The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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... half com- pleted , little England entered upon a daring colonization rivalry with the overshadowing might of Spain . and English Out of that rivalry , English America was born . Reckless and picturesque freebooters , like Drake and ...
... half com- pleted , little England entered upon a daring colonization rivalry with the overshadowing might of Spain . and English Out of that rivalry , English America was born . Reckless and picturesque freebooters , like Drake and ...
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... half brother , Sir Walter Raleigh , the most gallant figure of that Raleigh's attempts daring age . In 1584 Raleigh received a charter copied from Gilbert's , and in the next three years he sent three expeditions to Roanoke Island on ...
... half brother , Sir Walter Raleigh , the most gallant figure of that Raleigh's attempts daring age . In 1584 Raleigh received a charter copied from Gilbert's , and in the next three years he sent three expeditions to Roanoke Island on ...
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... half its members the first season . From one peril the colony was saved by its very misery . Spain watched jealously this intrusion into a region which she claimed as her own , and the government con- The Spanish templated an attack ...
... half its members the first season . From one peril the colony was saved by its very misery . Spain watched jealously this intrusion into a region which she claimed as her own , and the government con- The Spanish templated an attack ...
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... half - mad fanatics . It was a little hard , as Lowell says , to know what to do with a woman who per- sisted in interrupting your honored minister in his sermon , calling him Priest of Baal , and breaking empty bottles over his head ...
... half - mad fanatics . It was a little hard , as Lowell says , to know what to do with a woman who per- sisted in interrupting your honored minister in his sermon , calling him Priest of Baal , and breaking empty bottles over his head ...
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... half . Massachusetts was getting ready to rebel ; but under or- dinary conditions a rising would have been put And its down bloodily . Thanks to the " Glorious Revolu- overthrow tion " of 1688 in Old England , the rising when it came ...
... half . Massachusetts was getting ready to rebel ; but under or- dinary conditions a rising would have been put And its down bloodily . Thanks to the " Glorious Revolu- overthrow tion " of 1688 in Old England , the rising when it came ...
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Page 268 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions which, by this confederation, are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 716 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Page 355 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 273 - 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...