Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing...Harper, 1905 |
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... persons of any people we saw , of the greatest activity and strength , who best understood us and intelligently answered our inquiries . We called them the Cow nation , because most of the cattle killed are slaughtered in their ...
... persons of any people we saw , of the greatest activity and strength , who best understood us and intelligently answered our inquiries . We called them the Cow nation , because most of the cattle killed are slaughtered in their ...
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... persons who had come by sea on discoveries . How . ever , as we had now such exact informa- tion , we made greater speed , and , as we advanced on our way , the news of the Christians continually grew . We told the natives that we were ...
... persons who had come by sea on discoveries . How . ever , as we had now such exact informa- tion , we made greater speed , and , as we advanced on our way , the news of the Christians continually grew . We told the natives that we were ...
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... persons were mounted , by the stakes to which the horses had been tied . From this spot , called the river Petu- tan , to the river to which Diego de Guz- man came , we heard of Christians , may be as many as 80 leagues ; thence to the ...
... persons were mounted , by the stakes to which the horses had been tied . From this spot , called the river Petu- tan , to the river to which Diego de Guz- man came , we heard of Christians , may be as many as 80 leagues ; thence to the ...
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... persons Christians . of mean condition and small force . The Indians cared little or nothing for what was told them ; and conversing among themselves said the Christians lied : that we had come whence the sun rises , and they whence it ...
... persons Christians . of mean condition and small force . The Indians cared little or nothing for what was told them ; and conversing among themselves said the Christians lied : that we had come whence the sun rises , and they whence it ...
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... persons . The military governor called a convention to meet at Monterey , Sept. 1 , 1849 , to frame a State constitution . One was formed by which slavery was to be excluded from the 34 Although parts of the present terri- tory of the ...
... persons . The military governor called a convention to meet at Monterey , Sept. 1 , 1849 , to frame a State constitution . One was formed by which slavery was to be excluded from the 34 Although parts of the present terri- tory of the ...
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Page 337 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 311 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 311 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 311 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 307 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Page 311 - ... or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state, on any question, shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 426 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 400 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 312 - That we, the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents. In the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained.
Page 337 - State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or subjects.