Readings in American HistoryGinn, 1915 - 594 pages |
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... wrote the following prophetic lines in his play " Medea " : In late years the time will come when Ocean will loose the bands of nature , and the earth will stretch out huge , and the 3 sea will disclose new worlds , nor will Thule [ PP ...
... wrote the following prophetic lines in his play " Medea " : In late years the time will come when Ocean will loose the bands of nature , and the earth will stretch out huge , and the 3 sea will disclose new worlds , nor will Thule [ PP ...
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... wrote the following striking prophecy of a western voyage : his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave , a smooth and level plain . And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits1 he had vainly set The ...
... wrote the following striking prophecy of a western voyage : his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave , a smooth and level plain . And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits1 he had vainly set The ...
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... wrote me , where they say they will fulfil their promises to me and will place you in possession of everything ; and that this copy should be given to them with another writing telling of my sickness and that it is now impossible for me ...
... wrote me , where they say they will fulfil their promises to me and will place you in possession of everything ; and that this copy should be given to them with another writing telling of my sickness and that it is now impossible for me ...
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... wrote in the Dedicatory Epistle to his " Divers Voyages , " published in 1582 : " I marvaile [ marvel ] not a little , that since the first 1584 [ 22 ] discoverie of America , which is nowe full fourscore and 20 The Establishment of the ...
... wrote in the Dedicatory Epistle to his " Divers Voyages , " published in 1582 : " I marvaile [ marvel ] not a little , that since the first 1584 [ 22 ] discoverie of America , which is nowe full fourscore and 20 The Establishment of the ...
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... wrote his " Discourse Concerning Western Planting " ( Coloniza- tion ) , from which the following extracts are taken : Nowe , to leave the Spaniardes and Frenche and to come to ourselves seeing it hath pleased Almightie God to reveale ...
... wrote his " Discourse Concerning Western Planting " ( Coloniza- tion ) , from which the following extracts are taken : Nowe , to leave the Spaniardes and Frenche and to come to ourselves seeing it hath pleased Almightie God to reveale ...
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Page 404 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 272 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 173 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 232 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Page 380 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored Land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present...
Page 379 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North...
Page 531 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 355 - Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 379 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.