Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1807-1891: A BiographyWilliam Byrd Press, Incorporated, 1925 - 484 páginas |
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... received a common school education , and was versed in the simple branches of mathematics . At the age of twenty he married Mary Patterson , by whom he had two sons , Archibald and Robert , and several daughters . For some time after ...
... received a common school education , and was versed in the simple branches of mathematics . At the age of twenty he married Mary Patterson , by whom he had two sons , Archibald and Robert , and several daughters . For some time after ...
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... received news of his death in Washington . In my open- ing in Fincastle I had said in my speech that in six weeks every bank in the country would be suspended . The state- ment excited considerable condemnation among some who heard it ...
... received news of his death in Washington . In my open- ing in Fincastle I had said in my speech that in six weeks every bank in the country would be suspended . The state- ment excited considerable condemnation among some who heard it ...
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... received with great favor by the Whigs of the country , and the author received many letters of com- mendation , among them one from Horace Greeley saying that he had received a copy of the speech " but had barely had a chance to read ...
... received with great favor by the Whigs of the country , and the author received many letters of com- mendation , among them one from Horace Greeley saying that he had received a copy of the speech " but had barely had a chance to read ...
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... received with much favor , and were republished in pamphlet form and used as campaign documents in the Presidential election of that year . In 1844 Mr. Stuart accepted an invitation to deliver the seventh anniversary address before the ...
... received with much favor , and were republished in pamphlet form and used as campaign documents in the Presidential election of that year . In 1844 Mr. Stuart accepted an invitation to deliver the seventh anniversary address before the ...
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... received a new impulse in its progress through France , Germany and England . Magna Charta bears testimony on its face to the truth of this assertion , for it secured London and all cities and boroughs their ancient liberties , and ...
... received a new impulse in its progress through France , Germany and England . Magna Charta bears testimony on its face to the truth of this assertion , for it secured London and all cities and boroughs their ancient liberties , and ...
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Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1807-1891: A Biography Alexander Farish Robertson Visualização integral - 1925 |
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Página 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Página 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Página 128 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Página 184 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Página 298 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of 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.
Página 76 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject...
Página 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Página 241 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility...
Página 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.