Littell's Living Age, Band 70Living Age Company Incorporated, 1861 |
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... less extraordinary human inhabi- tants , its untamed solitudes , invest it with an interest to which no other portion of the globe at present affords a parallel . Unfortu- nately the qualifications which make a good traveller do not ...
... less extraordinary human inhabi- tants , its untamed solitudes , invest it with an interest to which no other portion of the globe at present affords a parallel . Unfortu- nately the qualifications which make a good traveller do not ...
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... less plausibility , that the states which peaceably acceded to it , might at pleasure peaceably secede from it . It is none the less true that such a proceeding would have stamped the members of the Con- vention - Washington , Madison ...
... less plausibility , that the states which peaceably acceded to it , might at pleasure peaceably secede from it . It is none the less true that such a proceeding would have stamped the members of the Con- vention - Washington , Madison ...
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... less true that the nullification by a state Legislature of a Federal law was a greater injury to the whole nation than a foolish tariff , long since repealed , had in- flicted . It was a stab to the Union in its vital part . The blow ...
... less true that the nullification by a state Legislature of a Federal law was a greater injury to the whole nation than a foolish tariff , long since repealed , had in- flicted . It was a stab to the Union in its vital part . The blow ...
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... less of a theorist . He knew very well what he meant and what he wanted : but he had no compact system to propose , grounded on any new theory of the human faculties . The foremost man in the educa- tional revolution of modern times ...
... less of a theorist . He knew very well what he meant and what he wanted : but he had no compact system to propose , grounded on any new theory of the human faculties . The foremost man in the educa- tional revolution of modern times ...
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... less strongly than her son- result . Memoirs , however scandalous , are in - law ; we are not aware that she ever pub- never historically or biographically worth- lished any thing in her lifetime with her less . " Mushrooms ...
... less strongly than her son- result . Memoirs , however scandalous , are in - law ; we are not aware that she ever pub- never historically or biographically worth- lished any thing in her lifetime with her less . " Mushrooms ...
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Seite 19 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Seite 344 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Seite 18 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 272 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Seite 272 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 293 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Seite 30 - DEAD ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the sea. Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast And are wanting a great song for Italy free, Let none look at me!
Seite 14 - the Constitution, and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 278 - The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, and to these every citizen of every State owes obedience, whether in his individual or official capacity.
Seite 520 - ... with rebellion. Thus sugar-coated, they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government...