Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volum 2

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Illinois State Historical Library, 1907 - 663 sider
 

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Side 265 - Pennsylvania as a free and independent State and that I will not at any time do or cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof...
Side 472 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Side 509 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand, sue for...
Side 511 - ... shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents.
Side cxi - The cause of all these evils was the love of power originating in avarice and ambition, and the party spirit which is engendered by them when men are fairly embarked in a contest. For the leaders on either side used specious names: the one party professing to uphold the constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of an aristocracy; while they made the public interests, to which...
Side cxi - ... aristocracy ; while they made the public interests, to which in name they were devoted, in reality their prize. Striving in every way to overcome each other, they committed the most monstrous crimes, yet even these were surpassed by the magnitude of their revenges, which they pursued to the very utmost, — neither party observing any definite limits either of justice or public expediency, but both alike making the caprice of the moment their law.
Side xlvii - I believe that no people ever had their business done more to their satisfaction than they had through the means of these regulations for a considerable time.
Side 515 - Mind the Mortality of My body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will...
Side lv - Direction to Give than this, that you Consider yourself at the head of the Civill department, and as Such having the Commd of the militia, who are not to be under the Commd of the military untill ordered out by the Civil Authority, and to Act in conjuction with them.
Side 509 - Know all men by these presents that I, John Askins of Detroit, merchant, have made, ordained, constituted and appointed and by these presents do make, ordain, constitute and appoint and in my place and stead put and depute Mr.

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