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... representing sounds , not letters . Sequoyah , or George Guess , which was his English name , has been called " the modern Cadmus , " but he was greater than Cadmus , who only brought the Phenician alphabet into Greece , while this half ...
... representing sounds , not letters . Sequoyah , or George Guess , which was his English name , has been called " the modern Cadmus , " but he was greater than Cadmus , who only brought the Phenician alphabet into Greece , while this half ...
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John Julius Dargan . astonished and insisted upon going with him , but he represented to them the danger of so doing , not only to themselves , but to their country and their families , and prevailed upon them to return to the camp ...
John Julius Dargan . astonished and insisted upon going with him , but he represented to them the danger of so doing , not only to themselves , but to their country and their families , and prevailed upon them to return to the camp ...
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... representing no new ideas or ideals , and his argument was commonplace , tending to show that the American people had made no progress over earlier nations in the form of their government . The true expounder of the new Federal system ...
... representing no new ideas or ideals , and his argument was commonplace , tending to show that the American people had made no progress over earlier nations in the form of their government . The true expounder of the new Federal system ...
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... represented , and many of them , though less distinguished , were of equal ability with those named . Discussions were carried on in every court - house village and at every cross - roads , and around almost every fireside . The State ...
... represented , and many of them , though less distinguished , were of equal ability with those named . Discussions were carried on in every court - house village and at every cross - roads , and around almost every fireside . The State ...
Page 111
... represented , they should feel the more bound to mention it and frankly admit the discrèdit . It is certainly not our purpose , in introducing it , to make a defense of it , for , viewed in 111 XX The Brooks-Sumner Episode.
... represented , they should feel the more bound to mention it and frankly admit the discrèdit . It is certainly not our purpose , in introducing it , to make a defense of it , for , viewed in 111 XX The Brooks-Sumner Episode.
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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.