History of the United States from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain, in 1815: To which is Added, Questions Adapted to the Use of SchoolsCollins and Hannay, 1827 - 305 páginas |
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... formed for the purpose of sending colonies to America . Upon their application to king James , he , by letters patent , dated in 1606 , divided the country of Virginia , then considered as extending from the southern boundary of North ...
... formed for the purpose of sending colonies to America . Upon their application to king James , he , by letters patent , dated in 1606 , divided the country of Virginia , then considered as extending from the southern boundary of North ...
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... formed , and peace and plenty smiled upon the colony . 21. In 1609 , the London company , having obtained a new charter conferring greater powers and privileges than the former , despatched to Virginia nine ships , carrying five hundred ...
... formed , and peace and plenty smiled upon the colony . 21. In 1609 , the London company , having obtained a new charter conferring greater powers and privileges than the former , despatched to Virginia nine ships , carrying five hundred ...
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... formed a distinct society under the care of their pas- tor , the Rev. John Robinson . By their rigid virtues and exem- plary deportment , they acquired the respect of the magistrates and citizens . 8. After residing several years in ...
... formed a distinct society under the care of their pas- tor , the Rev. John Robinson . By their rigid virtues and exem- plary deportment , they acquired the respect of the magistrates and citizens . 8. After residing several years in ...
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... formed for the purpose of planting a colony in New - England , to which they and their brethren might repair , and , in seclusion and safety , worship God according to the dic- tates of conscience . They obtained from the Plymouth compa ...
... formed for the purpose of planting a colony in New - England , to which they and their brethren might repair , and , in seclusion and safety , worship God according to the dic- tates of conscience . They obtained from the Plymouth compa ...
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... formed , in 1643 , a firm and perpetual league , offensive and defensive . By the articles of this league , each colony was to appoint two commissioners , who were to assemble , by rotation , in the respective colonies , and were ...
... formed , in 1643 , a firm and perpetual league , offensive and defensive . By the articles of this league , each colony was to appoint two commissioners , who were to assemble , by rotation , in the respective colonies , and were ...
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Página 161 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Página 125 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Página 270 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 207 - Since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness — between duty and advantage — between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
Página 144 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Página 270 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Página 143 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 270 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 125 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.