The United States of North America as They are: Not as They are Generally Described, Being a Cure for RadicalismLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840 - 517 páginas |
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... five or six years that I was there , had no great reason to complain : after this , however , a system of corruption in the States ' governments , as well as in the government of the United States , began to develop itself in such a ...
... five or six years that I was there , had no great reason to complain : after this , however , a system of corruption in the States ' governments , as well as in the government of the United States , began to develop itself in such a ...
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... five hundred years from the Con- quest , was but about five hundred thousand pounds . " age Lastly , he told us that " the insulted German , and the enslaved Spa- niard , the Russ , and the Pole , were beginning to think ; that the in ...
... five hundred years from the Con- quest , was but about five hundred thousand pounds . " age Lastly , he told us that " the insulted German , and the enslaved Spa- niard , the Russ , and the Pole , were beginning to think ; that the in ...
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... five dollars , to be paid , in silver or gold , on demand . You are not unacquainted with the fact , that about the 10th of May , 1837 , these banks all simultaneously stopped payment ; they had all the government money , both of the ...
... five dollars , to be paid , in silver or gold , on demand . You are not unacquainted with the fact , that about the 10th of May , 1837 , these banks all simultaneously stopped payment ; they had all the government money , both of the ...
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... five dollars at a time , the bankers could appeal from the decision of a magistrate , and carry the suit from court to court ; several of such suits having been commenced in May , 1837 , and have not yet , or ever will be determined ...
... five dollars at a time , the bankers could appeal from the decision of a magistrate , and carry the suit from court to court ; several of such suits having been commenced in May , 1837 , and have not yet , or ever will be determined ...
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... five dollars , and he would have taken , as a fee , the exact amount , and sold me to the bankers after all . So , knowing my case to be as just as I thought it was simple , I undertook , in spite of the old adage , ( he who is his own ...
... five dollars , and he would have taken , as a fee , the exact amount , and sold me to the bankers after all . So , knowing my case to be as just as I thought it was simple , I undertook , in spite of the old adage , ( he who is his own ...
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Página 516 - 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...
Página 506 - You have heard that it hath been said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thy enemy. But I say to you: Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you : and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you...
Página 328 - I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce...
Página 339 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the College shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Página 450 - You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons. It is from within, among yourselves — from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power — that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
Página 517 - I cannot describe the wonder and mortification with which the table conversations filled me. Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment.
Página 517 - An apostate I could not be, nor yet a hypocrite; and I found myself, for the most part, the only advocate on the republican side of the question, unless among the guests there chanced to be some member of that party from the legislative Houses.
Página 393 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 189 - ... is unequal; that the amount raised by them is greater than is required by the wants of the Government; and, finally, that the proceeds are to be applied to objects unauthorized by the Constitution. These are the only causes alleged to justify an open opposition to the laws of the country and a threat of seceding from the Union if any attempt should be made to enforce them. The first...
Página 362 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.