberties, would be fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 403 - Constitution of the United States of America PREAMBLE WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic...