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... continues On Sunday the 18 of May , in the yeere of our Lord 1539 the Adelantado , or president , departed from Havana in Cuba with his fleete , which were nine vessels . . . . They sailed seven daies with a prosperous wind . The 25 day ...
... continues On Sunday the 18 of May , in the yeere of our Lord 1539 the Adelantado , or president , departed from Havana in Cuba with his fleete , which were nine vessels . . . . They sailed seven daies with a prosperous wind . The 25 day ...
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... continue in that condition , they resolved to get over into Holland as they could : which was in the year 1607 and 1608. . . . But to go into a country they knew not ( but by hearsay ) wher they must learne a new language and get their ...
... continue in that condition , they resolved to get over into Holland as they could : which was in the year 1607 and 1608. . . . But to go into a country they knew not ( but by hearsay ) wher they must learne a new language and get their ...
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... continues : Within the towne , in the midway between the N. W. corner and N. E. gate , the ground hath a smal descent on each side 1 This is an exaggeration . The Dutch had " frequented " the regions for only about thirty years at the ...
... continues : Within the towne , in the midway between the N. W. corner and N. E. gate , the ground hath a smal descent on each side 1 This is an exaggeration . The Dutch had " frequented " the regions for only about thirty years at the ...
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David Saville Muzzey. much alike , and so continues through the towne unto the arme of water on the Easter - side of the ... continuing north nearly to Beaver Street . It was constructed in 1657-1659 to drain the swamp on the east side of ...
David Saville Muzzey. much alike , and so continues through the towne unto the arme of water on the Easter - side of the ... continuing north nearly to Beaver Street . It was constructed in 1657-1659 to drain the swamp on the east side of ...
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... continue free denizens , and enjoy their lands , houses , goods , shipps , wheresoever they are within this country .. ... 4. If any inhabitant have a mind to remove himself 62 The Establishment of the English Documents Relative to the ...
... continue free denizens , and enjoy their lands , houses , goods , shipps , wheresoever they are within this country .. ... 4. If any inhabitant have a mind to remove himself 62 The Establishment of the English Documents Relative to the ...
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Page 404 - 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 272 - ... 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 173 - 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 232 - 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 555 - 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 380 - 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...
Page 379 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North...
Page 531 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 355 - Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 379 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.