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... seemed appropriate that in the series of American Commonwealths the history of Michigan should be sketched as a history of governments ; but this would be incomplete without a summary view of the relations of States to the Union at the ...
... seemed appropriate that in the series of American Commonwealths the history of Michigan should be sketched as a history of governments ; but this would be incomplete without a summary view of the relations of States to the Union at the ...
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... seemed to appreciate the great fact that a vast and fertile continent , whose possi- bilities for humanity were beyond calculation , was now offered for the acceptance of European civil- ization . For more than a century after the dis ...
... seemed to appreciate the great fact that a vast and fertile continent , whose possi- bilities for humanity were beyond calculation , was now offered for the acceptance of European civil- ization . For more than a century after the dis ...
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... seemed to promise great results . Previous grants of monopoly were annulled , and a company of a hundred associates was formed , with Riche- lieu at its head , to which was granted a perma- SCHEMES FOR COLONIZATION . 7 nent monopoly of ...
... seemed to promise great results . Previous grants of monopoly were annulled , and a company of a hundred associates was formed , with Riche- lieu at its head , to which was granted a perma- SCHEMES FOR COLONIZATION . 7 nent monopoly of ...
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... seemed to prompt . On the other hand the Eng- lish authorities , with strange disregard of the de- mands of the situation , not only neglected to take proper steps to wean the Indians from their French attachments , and to convert them ...
... seemed to prompt . On the other hand the Eng- lish authorities , with strange disregard of the de- mands of the situation , not only neglected to take proper steps to wean the Indians from their French attachments , and to convert them ...
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... seemed to him possible in the correction of abuses . But the cor- rection , when the restraining power was to be at a distance , could at best be only temporary and partial ; greed was more powerful than the sense of justice or the ...
... seemed to him possible in the correction of abuses . But the cor- rection , when the restraining power was to be at a distance , could at best be only temporary and partial ; greed was more powerful than the sense of justice or the ...
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