Factors in American HistoryMacmillan, 1925 - 315 strani |
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... fact the appearance of this volume on American history would have required some apology from me , had not the responsibility for my appointment to that chair rested with others . I have had the privilege of addressing many American ...
... fact the appearance of this volume on American history would have required some apology from me , had not the responsibility for my appointment to that chair rested with others . I have had the privilege of addressing many American ...
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... fact in the make - up of the his- torian , and perspective as well as detail in architec- tural design . One of the ... facts . I could not , if I would , add to the mass of excellent research which now pours out in such a volume from ...
... fact in the make - up of the his- torian , and perspective as well as detail in architec- tural design . One of the ... facts . I could not , if I would , add to the mass of excellent research which now pours out in such a volume from ...
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... fact that we all spoke English did not prevent Great Britain from waging two wars on America , nor even Cavaliers ... facts that the United INHERITANCE AND TRADITION 9.
... fact that we all spoke English did not prevent Great Britain from waging two wars on America , nor even Cavaliers ... facts that the United INHERITANCE AND TRADITION 9.
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Albert Frederick Pollard. A better security lies in the facts that the United States inherited English problems , and that its people were predisposed , also by inheritance and tradition , to treat them in a somewhat similar way . " We ...
Albert Frederick Pollard. A better security lies in the facts that the United States inherited English problems , and that its people were predisposed , also by inheritance and tradition , to treat them in a somewhat similar way . " We ...
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... fact that they began to feel a similar need when their popula- tion was about six to the square mile . But England was an island , and even across the Narrow Seas the land belonged to fairly formidable neighbours . The Americans , after ...
... fact that they began to feel a similar need when their popula- tion was about six to the square mile . But England was an island , and even across the Narrow Seas the land belonged to fairly formidable neighbours . The Americans , after ...
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Stran 67 - In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation ; in which case, the rights of property and the public liberty will not be secure in their hands : or what is more probable, they will become the tools of opulence and ambition, in which case there will be equal danger on another side.
Stran 254 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Stran 162 - ... rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery, subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Stran 111 - Genet in 1793, when ten thousand people in the streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his house, and effect a revolution in the government, or compel it to declare war in favor of the French Revolution, and against England.
Stran 216 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Stran 120 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stran 179 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question, does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power.
Stran 103 - The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and round him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile ever since Congress first sat. The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore; of obligations which Congress repudiates whenever it can; of bargains which Congress distrusts and tries to turn to its advantage or to reject. Since the first...
Stran 19 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Stran 238 - We see, at the same time, with great concern, the position in which Great Britain is placed, and should be sincerely afflicted were any disaster to deprive mankind of the benefit of such a bulwark against the torrent which has for some time been bearing down all before it.