The Adventures of Uncle Sam: In Search After His Lost Honor

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Page 123 - His Britannic majesty and the United States of America, desirous of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the two countries, and of restoring, upon principles of perfect reciprocity, peace, friendship, and good understanding between them, have, for that purpose, appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say: his Britannic majesty, on his part, has appointed the right...
Page 41 - United States have had to resist, with the firmness belonging to their character, the continued violation of their rights. The committee do not hesitate to declare, that France has greatly injured the United States, and that satisfactory reparation has not yet been made for many of those injuries. But, that is a concern which the United States will look to and settle for themselves.
Page 44 - that you shall so use your own property as not to injure that of your Neighbor.
Page 91 - ... them together so as to make one common fund. They could only pour them into one common treasury when they were assembled together in one place. They were directed therefore to make a weekly collection, on that day on which they were accustomed to meet as a Church. The day specified is the first day of the week.
Page 12 - And it fell out in the Stewardship of John, that he made a decree saying thou shalt not speak evil of the rulers of thy people ; thou shalt not lie. And the thing displeased Thomas and he said the decree is not good, So he destroyed the decree and said thou maycst lie ; but thou shalt not speak the truth against the rulers of thy people.

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