American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 3Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis Macmillan Company, 1901 - United States |
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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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Page 496 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 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.
Page 450 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 347 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 17 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 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.
Page 317 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.