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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... vote in enacting laws . In a few years , controver- sies arose between the governor and the assembly ; and the ... voted to be treachery . In short , that province was distracted by disputes be- tween the governor and assembly ...
... vote in enacting laws . In a few years , controver- sies arose between the governor and the assembly ; and the ... voted to be treachery . In short , that province was distracted by disputes be- tween the governor and assembly ...
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... votes for supplying the army with pay and clothing The general congress met in May , and resolved to raise an army , and issue bills of credit to defray the expen- ses of the war . They now took the appellation of the UNITED COLONIES ...
... votes for supplying the army with pay and clothing The general congress met in May , and resolved to raise an army , and issue bills of credit to defray the expen- ses of the war . They now took the appellation of the UNITED COLONIES ...
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... voted him an address of thanks , and resolved that they continued . to have unshaken confidence in the justice of congress and their country . Thus was dissipated one of the most menacing storms that ever hung over Amer- ica . Of the ...
... voted him an address of thanks , and resolved that they continued . to have unshaken confidence in the justice of congress and their country . Thus was dissipated one of the most menacing storms that ever hung over Amer- ica . Of the ...
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... voted for pub- lic service were apportioned upon each state , to be rais ed in the manner the Legislature should prescribe . But the states soon became delinquent - the treasury was not supplied , and no provision was made for paying ...
... voted for pub- lic service were apportioned upon each state , to be rais ed in the manner the Legislature should prescribe . But the states soon became delinquent - the treasury was not supplied , and no provision was made for paying ...
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... vote , general Washington was elected the first pres- ident . With deep regret , that distinguished citizen was compelled , by the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens , to leave his beloved retirement , and accept the high ...
... vote , general Washington was elected the first pres- ident . With deep regret , that distinguished citizen was compelled , by the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens , to leave his beloved retirement , and accept the high ...
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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...