American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1901 |
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... Island , 1806 109. Jacob Allbright : 110. Washington Irving : A Satire on Jefferson , 1809 . • • CHAPTER XVII - TERRITORIAL EXPANSION III . President Thomas Jefferson : Importance of New Orleans , ` 1802 112. Lucien Bonaparte : 113 ...
... Island , 1806 109. Jacob Allbright : 110. Washington Irving : A Satire on Jefferson , 1809 . • • CHAPTER XVII - TERRITORIAL EXPANSION III . President Thomas Jefferson : Importance of New Orleans , ` 1802 112. Lucien Bonaparte : 113 ...
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... island has always two knives in his pocket , one much larger than the other ; and though they hold every thing that is called fashion in the utmost contempt , yet they are as difficult to please , and as extravagant in the choice and ...
... island has always two knives in his pocket , one much larger than the other ; and though they hold every thing that is called fashion in the utmost contempt , yet they are as difficult to please , and as extravagant in the choice and ...
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... island of Catharine in the Brazils , " says one , " is a very droll island , it is inhabited by none but men ; women are not permitted to come in sight of it ; not a woman is there on the whole island . Who among us is not glad it is ...
... island of Catharine in the Brazils , " says one , " is a very droll island , it is inhabited by none but men ; women are not permitted to come in sight of it ; not a woman is there on the whole island . Who among us is not glad it is ...
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... island inhabited as I have described , is not the place where gay travellers should resort , in order to enjoy that variety of pleasures the more splendid towns of this continent afford . Not that they are wholly deprived of what we ...
... island inhabited as I have described , is not the place where gay travellers should resort , in order to enjoy that variety of pleasures the more splendid towns of this continent afford . Not that they are wholly deprived of what we ...
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... islands , and even the markets of Europe , with the goods of the East ; and to obtain every where the preference , by the low price at which they might be afforded . And this project is not without foundation . The nature of things ...
... islands , and even the markets of Europe , with the goods of the East ; and to obtain every where the preference , by the low price at which they might be afforded . And this project is not without foundation . The nature of things ...
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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.