The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 4Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1886 - Presidents |
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... thing to be looked for in the family biographer , the merest suspicion of such a quality and disposition in the historian would be offensive to the lowest sense of honor . If fiction were necessary to embellish American 6 PREFACE .
... thing to be looked for in the family biographer , the merest suspicion of such a quality and disposition in the historian would be offensive to the lowest sense of honor . If fiction were necessary to embellish American 6 PREFACE .
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... things in this world , for I think my sensations for many months past have intimated to me not to expect a long or ... thing that is difficult in acquiring and useless in pos- sessing after one has exchanged time for eternity . But you ...
... things in this world , for I think my sensations for many months past have intimated to me not to expect a long or ... thing that is difficult in acquiring and useless in pos- sessing after one has exchanged time for eternity . But you ...
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... thing in the association inconsistent with their religious principles . · " I have not seen the following in print , and it seems to be so just a specimen of Indian eloquence and mistaken valor , that I think you will be pleased with it ...
... thing in the association inconsistent with their religious principles . · " I have not seen the following in print , and it seems to be so just a specimen of Indian eloquence and mistaken valor , that I think you will be pleased with it ...
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... thing , but had also laid the whole case before General Washington , and urged the necessity of look- ing after the desperate condition of affairs now arising in the South . The ill fortune of the Americans in that quarter had given the ...
... thing , but had also laid the whole case before General Washington , and urged the necessity of look- ing after the desperate condition of affairs now arising in the South . The ill fortune of the Americans in that quarter had given the ...
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... thing considered , for the honor and advantage of the whole country . But this was not the first in- stance of a display of selfish and sectional interests in the Continental Congress . For his part , Mr. Madison even hoped that the ...
... thing considered , for the honor and advantage of the whole country . But this was not the first in- stance of a display of selfish and sectional interests in the Continental Congress . For his part , Mr. Madison even hoped that the ...
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Page 399 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 399 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 267 - That war be, and the same is hereby, declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories...
Page 21 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 90 - Resd. therefore that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 399 - Their blood has wash'd 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.
Page 30 - General Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body, TO DECLARE THE UNITED COLONIES FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence upon the crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 254 - Instead of this reasonable step towards satisfaction and friendship between the two nations, the orders were, at a moment when least to have been expected, put into more rigorous execution; and it was communicated through the British envoy just arrived, that whilst the revocation of the edicts of France, as officially made known to the British government, was denied to have taken place, it was an indispensable condition of the repeal of the British Orders, that commerce should be restored to a footing...
Page 91 - Magistracy, existing at the time of increase or diminution, and to be ineligible a second time; and that besides a general authority to execute the National Laws, it ought to enjoy the Executive rights vested in Congress by the Confederation.
Page 239 - An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...