Lester's History of the United States: Illustrated in Its Five Great Periods : Colonization, Consolidation, Development, Achievement, Advancement, Volume 1P.F. Collier, 1883 |
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... force ; to estab- lish slavery on the soil as a permanent institution , beginning by an importation of five hundred negroes ; while he was to introduce every species of domestic animals , make the sugar - cane the staple of the country ...
... force ; to estab- lish slavery on the soil as a permanent institution , beginning by an importation of five hundred negroes ; while he was to introduce every species of domestic animals , make the sugar - cane the staple of the country ...
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... force of his genius prevailed . He wished to give resurrection to the old Plymouth charter , and success to a Plymouth colony ; and so far was he successful in moving the minds of influential classes , that rivalries soon sprang up ...
... force of his genius prevailed . He wished to give resurrection to the old Plymouth charter , and success to a Plymouth colony ; and so far was he successful in moving the minds of influential classes , that rivalries soon sprang up ...
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... force of character . The spirit of thrift and economy ; her myriad - sided ingenu- ity , invention , discovery , and contrivance ; her keen perception of individual rights ; her persistence in the establishment of institutions for ...
... force of character . The spirit of thrift and economy ; her myriad - sided ingenu- ity , invention , discovery , and contrivance ; her keen perception of individual rights ; her persistence in the establishment of institutions for ...
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... force - how vaster the conceptions of genius than the edicts of arbitrary power - how men in all ages instinctively bow to the majesty of true greatness . Let my young readers recall the fine examples we have of all this in the records ...
... force - how vaster the conceptions of genius than the edicts of arbitrary power - how men in all ages instinctively bow to the majesty of true greatness . Let my young readers recall the fine examples we have of all this in the records ...
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... force to engage the whole , and every interest and conscience to preserve the common liberty and peace . ' The magistrates at first did not risk his forcible removal from the church that loved him ; but they withheld from them the ...
... force to engage the whole , and every interest and conscience to preserve the common liberty and peace . ' The magistrates at first did not risk his forcible removal from the church that loved him ; but they withheld from them the ...
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Page 424 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house ; they labor in vain that build it.
Page 278 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Page 64 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken for the glory of GOD, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of GOD and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 287 - ... Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.
Page 271 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 445 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Page 421 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 192 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them...
Page 118 - Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.