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... naturally an exaltation of mind at that time in respect to English power , as India and America had just been won and British supremacy on the ocean was unchallenged . So it was to be expected that a monarch constituted mentally and ...
... naturally an exaltation of mind at that time in respect to English power , as India and America had just been won and British supremacy on the ocean was unchallenged . So it was to be expected that a monarch constituted mentally and ...
Page 48
... naturally on the side of uninterrupted trade with England , because they were prospering greatly under that trade ; and the lawyers , while advocates of resistance to oppression , wished , like the English advocates , to resist like ...
... naturally on the side of uninterrupted trade with England , because they were prospering greatly under that trade ; and the lawyers , while advocates of resistance to oppression , wished , like the English advocates , to resist like ...
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... naturally have been expected that most of the fighting would take place in those two States , but far different was the fact . In March , 1776 , the British left Massachusetts to return no more , and in the fol- lowing June , made the ...
... naturally have been expected that most of the fighting would take place in those two States , but far different was the fact . In March , 1776 , the British left Massachusetts to return no more , and in the fol- lowing June , made the ...
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... naturally feel proud of the enterprise in this new order of communication and transportation ; but when this road was extended to Camden , affording to so much of the country that the canal was designed to help a better means of ...
... naturally feel proud of the enterprise in this new order of communication and transportation ; but when this road was extended to Camden , affording to so much of the country that the canal was designed to help a better means of ...
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... natural one and one that leaned to virtue's side , and in the interest of the cause they then understood to be of greatest benefit to their country . CHAPTER XIX MEXICAN WAR Although John C. Calhoun had probably SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH ...
... natural one and one that leaned to virtue's side , and in the interest of the cause they then understood to be of greatest benefit to their country . CHAPTER XIX MEXICAN WAR Although John C. Calhoun had probably SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH ...
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Page 23 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 238 - State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate government, and do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent States may of right do...
Page 236 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 237 - States, and the people of the co-States, that we are determined to maintain this our ordinance and declaration, at every hazard, do further declare that we will not submit to the application of force, on the part of the federal government, to reduce this State to obedience...
Page 255 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Page 2 - The whole shore is covered with fine sand, about fifteen feet thick, rising in the form of little hills about fifty paces broad. Ascending farther, we found several arms of the sea which make in through inlets, washing the shores on both sides as the coast runs.
Page 235 - Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...
Page 255 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 235 - States, and more especially an act entitled "an act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports...
Page 113 - But the Senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure — with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the Constitution or in stating the law, whether in the details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship. He cannot ope his mouth, but out there flies a blunder.