History of the United StatesHenry Holt, 1919 - 597 pages |
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... took posses- sion of the sea and all the lands upon its borders in the name of the King of Spain . Later he made the first suggestion of an Atlantic- Pacific canal , when he proposed to his sovereign that a canal be dug across the ...
... took posses- sion of the sea and all the lands upon its borders in the name of the King of Spain . Later he made the first suggestion of an Atlantic- Pacific canal , when he proposed to his sovereign that a canal be dug across the ...
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... took them far enough down the Mississippi to enable them to determine that it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico . Up to this time , though Europeans had been settled on the Atlantic coast for a half century and more , and though ...
... took them far enough down the Mississippi to enable them to determine that it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico . Up to this time , though Europeans had been settled on the Atlantic coast for a half century and more , and though ...
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... took with him on his journey in 1634 , when he discovered Lake Michigan , a richly embroidered oriental gown , that he might enter the court of the ruler of the Chinese in proper garb . Both French and English civilization had been ...
... took with him on his journey in 1634 , when he discovered Lake Michigan , a richly embroidered oriental gown , that he might enter the court of the ruler of the Chinese in proper garb . Both French and English civilization had been ...
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... took a share of the booty . Another of Drake's exploits took place off the coast of Spain itself , where he sailed into the harbor of Cadiz , defeated the war ships on guard , burned more than a hundred vessels , filled his own ships ...
... took a share of the booty . Another of Drake's exploits took place off the coast of Spain itself , where he sailed into the harbor of Cadiz , defeated the war ships on guard , burned more than a hundred vessels , filled his own ships ...
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... took its begin- ning . Few at the time saw anything questionable in the system . By 1660 Virginia had two thousand negro slaves and four times that number of " indentured servants , " the latter being poor whites who paid their ...
... took its begin- ning . Few at the time saw anything questionable in the system . By 1660 Virginia had two thousand negro slaves and four times that number of " indentured servants , " the latter being poor whites who paid their ...
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Page 380 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN ! O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red. Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain ! my Captain...
Page 383 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 380 - For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 370 - Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Page 556 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 560 - 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 250 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 572 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be Inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 173 - 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...
Page 271 - While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that, on my vision, never may be opened what lies behind.