Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1906 - 522 pages |
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... caused their death by only willing it , when in truth it gave us so much pain that it could not be greater ; for , beyond their loss , we feared they might all die , or abandon us of fright , and that other people thence- forward would ...
... caused their death by only willing it , when in truth it gave us so much pain that it could not be greater ; for , beyond their loss , we feared they might all die , or abandon us of fright , and that other people thence- forward would ...
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... lances . Our countrymen became jealous at this , and caused their interpreter to tell the Indians that we were of them , and for a fleeing and concealing themselves in the thickets , unwilling to 7 CABEZA DE VACA , ALVAR NUÑEZ.
... lances . Our countrymen became jealous at this , and caused their interpreter to tell the Indians that we were of them , and for a fleeing and concealing themselves in the thickets , unwilling to 7 CABEZA DE VACA , ALVAR NUÑEZ.
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... cause , he was much disliked by the Tories . Appointed chaplain of a New Jersey brigade , he was for a time in the Mohawk Valley . In 1780 his church and residence were burned by a party of British and Tories ; and the same year a ...
... cause , he was much disliked by the Tories . Appointed chaplain of a New Jersey brigade , he was for a time in the Mohawk Valley . In 1780 his church and residence were burned by a party of British and Tories ; and the same year a ...
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... caused copies of the work to be pub- published in book form , as above stated . licly burned on the college green . Calef In these letters he exposed Mather's died about 1723 . credulity , and greatly irritated that really Calendar ...
... caused copies of the work to be pub- published in book form , as above stated . licly burned on the college green . Calef In these letters he exposed Mather's died about 1723 . credulity , and greatly irritated that really Calendar ...
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... causing great confusion and dangerous ing the one , they acted without concert misconceptions . But as conclusive as these reasons are to prove that the government of the United or agreement ; but , in the other , with con- cert in ...
... causing great confusion and dangerous ing the one , they acted without concert misconceptions . But as conclusive as these reasons are to prove that the government of the United or agreement ; but , in the other , with con- cert in ...
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Page 340 - States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 334 - Legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes...
Page 309 - State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property, imported into any State, to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant...
Page 313 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 339 - ... 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 334 - Georgia three. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Page 309 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 338 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 313 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 309 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...