The history of England, by D. Hume, continued by T. Smollett, and to the 23rd year of the reign of queen Victoria by E. Farr and E.H. Nolan. 3 vols. [in 12 pt.]. continued to the 36th year of the reign of queen Victoria, Volume 41876 |
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... March Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole left the cabinet . These gentlemen held the posts of president of the board of trade , and home secretary ; and it excited some curiosity that they found themselves unable to agree to so small an ...
... March Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole left the cabinet . These gentlemen held the posts of president of the board of trade , and home secretary ; and it excited some curiosity that they found themselves unable to agree to so small an ...
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... March , when ministers were defeated on their Church Rates Bill by a majority of eighty - three against , and on the 16th March they were again defeated by a majority of seventy - four votes in favour of Sir John Trelawney's bill for ...
... March , when ministers were defeated on their Church Rates Bill by a majority of eighty - three against , and on the 16th March they were again defeated by a majority of seventy - four votes in favour of Sir John Trelawney's bill for ...
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... March 31 , 1860 28,638,725 12 5 1,964,394 11 a decided success . After passing Dungeness and Beachy Head the visitors sat down to dinner . The weather now clearing , some of the gentlemen went on deck to have a look at Hastings , others ...
... March 31 , 1860 28,638,725 12 5 1,964,394 11 a decided success . After passing Dungeness and Beachy Head the visitors sat down to dinner . The weather now clearing , some of the gentlemen went on deck to have a look at Hastings , others ...
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... March , 1850 , the bridge was opened for public traffic . " So great was the reputation of Robert Stephenson , that , during the railway mania , he was engineer to more than thirty lines of railway . He derived from these occupations a ...
... March , 1850 , the bridge was opened for public traffic . " So great was the reputation of Robert Stephenson , that , during the railway mania , he was engineer to more than thirty lines of railway . He derived from these occupations a ...
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... March , 1858 , in having led a portion of his company , stormed a bastion mounting two guns , and spiked the guns , by which the advanced position held during the night of the 9th of March was rendered secure from the fire of artillery ...
... March , 1858 , in having led a portion of his company , stormed a bastion mounting two guns , and spiked the guns , by which the advanced position held during the night of the 9th of March was rendered secure from the fire of artillery ...
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Page 78 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of Judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law...
Page 77 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 77 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Page 164 - States are and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Page 76 - No person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 77 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend
Page 251 - The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility' of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 76 - I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause — as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 77 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time: but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 76 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up,