Elements of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of SchoolsFrom Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1808 - 223 páginas |
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Página 67
... quantities of gold and filver had been in- troduced into the country , by the French army , and an illicit trade to Spanish America . No fooner was peace proclaimed , than a vaft importation of British goods was begun ; and was greatly ...
... quantities of gold and filver had been in- troduced into the country , by the French army , and an illicit trade to Spanish America . No fooner was peace proclaimed , than a vaft importation of British goods was begun ; and was greatly ...
Página 81
... quantities , for exportation . The other fpecies of grain grow well in any part of the United States , and fince the failure of wheat in the eastern states , rye is much used for bread , either alone , or mixed with maiz , or , in fome ...
... quantities , for exportation . The other fpecies of grain grow well in any part of the United States , and fince the failure of wheat in the eastern states , rye is much used for bread , either alone , or mixed with maiz , or , in fome ...
Página 86
... quantities as to command attention ; except recently in Cabarras county in North Carolina . A copper nine , on the Pafaic , a few miles north of Newark in New - Jerfey , has been wrought to advantage , and an affociation by the name of ...
... quantities as to command attention ; except recently in Cabarras county in North Carolina . A copper nine , on the Pafaic , a few miles north of Newark in New - Jerfey , has been wrought to advantage , and an affociation by the name of ...
Página 87
... quantities of Swedish iron and steel in bars are imported from the Baltic . 184 . Valuable Stones . The United States are furnish- ed with inexhauftible quantities of lime stone . A range of this ftone extends from Connecticut , through ...
... quantities of Swedish iron and steel in bars are imported from the Baltic . 184 . Valuable Stones . The United States are furnish- ed with inexhauftible quantities of lime stone . A range of this ftone extends from Connecticut , through ...
Página 89
... quantities of that fubitance on the earth in their channel . The falt fprings near the Onondago lake , are numerous , and contain fuch a portion of falt in folution , that it is eafily obtained by evaporation ; and fufficient quantities ...
... quantities of that fubitance on the earth in their channel . The falt fprings near the Onondago lake , are numerous , and contain fuch a portion of falt in folution , that it is eafily obtained by evaporation ; and fufficient quantities ...
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Página 221 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Página 213 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
Página 207 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my...
Página 220 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 220 - It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to...
Página 214 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 210 - But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...
Página 208 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página 214 - HOWEVER combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 216 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.