Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... nature and the desire to know her secrets sprang up again with passionate force . Hence , when a new commer- cial route to India was needed , men were willing to take great ment risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , 13.
... nature and the desire to know her secrets sprang up again with passionate force . Hence , when a new commer- cial route to India was needed , men were willing to take great ment risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , 13.
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... ment of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade chains , which sink away again in a long western slope , abundantly watered in winter by moist winds from the Pacific , which clothe it with thick forests of valuable trees . These chains are ...
... ment of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade chains , which sink away again in a long western slope , abundantly watered in winter by moist winds from the Pacific , which clothe it with thick forests of valuable trees . These chains are ...
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... ment of 1586 disappeared ; in 1587 he sent out a col- ony commanded by John White , with 150 people , whom gave birth to Vir- SIR WALTER RALEIGH , ABOUT 1590 . Type of the English gentleman of his time . including seventeen women , one ...
... ment of 1586 disappeared ; in 1587 he sent out a col- ony commanded by John White , with 150 people , whom gave birth to Vir- SIR WALTER RALEIGH , ABOUT 1590 . Type of the English gentleman of his time . including seventeen women , one ...
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... ment of of Chief - Justice Popham ( May , 1607 ) which settled on Virginia ( 1607-1681 ) the Kennebec in Maine ; but one severe winter broke it up , and the company never sent another . The London Com- pany , in which Bartholomew ...
... ment of of Chief - Justice Popham ( May , 1607 ) which settled on Virginia ( 1607-1681 ) the Kennebec in Maine ; but one severe winter broke it up , and the company never sent another . The London Com- pany , in which Bartholomew ...
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... ment of dred left the harbor of Plymouth ( September 6 , 1620 ) on Plymouth ( 1620-1640 ) the ship Mayflower , bound for the Hudson River country . After three months of stormy voyage they found themselves , perhaps by the bad faith of ...
... ment of dred left the harbor of Plymouth ( September 6 , 1620 ) on Plymouth ( 1620-1640 ) the ship Mayflower , bound for the Hudson River country . After three months of stormy voyage they found themselves , perhaps by the bad faith of ...
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Page xxi - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 436 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page xxviii - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 226 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page xxviii - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page xvi - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 206 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 182 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page xviii - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 212 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.