The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers : to which are Added a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United StatesS.H. Henry & Company, 1835 - 300 sider |
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... eight persons . Soon after , however , succors arrived from England , and an addition of one hundred new planters ... thousand miles , amidst al- most incredible hardships , and brought back with him an account of that large tract of ...
... eight persons . Soon after , however , succors arrived from England , and an addition of one hundred new planters ... thousand miles , amidst al- most incredible hardships , and brought back with him an account of that large tract of ...
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... 8. In a short time the French were dispossessed , not only of all the territories in ... eight years , a general peace was concluded : France ceded Canada , and ... hundred cruisers on the sea , and furnishing more than twenty - four thousand ...
... 8. In a short time the French were dispossessed , not only of all the territories in ... eight years , a general peace was concluded : France ceded Canada , and ... hundred cruisers on the sea , and furnishing more than twenty - four thousand ...
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... thousand eight hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each person . The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be sus- pended , unless when , in cases of ...
... thousand eight hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each person . The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be sus- pended , unless when , in cases of ...
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... thousand eight hundred and eight , shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state , without its consent , shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate ...
... thousand eight hundred and eight , shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state , without its consent , shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate ...
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... one senator be annually elected in each senate district . 6. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the state shall be taken , under the direction of the legislature , in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty - five , and at the ...
... one senator be annually elected in each senate district . 6. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the state shall be taken , under the direction of the legislature , in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty - five , and at the ...
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Side 293 - Legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Side 269 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Side 291 - In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Side 269 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Side 202 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page; How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Side 264 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Side 263 - He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Side 109 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
Side 153 - ... fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Side 181 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.