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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... taken to burial . While we were among these people , which was more than fifteen days , we saw no one speak to another , nor did we see an infant smile : the only one that cried they took off to a distance , and with the sharp teeth of ...
... taken to burial . While we were among these people , which was more than fifteen days , we saw no one speak to another , nor did we see an infant smile : the only one that cried they took off to a distance , and with the sharp teeth of ...
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... taken up with tongs of sticks and dropped into the calabash until the water in it boils from the fervor of the stones . Then whatever is to be cooked is put in , and until it is done they continue taking out cooled stones and throwing ...
... taken up with tongs of sticks and dropped into the calabash until the water in it boils from the fervor of the stones . Then whatever is to be cooked is put in , and until it is done they continue taking out cooled stones and throwing ...
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... taken in their aims ; we set about to preserve the liberty of the Indians and thought we had secured it , but the eon- trary appeared ; for the Christians ha In this way they spoke of all matters arranged to go and spring upon those we ...
... taken in their aims ; we set about to preserve the liberty of the Indians and thought we had secured it , but the eon- trary appeared ; for the Christians ha In this way they spoke of all matters arranged to go and spring upon those we ...
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... taken them to their houses , giving of what they had , and the Christians had slept among them overnight . They were surprised at a thing so novel ; but , as the natives said they had been assured of safety , it was or- dered that they ...
... taken them to their houses , giving of what they had , and the Christians had slept among them overnight . They were surprised at a thing so novel ; but , as the natives said they had been assured of safety , it was or- dered that they ...
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... Taken together , the plain meaning is , that the government proposed would be , if adopted , the govern- ment of the States adopting it , in their united character as members of a common Union ; and , as such , would be a federal ...
... Taken together , the plain meaning is , that the government proposed would be , if adopted , the govern- ment of the States adopting it , in their united character as members of a common Union ; and , as such , would be a federal ...
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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.