Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Nide 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 sivua |
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... council were the advocates for the extension of royal prerogative ; the house of representatives was confided in , as the guardian of the rights of the people . In queen Ann's reign a new attempt was made to abolish the colony charters ...
... council were the advocates for the extension of royal prerogative ; the house of representatives was confided in , as the guardian of the rights of the people . In queen Ann's reign a new attempt was made to abolish the colony charters ...
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... council and assembly were to be chosen by the freemen . But in sales of land , the proprietary not only took purchase- money , but reserved an annnal quit - rent , with the pre- text of furnishing the means of supporting the govern ment ...
... council and assembly were to be chosen by the freemen . But in sales of land , the proprietary not only took purchase- money , but reserved an annnal quit - rent , with the pre- text of furnishing the means of supporting the govern ment ...
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... council of regents , ( the king being in Hanover ) who decided that the pro- prietors had done acts that amounted to a forfeiture of their charter , which was accordingly annulled in 1720 , and Carolina taken under royal government ...
... council of regents , ( the king being in Hanover ) who decided that the pro- prietors had done acts that amounted to a forfeiture of their charter , which was accordingly annulled in 1720 , and Carolina taken under royal government ...
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... council , but the address containing severe reflections on his predecessor , he would not receive it . Observing the temper of the people , he began to think of measures of defence ; and directed Boston neck to be fortified . He also ...
... council , but the address containing severe reflections on his predecessor , he would not receive it . Observing the temper of the people , he began to think of measures of defence ; and directed Boston neck to be fortified . He also ...
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... council -and took measures to collect supplies and military stores , at Worcester and Concord . After an adjourn- ment , for a short time , they again met , determined on raising twelve thousand men - sent agents to the neigh- boring ...
... council -and took measures to collect supplies and military stores , at Worcester and Concord . After an adjourn- ment , for a short time , they again met , determined on raising twelve thousand men - sent agents to the neigh- boring ...
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...