Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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American Historical Association. Mrs. Walworth called the attention of the Association to the fact that the year 1894 would be the decennial of our organi- zation at Saratoga Springs , September 10 , 1884. On behalf of the citizens of ...
American Historical Association. Mrs. Walworth called the attention of the Association to the fact that the year 1894 would be the decennial of our organi- zation at Saratoga Springs , September 10 , 1884. On behalf of the citizens of ...
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... fact that we should somehow have our independence , but we owe it to our commissioners at Paris , especially to Jay , rather than to the generals in command of our armies , that Great Britain was constrained to treat with us as an equal ...
... fact that we should somehow have our independence , but we owe it to our commissioners at Paris , especially to Jay , rather than to the generals in command of our armies , that Great Britain was constrained to treat with us as an equal ...
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... fact , it is in Stanhope's Queen Anne . Hume is reasonably full on the negotiations at Nimeguen , Macaulay on Ryswick , and Capefigue on both . In general the French historians as a class have given more attention to diplomatic history ...
... fact , it is in Stanhope's Queen Anne . Hume is reasonably full on the negotiations at Nimeguen , Macaulay on Ryswick , and Capefigue on both . In general the French historians as a class have given more attention to diplomatic history ...
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... facts within reach and may permit them to be used by the historian when the proper time comes for a full diplomatic history . Several nations have published or have permitted the pub . lication of their treaties . In addition to ...
... facts within reach and may permit them to be used by the historian when the proper time comes for a full diplomatic history . Several nations have published or have permitted the pub . lication of their treaties . In addition to ...
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... facts as broad as the life of the race . In this large and hospitable spirit , worthy of this great concourse of nations , we assemble here to - day and take up our work . III - THE VALUE OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES . By MRS 24 AMERICAN ...
... facts as broad as the life of the race . In this large and hospitable spirit , worthy of this great concourse of nations , we assemble here to - day and take up our work . III - THE VALUE OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES . By MRS 24 AMERICAN ...
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Page 198 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.
Page 299 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Page 253 - That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.
Page 233 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 173 - The constitution and the laws of their predecessors are extinguished then, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.
Page 222 - The people would occupy without grants. They have already so occupied in many places. You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
Page 171 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community...
Page 205 - The United States lies like a huge page in the history of society. Line by line as we read this continental page from West to East we find the record of social evolution. It begins with the Indian and the hunter; it goes on to tell of the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader, the pathfinder of civilization; we read the annals of the pastoral stage in ranch life; the exploitation of the soil by the raising of unrotated crops of corn and wheat in sparsely settled farming communities;...
Page 313 - The governor shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the colony, their lands or commodities, other way than by the authority of the general assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said assembly shall appoynt.
Page 183 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.