History of the United States from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain, in 1815: To which is Added, Questions Adapted to the Use of SchoolsCollins and Hannay, 1827 - 305 Seiten |
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... afterwards lost . The discovery of this extensive region , constituting nearly one half of the habitable globe , was the acci- dental result of the attempts , made in the fifteenth century , to find a passage , by sea , from the ports ...
... afterwards lost . The discovery of this extensive region , constituting nearly one half of the habitable globe , was the acci- dental result of the attempts , made in the fifteenth century , to find a passage , by sea , from the ports ...
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... afterwards , they were taken up by an English vessel and carried to England . This was the first attempt to plant a colony within the limits of the United States ; and it is worthy of remark , that to secure an asylum from religious ...
... afterwards , they were taken up by an English vessel and carried to England . This was the first attempt to plant a colony within the limits of the United States ; and it is worthy of remark , that to secure an asylum from religious ...
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... afterwards with horror , and the period was remem- bered and distinguished by the name of the " STARVING TIME . 25. In six months , the colony , from five hundred persons , was reduced to sixty ; and these were exceedingly feeble and ...
... afterwards with horror , and the period was remem- bered and distinguished by the name of the " STARVING TIME . 25. In six months , the colony , from five hundred persons , was reduced to sixty ; and these were exceedingly feeble and ...
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... afterwards , one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco , then selling at three shillings the pound : and it was ordained , that debts , contracted for wives , should be paid in preference to all others . 34. About the same time , another ...
... afterwards , one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco , then selling at three shillings the pound : and it was ordained , that debts , contracted for wives , should be paid in preference to all others . 34. About the same time , another ...
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... afterwards , governors appointed by Crom- well , continued to preside over the colony . But the predilection for royalty , which the inhabitants had displayed , was remember- ed , and they were less favored than those of New - England ...
... afterwards , governors appointed by Crom- well , continued to preside over the colony . But the predilection for royalty , which the inhabitants had displayed , was remember- ed , and they were less favored than those of New - England ...
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Seite 161 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 125 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Seite 270 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 207 - Since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness — between duty and advantage — between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
Seite 144 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Seite 270 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Seite 143 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Seite 270 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
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Seite 125 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.