The American Historical Review, Volume 32

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John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler
American Historical Association, 1927 - Electronic journals
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

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Page 490 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 471 - A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 'Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 872 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...
Page 795 - The far-reaching, the boundless future, will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High— the Sacred and the True.
Page 218 - J. Franklin Jameson, director of the department of historical research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
Page 795 - ... between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfilment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
Page 96 - Behold a wonder worthy of the rhyme " Of him who from the lowest depths of hell, Through every paradise and through all glory, Love led serene, and who returned to tell " The words of hate and awe, — the wondrous story How all things are transfigured except Love...
Page 63 - Esq., whose name is hereunder written, one of her Majesty's justices of the peace for the city and liberty of Westminster and county of Middlesex...
Page 481 - ... have brought in superstition and " scandal under the titles of Reverence and Decency " —to have defiled our Church by adorning our "churches — to have slackened the strictness of that " union which was formerly between us and those of " our religion beyond the sea: an action as impolitic -
Page 285 - States will look to and settle for themselves. The high character of the American people, is a sufficient pledge to the world, that they will not fail to settle it, on conditions which they have a right to claim More recently the true policy of the British government towards the United States has been completely unfolded. It has been publicly declared by those in power that the orders in council should...

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