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... soon shall wing her way . We shall descry another hemisphere . At our antipodes are cities , states , And throngèd empires ne'er divined of yore . The following extract shows how ecclesiastical authorit discouraged scientific ...
... soon shall wing her way . We shall descry another hemisphere . At our antipodes are cities , states , And throngèd empires ne'er divined of yore . The following extract shows how ecclesiastical authorit discouraged scientific ...
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... soon as they saw those approach they fled away in such wise that even a father would not wait for his son . And this was not because any hurt had ever been done to any of them : — on the con- trary , at every headland where I have ...
... soon as they saw those approach they fled away in such wise that even a father would not wait for his son . And this was not because any hurt had ever been done to any of them : — on the con- trary , at every headland where I have ...
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... the bancke , and crossing over , fell down with the streame , and landed right over against the Camp . ... As soon as those that passed first were on land on the other side , the barges returned to the place where The New World 15.
... the bancke , and crossing over , fell down with the streame , and landed right over against the Camp . ... As soon as those that passed first were on land on the other side , the barges returned to the place where The New World 15.
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... soon died , then a boy came out from under the bed where he had hid himself , and told them 1 Charles II , ignoring the Commonwealth and Protectorate , the years of his exile , dated his reign from his father's execution in 1649 ...
... soon died , then a boy came out from under the bed where he had hid himself , and told them 1 Charles II , ignoring the Commonwealth and Protectorate , the years of his exile , dated his reign from his father's execution in 1649 ...
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... soon after without having seen his majestie ; which shuts up this tragedy . THE NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENTS William Bradford was governor of Plymouth Colony almost continuously from 1621 to his death in 1657. His history " Of Plimoth ...
... soon after without having seen his majestie ; which shuts up this tragedy . THE NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENTS William Bradford was governor of Plymouth Colony almost continuously from 1621 to his death in 1657. His history " Of Plimoth ...
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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.