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... land of opportunity FRANKLIN , Works ( see No. 27 ) , Vol . VIII , pp . 603-614 183 J. B. MCMASTER , History of the People of the United States , Vol . I , pp . 517–519 186 . . 187 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - LIANCOURT , Voyage dans les États ...
... land of opportunity FRANKLIN , Works ( see No. 27 ) , Vol . VIII , pp . 603-614 183 J. B. MCMASTER , History of the People of the United States , Vol . I , pp . 517–519 186 . . 187 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - LIANCOURT , Voyage dans les États ...
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... lands might be found to the west of the Pillars of Hercules . Strabo , a Greek geographer of the first century A.D. , says : The temperate zone makes a continuous circle by uniting with itself , so that , if the great size of the ...
... lands might be found to the west of the Pillars of Hercules . Strabo , a Greek geographer of the first century A.D. , says : The temperate zone makes a continuous circle by uniting with itself , so that , if the great size of the ...
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... lands are all most beautiful . . . and full of trees of a thousand kinds , so lofty that they seem to reach the sky ... land to be desired , and once seen , never to be relinquished , in which , in a place most suitable and best for its ...
... lands are all most beautiful . . . and full of trees of a thousand kinds , so lofty that they seem to reach the sky ... land to be desired , and once seen , never to be relinquished , in which , in a place most suitable and best for its ...
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... land , to such a degree that he prided himself on calling and holding me as his brother . . . . In another island , which they assure me is larger than Española , the people have no hair . In this there is incalculable gold ; and ...
... land , to such a degree that he prided himself on calling and holding me as his brother . . . . In another island , which they assure me is larger than Española , the people have no hair . In this there is incalculable gold ; and ...
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... land at a place be- longing to the Portuguese called Mozambique , both because the ship made much water and because of the great cold which we suffered . . . . But the greater number of us , prizing honor more than life itself , decided ...
... land at a place be- longing to the Portuguese called Mozambique , both because the ship made much water and because of the great cold which we suffered . . . . But the greater number of us , prizing honor more than life itself , decided ...
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Page 408 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 276 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 445 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 446 - For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 177 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 248 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 245 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Page 236 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 559 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Page 384 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored Land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present...