Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Հատոր 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 էջ |
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... seat of government and the center of trade . But this misera- ble stratagem had no effect , but to irritate the inhabit- ants of Salem , who disdained to thrive on the ruins of Boston . These proceedings , added to the detection of some ...
... seat of government and the center of trade . But this misera- ble stratagem had no effect , but to irritate the inhabit- ants of Salem , who disdained to thrive on the ruins of Boston . These proceedings , added to the detection of some ...
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... seat of war . Agreeable to this resolu- tion , he sailed from New - York with a large force in the severe winter of 1779-80 ; and after a tempestuous passage , in which he lost some of his transports , arrived at Savannah the latter ...
... seat of war . Agreeable to this resolu- tion , he sailed from New - York with a large force in the severe winter of 1779-80 ; and after a tempestuous passage , in which he lost some of his transports , arrived at Savannah the latter ...
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... seat- tered cases , every year ; but in some autumns becomes epidemic with great mortality . It however never in- Vades large cities with such general mortality , as it does particular parts of the country . The malignant bilious fever ...
... seat- tered cases , every year ; but in some autumns becomes epidemic with great mortality . It however never in- Vades large cities with such general mortality , as it does particular parts of the country . The malignant bilious fever ...
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... seat of the courts in Rocking- ham county , is situated on the south bank of the Pis- cataway , about two miles from the sea , sixty - three miles north - east of Boston , in latitude 43. 5. north . It is the only commercial town and ...
... seat of the courts in Rocking- ham county , is situated on the south bank of the Pis- cataway , about two miles from the sea , sixty - three miles north - east of Boston , in latitude 43. 5. north . It is the only commercial town and ...
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... seat of the courts in Grafton county , on Ba- ker's river at its junction with the Pemigewasset , for- ty - five miles north of Concord , contained in the year 1800 , seven hundred and fifty inhabitants Hanover , the seat of Dartmouth ...
... seat of the courts in Grafton county , on Ba- ker's river at its junction with the Pemigewasset , for- ty - five miles north of Concord , contained in the year 1800 , seven hundred and fifty inhabitants Hanover , the seat of Dartmouth ...
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Elements of Useful Knowledge: Containing a historical and geographical ... Noah Webster Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1813 |
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Էջ 209 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
Էջ 214 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
Էջ 213 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
Էջ 209 - 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...
Էջ 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Էջ 216 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Էջ 213 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Էջ 213 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
Էջ 212 - 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...