The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Redfield, 1853 |
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... , like a nation recently emancipated , but they always were free . Their political independence or nationality does indeed date from 1776 ; but their political liberty began with the plantation of the colonies 14 ORATIONS AND DISCOURSES .
... , like a nation recently emancipated , but they always were free . Their political independence or nationality does indeed date from 1776 ; but their political liberty began with the plantation of the colonies 14 ORATIONS AND DISCOURSES .
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... one altar and one sacrifice for all her sons , and that ambition and avarice must be slain on that altar , for it is consecrated to HUMANITY . LAFAYETTE . THE Declaration of Independence , at a crisis 24 ORATIONS AND DISCOURSES .
... one altar and one sacrifice for all her sons , and that ambition and avarice must be slain on that altar , for it is consecrated to HUMANITY . LAFAYETTE . THE Declaration of Independence , at a crisis 24 ORATIONS AND DISCOURSES .
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... Independence changed all this . It offered to the people indemnity against the punishment threatened by the crown , while it guarantied to them for ever , not only the rights for which they were then in arms , but a new and ample ...
... Independence changed all this . It offered to the people indemnity against the punishment threatened by the crown , while it guarantied to them for ever , not only the rights for which they were then in arms , but a new and ample ...
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... independence . If the career of the hero had ended there what deficiency would there have been for his eulogist to lament , what trait of love , valor , friendship , constancy , or magnanimity , left undisclosed ? The struggle for ...
... independence . If the career of the hero had ended there what deficiency would there have been for his eulogist to lament , what trait of love , valor , friendship , constancy , or magnanimity , left undisclosed ? The struggle for ...
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... independence . Hence resulted a division which , perpetuated until now , has involved both in a common ruin . The distinction between the natives and the invaders was graven broad and deep by these conflicting titles , and by perpetual ...
... independence . Hence resulted a division which , perpetuated until now , has involved both in a common ruin . The distinction between the natives and the invaders was graven broad and deep by these conflicting titles , and by perpetual ...
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Page 626 - The boundary line established by this article shall be religiously respected by each of the two republics, and no change shall ever be made therein, except by the express and free consent of both nations, lawfully given by the general government of each, in conformity with its own constitution.
Page 198 - Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Page 167 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 94 - While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority?
Page 626 - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
Page 14 - Sir, if any other come that hath better iron than you he will be master of all this gold.
Page 226 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Page 141 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man.
Page 53 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 94 - ... our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority ? In the course of the year now drawing to its close, we have beheld under the auspices and at the expense of one State of this Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and holding up the torch of human improvement to eyes that seek the light...