Constitution, Members, Proceedings, Papers and Addresses, Volume 1

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Argus and Patriot Steam Book Press, 1882
Memorial papers included in the appendices.

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Halaman 18 - But the power of governing is a trust committed by the people to the government, no part of which can be granted away. The people in their sovereign capacity have established their agencies for the preservation of the public health and the public morals and the protection of public and private rights. These several agencies can govern according to their discretion, if within the scope of their general authority while in power, but they cannot give away nor sell the discretion of those that are to...
Halaman 52 - Canada northward ; and also all that island or islands commonly called by the several name or names of Meitowacks, or Long-Island, situate and being towards the west of Cape Cod and the narrow Higansetts, abutting upon the main land, between the two rivers there, called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river, together also with the said' river called Hudson's river, and all the land from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay...
Halaman 16 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Halaman 17 - ... however difficult it may be to render a satisfactory definition of it, there seems to be no doubt that it does extend to the protection of the lives, health and property of the citizens and to the preservation of good order and the public morals. The Legislature cannot, by any contract, divest itself of the power to provide for these objects.
Halaman 37 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Halaman 92 - In all the civil difficulties of life, men depend upon your exercised faculties and your spotless integrity; and they require of you an elevation above all that is mean, and a spirit which will never yield when it ought not to yield. As long as your profession retains its character for learning, the rights of mankind will be well arranged; as long as it retains its character for virtuous boldness, those rights will be well defended...
Halaman 35 - It can require no argument to prove that the circumstances of this case constitute a contract. An application is made to the crown for a charter to incorporate a religious and literary institution. In the application it is stated that large contributions have been made for the object, which will be conferred on the corporation as soon as it shall be created. The charter is granted, and and on its faith the property is conveyed. Surely in this transaction every ingredient of a complete and legitimate...
Halaman 53 - Massachusetts Bay, as far North as the forty-fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to be the Boundary Line between the said two Provinces of New Hampshire and New York.
Halaman 26 - Each of the heroes round us has fought for his land and line, But thou hast fought for a stranger, in hate of a wrong not thine. "Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed; But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
Halaman 52 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage...

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