Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, Volume 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224 halaman |
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... kind , The brief view given of the constitution of the several states , will , it is presumed , be well receiv- ed ; as nothing can be more proper for the instruc- tion of youth , than a correct epitome of the princi- 1 ples on which ...
... kind , The brief view given of the constitution of the several states , will , it is presumed , be well receiv- ed ; as nothing can be more proper for the instruc- tion of youth , than a correct epitome of the princi- 1 ples on which ...
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... kind of government the assembly was bound to pro- vide the governor with his salary . This was an unceas- ing source of discord . When a good understanding did not subsist between the governor and the assembly , which often happened ...
... kind of government the assembly was bound to pro- vide the governor with his salary . This was an unceas- ing source of discord . When a good understanding did not subsist between the governor and the assembly , which often happened ...
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... compel them to export their iron , and import the manufactures of England . This arbitrary law was enforced , to the destruction of ish some machines of the kinds mentioned , and the dissat- Elements of Useful Knowledge . 11.
... compel them to export their iron , and import the manufactures of England . This arbitrary law was enforced , to the destruction of ish some machines of the kinds mentioned , and the dissat- Elements of Useful Knowledge . 11.
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... kinds mentioned , and the dissat- isfaction of the colonies . Of the Stamp Act . After the peace of 1763 , the British parliament formed a plan of raising a revenue by taxing the colonies . The pretext for it , was to ob- tain ...
... kinds mentioned , and the dissat- isfaction of the colonies . Of the Stamp Act . After the peace of 1763 , the British parliament formed a plan of raising a revenue by taxing the colonies . The pretext for it , was to ob- tain ...
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... kind of executive council -and took measures to collect supplies and military stores , at Worcester and Concord . After an adjourn- ment , for a short time , they again met , determined on raising twelve thousand men - sent agents to ...
... kind of executive council -and took measures to collect supplies and military stores , at Worcester and Concord . After an adjourn- ment , for a short time , they again met , determined on raising twelve thousand men - sent agents to ...
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Halaman 209 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
Halaman 214 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
Halaman 213 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
Halaman 209 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Halaman 212 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Halaman 216 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Halaman 213 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Halaman 213 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
Halaman 212 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...