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... continued publication of the Printing and binding done under the contract system . Resolution by Mr. Gray that the Committee on Printing consider and report as to the advisability of having the . Private claims . Index to , Forty ...
... continued publication of the Printing and binding done under the contract system . Resolution by Mr. Gray that the Committee on Printing consider and report as to the advisability of having the . Private claims . Index to , Forty ...
Page xxiv
... continued publication of the Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean Squire , Mr. Resolution instructing the Secretary of War to trans- mit to the Senate all letters and reports relative to the Everett Harbor 37 1 31 1 247 5 106 5 84 1 ...
... continued publication of the Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean Squire , Mr. Resolution instructing the Secretary of War to trans- mit to the Senate all letters and reports relative to the Everett Harbor 37 1 31 1 247 5 106 5 84 1 ...
Page 74
... continued , " thousands upon thousands of his- tories ; there have been hundreds upon hundreds of historians ; but for all that , the fields of Christian history are new , as until recently all fields of history were new , because they ...
... continued , " thousands upon thousands of his- tories ; there have been hundreds upon hundreds of historians ; but for all that , the fields of Christian history are new , as until recently all fields of history were new , because they ...
Page 109
... continued to Arch- bishop Adalbert , who died in 1072 . The legatine powers of the see of Hamburg had become so extensive as to make it convenient to erect an archbishopric at Lund , in Sweden , in 1104 , and Greenland was placed under ...
... continued to Arch- bishop Adalbert , who died in 1072 . The legatine powers of the see of Hamburg had become so extensive as to make it convenient to erect an archbishopric at Lund , in Sweden , in 1104 , and Greenland was placed under ...
Page 129
... continued rise of price , and developed an irre- sistible desire to buy in a foreign market . Another cause was the marked decline in the quality of Spanish products , which placed them in unfavorable contrast with the wares of other ...
... continued rise of price , and developed an irre- sistible desire to buy in a foreign market . Another cause was the marked decline in the quality of Spanish products , which placed them in unfavorable contrast with the wares of other ...
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Page 185 - 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.
Page 172 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Page 301 - 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.
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Page 200 - 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 137 - Gladstone, a not too friendly critic, has said that " as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
Page 235 - 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 227 - What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely.
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Page 382 - Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.