The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United StatesPorter & Coates, 1852 - 465 sider |
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... considerable eminence and large practice in that city . In the spring of 1791 , at the age of eighteen , he was sent to Philadelphia for the purpose of completing his medical studies under the eminent Dr. Richard Rush , a revolutionary ...
... considerable eminence and large practice in that city . In the spring of 1791 , at the age of eighteen , he was sent to Philadelphia for the purpose of completing his medical studies under the eminent Dr. Richard Rush , a revolutionary ...
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... considerable eminence and large practice in that city . In the spring of 1791 , at the age of eighteen , he was sent to Philadelphia for the purpose of completing his medical studies under the eminent Dr. Richard Rush , a revolutionary ...
... considerable eminence and large practice in that city . In the spring of 1791 , at the age of eighteen , he was sent to Philadelphia for the purpose of completing his medical studies under the eminent Dr. Richard Rush , a revolutionary ...
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... considerable knowledge of discipline . In courage and the power of endurance they had no su- periors in any country or age of the world , though in physical strength they were inferior to the descend- ants of Europeans . * * Frost's ...
... considerable knowledge of discipline . In courage and the power of endurance they had no su- periors in any country or age of the world , though in physical strength they were inferior to the descend- ants of Europeans . * * Frost's ...
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... considerable army ; and in April , 1792 , General Anthony Wayne , who had rendered his name illustrious during the revolution- ary struggle , was nominated by President Washing- ton to take command of it , with the title of Major ...
... considerable army ; and in April , 1792 , General Anthony Wayne , who had rendered his name illustrious during the revolution- ary struggle , was nominated by President Washing- ton to take command of it , with the title of Major ...
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... considerable sums of money have been appropriated , and agents employed , to humanize their minds , and instruct them in such arts of civilized life as they are capable of receiving . To provide a substitute for the chase , from which ...
... considerable sums of money have been appropriated , and agents employed , to humanize their minds , and instruct them in such arts of civilized life as they are capable of receiving . To provide a substitute for the chase , from which ...
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Side 372 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government; I wish them carried out; I ask nothing more...
Side 345 - They hover over and harass our entering and deporting commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction.
Side 345 - Not content with these occasional expedients for laying waste our neutral trade, the cabinet of...
Side 345 - ... carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong...
Side 295 - I shall now deliver, or, approving them, to doubt the sincerity with which they are now uttered. But the lapse of a few months will confirm or dispel their fears. The outline of principles to govern and measures to be adopted by an administration not yet begun will soon be exchanged for immutable history, and I shall stand either exonerated by my countrymen or classed with the mass of those who promised that they might deceive, and flattered with the intention to betray.
Side 306 - A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged. Upon another occasion I have given my opinion at some length upon the impropriety of Executive interference in the legislation of Congress — that the article in the Constitution making it the duty of the President to communicate information and...
Side 21 - June 1776, he submitted a resolution, declaring, " that the united colonies are and ought to be free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance, to the British crown ; and that all political connection, between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Side 345 - ... declaration of the fact, that the blockade did not exist. The declaration would have been consistent with her avowed principles of blockade, and would have enabled the United States to demand from France the pledged...
Side 297 - It would not become me to say that the fears of these patriots have been already realized; but as I sincerely believe that the tendency of measures and of men's opinions for some years past has been in that direction, it is, I conceive, strictly proper that I should take this occasion to repeat the assurances I have heretofore given of my determination to arrest the progress of that tendency if it really exists and restore the Government to its pristine health and vigor, as far as this can be effected...