Address[es]W. White., 1862 |
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... officers having such documents in charge . Colonial Records and Provincial Laws . The twelfth volume of Records of the Colony of New Plymouth has been issued during the present year , forming the tenth bound volume of the series . + ...
... officers having such documents in charge . Colonial Records and Provincial Laws . The twelfth volume of Records of the Colony of New Plymouth has been issued during the present year , forming the tenth bound volume of the series . + ...
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... Officers - their Commissions and Fees . I desire to renew the recommendation of a previous Executive , that the official term of Justices of the . Peace be shortened , and that a payment of five dollars be required for each issue of a ...
... Officers - their Commissions and Fees . I desire to renew the recommendation of a previous Executive , that the official term of Justices of the . Peace be shortened , and that a payment of five dollars be required for each issue of a ...
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... officers , having been organized in December , 1861 , by an Order of the War Department . A General Super- intendent of the Recruiting Service was designated by the Secretary of War , and stationed at Boston , under whose direction ...
... officers , having been organized in December , 1861 , by an Order of the War Department . A General Super- intendent of the Recruiting Service was designated by the Secretary of War , and stationed at Boston , under whose direction ...
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... officers under whom they have acted , have been received , which afford evidence , besides that derived from other sources , of the brilliant heroism and patient endurance of these sons and brothers of our people . These documents are ...
... officers under whom they have acted , have been received , which afford evidence , besides that derived from other sources , of the brilliant heroism and patient endurance of these sons and brothers of our people . These documents are ...
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... officer to be specially detailed for that service . No officer then on duty could be spared for the employ- ment . To this end ... officers surrounding me , military and civil , as opportunity was afforded them , I owe to the people of ...
... officer to be specially detailed for that service . No officer then on duty could be spared for the employ- ment . To this end ... officers surrounding me , military and civil , as opportunity was afforded them , I owe to the people of ...
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Page lxxii - It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 45 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 99 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 93 - Congress." If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say, that the war will cease on the part of the government whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it.
Page 56 - ... the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the...
Page 45 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 28 - Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor lettered arrogance deny Thy praise to merit unrefined.
Page 14 - ... some ants carry corn, and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments of virtue, and imperfections of manners.
Page 44 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page 28 - In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured his groan, And lonely want retired to die. No summons mocked by chill delay, No petty gain disdained by pride ; The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied. His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employed.