A History of the American PeopleD. Lothrop, 1883 - 668 sider |
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... hundred miles to the eastward of China . Besides , the imagination had firmly fixed in men's minds a belief in the existence of lands of fabulous wealth to the westward of Europe . On the maps of the time of Columbus , we find the ...
... hundred miles to the eastward of China . Besides , the imagination had firmly fixed in men's minds a belief in the existence of lands of fabulous wealth to the westward of Europe . On the maps of the time of Columbus , we find the ...
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... hundred leagues beyond it , * curious to know if that frozen land * Humbolt asserts that in Scandanavia Columbus learned traditions which confirmed him in his views regarding a Western continent . THE DISCOVERER'S PREPARATION . 9 were ...
... hundred leagues beyond it , * curious to know if that frozen land * Humbolt asserts that in Scandanavia Columbus learned traditions which confirmed him in his views regarding a Western continent . THE DISCOVERER'S PREPARATION . 9 were ...
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... hundred years before Columbus , belong rather to the domain of the antiquary or the poet than to that of the historian . While , as Dr. Palfrey says , it is nowise unlikely that these sturdy voy- agers pushed their keels as far as the ...
... hundred years before Columbus , belong rather to the domain of the antiquary or the poet than to that of the historian . While , as Dr. Palfrey says , it is nowise unlikely that these sturdy voy- agers pushed their keels as far as the ...
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... hundred leagues , " according to his computation , arrived , as he supposed , at the shores of the kingdom of the Grand Cham . He must have suffered a revul- sion of feelings as he saw the land , for he had actually come upon the dreary ...
... hundred leagues , " according to his computation , arrived , as he supposed , at the shores of the kingdom of the Grand Cham . He must have suffered a revul- sion of feelings as he saw the land , for he had actually come upon the dreary ...
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... hundred and thirty - three days , while that of Columbus was less than one half that time , and he had actually circumnavigated the globe , for he had reached , by sailing westward , a point which he had in a former voyage passed in ...
... hundred and thirty - three days , while that of Columbus was less than one half that time , and he had actually circumnavigated the globe , for he had reached , by sailing westward , a point which he had in a former voyage passed in ...
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Side 629 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Side 613 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states...
Side 631 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Side 616 - States; and the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in congress assembled: but if the United States in congress assembled, shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any state should not raise men or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Side 620 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Side 623 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Side 617 - Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled, is requisite. ART. XI. Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union, but no other...
Side 294 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Side 612 - ... felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Side 201 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.