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... command between heaven and earth , by day above and by night under the earth . . . . The sun is very great : as broad she is , from what books say , as the whole compass of the earth ; but she appears to us very small , because she is ...
... command between heaven and earth , by day above and by night under the earth . . . . The sun is very great : as broad she is , from what books say , as the whole compass of the earth ; but she appears to us very small , because she is ...
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... command The Admiral 4. Colum complains his son cember 1,1 [ 7 ] The last years of Columbus ' life were clouded with dis- appointment , poverty , and sickness . He was greedy of both fame and gold . He had written to his sovereigns on ...
... command The Admiral 4. Colum complains his son cember 1,1 [ 7 ] The last years of Columbus ' life were clouded with dis- appointment , poverty , and sickness . He was greedy of both fame and gold . He had written to his sovereigns on ...
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... Command It would be hard to find in the whole mass of colonial literature a piece to surpass in interest the vivid and con- vincing narrative entitled " The Beginning , Progress and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia . " The ac ...
... Command It would be hard to find in the whole mass of colonial literature a piece to surpass in interest the vivid and con- vincing narrative entitled " The Beginning , Progress and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia . " The ac ...
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... command . The Director Generall and Council at length consented there- unto , whereto commissioners were sent to the admiral , who notified him that it was resolved to come to terms in order to prevent the shedding of blood , if a good ...
... command . The Director Generall and Council at length consented there- unto , whereto commissioners were sent to the admiral , who notified him that it was resolved to come to terms in order to prevent the shedding of blood , if a good ...
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... command the Passes thro the said Mountains , whereby they will be not only in condition to secure their own Traffick and Settlements West- ward , but also to invade the British Colonies from Thence .... These inducements to the French ...
... command the Passes thro the said Mountains , whereby they will be not only in condition to secure their own Traffick and Settlements West- ward , but also to invade the British Colonies from Thence .... These inducements to the French ...
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Page 408 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 276 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 384 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 177 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 253 - We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 236 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 253 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments...
Page 384 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 244 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.