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... course . He always seemed to belong with us as much as to his own class ; for he had many friends , many society and personal associates among us . He was quick to discern character ; nor did class or society connections , those ...
... course . He always seemed to belong with us as much as to his own class ; for he had many friends , many society and personal associates among us . He was quick to discern character ; nor did class or society connections , those ...
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... course of steady and progressive fulfilment , -marked only by the fluctuations , ever visible in the march of human affairs , and authorizing a well - grounded hope of further development , in harmony with its auspicious beginnings , or ...
... course of steady and progressive fulfilment , -marked only by the fluctuations , ever visible in the march of human affairs , and authorizing a well - grounded hope of further development , in harmony with its auspicious beginnings , or ...
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... course of rapid degeneracy since the days of Wash- ington , is not only one of great antecedent improb- ability , but it is one which , it might be expected , our brethren in England would be slow to admit . The mass of the population ...
... course of rapid degeneracy since the days of Wash- ington , is not only one of great antecedent improb- ability , but it is one which , it might be expected , our brethren in England would be slow to admit . The mass of the population ...
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... course , its settlement by civilized man . It was not an easy task ; a mighty ocean separated the continent from the elder world ; a savage wilderness covered most of the country ; its barbarous and warlike inhabitants resisted from the ...
... course , its settlement by civilized man . It was not an easy task ; a mighty ocean separated the continent from the elder world ; a savage wilderness covered most of the country ; its barbarous and warlike inhabitants resisted from the ...
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... course of the debate , that , though he concurred with his brother peer in some of his remarks , " they were generally much exaggerated . " We too must admit with regret , that for some of the statements made to our discredit , there is ...
... course of the debate , that , though he concurred with his brother peer in some of his remarks , " they were generally much exaggerated . " We too must admit with regret , that for some of the statements made to our discredit , there is ...
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Seite 26 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Seite 5 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 37 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Seite 37 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 35 - I am sincerely one of those, and would rather be in dependence on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation on earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British Parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole Island in the ocean.
Seite 39 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
Seite 70 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 43 - The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed this declaration. The several States are not even mentioned by name in any part of...