HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT1856 |
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... gave its youth to the teachings of Immanuel Kant , who , for power of analysis and universality , was infe- rior to none since Aristotle . " An army and a treasure do not constitute a power , " said Vergennes ; but Prussia had also ...
... gave its youth to the teachings of Immanuel Kant , who , for power of analysis and universality , was infe- rior to none since Aristotle . " An army and a treasure do not constitute a power , " said Vergennes ; but Prussia had also ...
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... gave the style alike to its highest efforts and to its ordinary manufactures ; to its poetry and its prose ; to the tragedies of Racine and the pictures of Poussin , as well as to its products of taste for daily use , and the adornment ...
... gave the style alike to its highest efforts and to its ordinary manufactures ; to its poetry and its prose ; to the tragedies of Racine and the pictures of Poussin , as well as to its products of taste for daily use , and the adornment ...
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... gave leave to elect , named also the person to be chosen , and obedience to its nomination was enforced by the penalties of a premunire . The laity , too , had destroyed the convents and monasteries which , under other social forms ...
... gave leave to elect , named also the person to be chosen , and obedience to its nomination was enforced by the penalties of a premunire . The laity , too , had destroyed the convents and monasteries which , under other social forms ...
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... gave England its national- ity and greatness . As a consequence , they thought themselves superior to every other nation . The Frenchman loved France , and when away from it , longed to return to it , as the only country where life ...
... gave England its national- ity and greatness . As a consequence , they thought themselves superior to every other nation . The Frenchman loved France , and when away from it , longed to return to it , as the only country where life ...
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... gave him no hearty sup- port ; nearly every member of the cabinet which he himself had formed was secretly or openly against him . " The ground I tread upon , " said he , " is hol- low ; " he might well be " afraid of falling ; " and if ...
... gave him no hearty sup- port ; nearly every member of the cabinet which he himself had formed was secretly or openly against him . " The ground I tread upon , " said he , " is hol- low ; " he might well be " afraid of falling ; " and if ...
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Página 395 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation, that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 75 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 394 - 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 391 - The gentleman tells us, 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.
Página 4 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice ; And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Página 345 - You have rights antecedent to all earthly government ; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws ; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.
Página 395 - Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Página 384 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Página 385 - Great Britain, give and grant to Your Majesty, what? Our own property? No. We give and grant to Your Majesty, the property of Your Majesty's Commons of America.
Página 385 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here ? Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation...