The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etcJ.F. Trow, Printer, 1850 |
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... flax , and hemp ; which , with proper cultivation , would furnish us with summer apparel in abundance . The article of cotton , indeed , would do more ; it would contribute to defend us from the inclemency of winter . We have sheep ...
... flax , and hemp ; which , with proper cultivation , would furnish us with summer apparel in abundance . The article of cotton , indeed , would do more ; it would contribute to defend us from the inclemency of winter . We have sheep ...
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... flax - seed from Holland , the Baltic , and the river St. Lawrence . Canada pro- duces no inconsiderable quantity already . " And as to the West Indies , " they produce now many of the necessaries of life . The quantity may be easily ...
... flax - seed from Holland , the Baltic , and the river St. Lawrence . Canada pro- duces no inconsiderable quantity already . " And as to the West Indies , " they produce now many of the necessaries of life . The quantity may be easily ...
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... flax ; and she has been able to consume that , with all she could derive from other quarters . As to Canada , I am well informed , it could at present afford but a very inconsiderable quantity . It has had little encourage- ment ...
... flax ; and she has been able to consume that , with all she could derive from other quarters . As to Canada , I am well informed , it could at present afford but a very inconsiderable quantity . It has had little encourage- ment ...
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... flax , and hemp . It will be your interest to pay the greatest care and attention to your sheep . Increase and improve the breed as much as possible . Kill them sparingly , and such only as will not be of use toward the increase and ...
... flax , and hemp . It will be your interest to pay the greatest care and attention to your sheep . Increase and improve the breed as much as possible . Kill them sparingly , and such only as will not be of use toward the increase and ...
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... flax and hemp . Those articles will be wanted for manufactures ; and they will yield you a greater profit than any thing else . In the interim , take good care of your sheep . I heartily concur with the farmer in condemning all illicit ...
... flax and hemp . Those articles will be wanted for manufactures ; and they will yield you a greater profit than any thing else . In the interim , take good care of your sheep . I heartily concur with the farmer in condemning all illicit ...
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Page 339 - May next, to take into consideration "the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 254 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, In proportion to the number of white Inhabitants in such state...
Page 67 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 72 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 358 - ... 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.
Page 43 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 254 - States in Congress assembled: but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller...
Page 216 - To appoint one of their number to preside; provided, that no person be allowed to serve in the office of President more than one year in any term of three years : To ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for...
Page 290 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war, and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Page 471 - Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine states shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled...