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... 17 , 1492 collected five hundred and seventy titles of histories , [ 5 ] poems , plays , prophecies , letters , and narratives The New World 5 ALEXANDER OF NECKAM, De Natura Rerum, ed Thos Wright, in Rolls Series, Book II, chap 98, p 183.
... 17 , 1492 collected five hundred and seventy titles of histories , [ 5 ] poems , plays , prophecies , letters , and narratives The New World 5 ALEXANDER OF NECKAM, De Natura Rerum, ed Thos Wright, in Rolls Series, Book II, chap 98, p 183.
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... hundred and seven leagues as far as where it terminated ; from which headland I saw another island to the east . . . to which I at once gave the name La Spaņola.1 . . . The lands are all most beautiful ... and full of trees of a ...
... hundred and seven leagues as far as where it terminated ; from which headland I saw another island to the east . . . to which I at once gave the name La Spaņola.1 . . . The lands are all most beautiful ... and full of trees of a ...
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... hundred and eleven out of the original company of six hundred arrived at the Mexican town of Panuco , September 14 , 1543 . All of them were apparrelled in Deeres skins tanned and died black , to wit cotes , hose , and shooes . When ...
... hundred and eleven out of the original company of six hundred arrived at the Mexican town of Panuco , September 14 , 1543 . All of them were apparrelled in Deeres skins tanned and died black , to wit cotes , hose , and shooes . When ...
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... hundred more . As yet I have gotten nothing , save onely ( if I may speak it without boasting ) a general reputation of integrity . . . . As touching the quality of this country , three things there bee which in a fewe yeares may bring ...
... hundred more . As yet I have gotten nothing , save onely ( if I may speak it without boasting ) a general reputation of integrity . . . . As touching the quality of this country , three things there bee which in a fewe yeares may bring ...
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... hundreds more were intented for us . The Government was no sooner in these Hands , but care was taken to load preferments principally upon such Men as were strangers to , and haters of the People : and evryones Observation hath noted ...
... hundreds more were intented for us . The Government was no sooner in these Hands , but care was taken to load preferments principally upon such Men as were strangers to , and haters of the People : and evryones Observation hath noted ...
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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.