American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1901 |
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... answer for myself if you were to go ; and then I should only go to be with you . I have no notion of sacrificing my own ease and happiness to the Opinion of the world in these matters . They laugh , and tell me , while I am mopeing at ...
... answer for myself if you were to go ; and then I should only go to be with you . I have no notion of sacrificing my own ease and happiness to the Opinion of the world in these matters . They laugh , and tell me , while I am mopeing at ...
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... answered they to the Chinese , stupified at their hardiness . . . . Our papers have resounded with the quarrels of the English and Spaniards for the commerce of Nootka Sound . The Americans make no quarrels ; but they have already made ...
... answered they to the Chinese , stupified at their hardiness . . . . Our papers have resounded with the quarrels of the English and Spaniards for the commerce of Nootka Sound . The Americans make no quarrels ; but they have already made ...
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... answer is given to this reasoning ; amongst us , say they , landed property is so easily acquired , that every workman who can use his hands , may be looked upon as likely soon to become a man of property . But can America remain long ...
... answer is given to this reasoning ; amongst us , say they , landed property is so easily acquired , that every workman who can use his hands , may be looked upon as likely soon to become a man of property . But can America remain long ...
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... answer their own selfish purposes . To plunder or filch the rights of men are crimes equally immoral and nefarious , though committed in different manners . Neither of them is confined to the rich or the poor ; they are too com- mon ...
... answer their own selfish purposes . To plunder or filch the rights of men are crimes equally immoral and nefarious , though committed in different manners . Neither of them is confined to the rich or the poor ; they are too com- mon ...
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... answer to your first inquiry . If the poor man who comes to purchase land has a cow and a yoke of cattle to bring with him , he is of the most fortunate class , but as he will probably have no money to hire a labourer , he must do all ...
... answer to your first inquiry . If the poor man who comes to purchase land has a cow and a yoke of cattle to bring with him , he is of the most fortunate class , but as he will probably have no money to hire a labourer , he must do all ...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ... Albert Bushnell Hart,John Gould Curtis Vista completa - 1901 |
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Página 345 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 17 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 347 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith ; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Página 548 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Página 421 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Página 17 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 317 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 446 - Although, among the enumerated powers of government, we do not find the word "bank" or "incorporation," we find the great powers to lay and collect taxes; to borrow money; to regulate commerce; to declare and conduct a war; and to raise and support armies and navies.
Página 536 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Página 410 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.