All about Texas Boiled Down ... as it Was--as it Is--and as it Will Be!W. N. Bryant W.N. Bryant, 1879 - 176 էջ |
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Էջ 87 - ... no man shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, against his consent...
Էջ 87 - All courts shall be open; and every man, for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial, or delay.
Էջ 99 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Էջ 102 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Էջ 88 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
Էջ 87 - No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority...
Էջ 88 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address, or remonstrance.
Էջ 87 - State, and that it is the duty of the legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to...
Էջ 109 - The following classification in the one most generally received : 1. The Pyramids of Egypt ; 2. The Pharos of Alexandria ; 3. The walls and hanging gardens of Babylon ; 4. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus ; 5. The Statue of the Olympian Jupiter; 6. The Mausoleum of Artemisia ; 7. The Colossus of Rhodes.
Էջ 80 - One thousand shingles, laid 4 inches to the weather, will cover 100 square feet of surface, and 5 pounds of shingle nails will fasten them on. One-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the number of square feet of surface to be covered, because of the lap in the siding and matching.