Young Folks' History of the United StatesLee and Shepard, 1875 - 370 Seiten |
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... remained a floor above these arches , making a second story to the building . There are two windows and a fireplace , but nothing to show for what use the building was originally employed . Yet it is not , outwardly , a ruin , since the ...
... remained a floor above these arches , making a second story to the building . There are two windows and a fireplace , but nothing to show for what use the building was originally employed . Yet it is not , outwardly , a ruin , since the ...
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... remained for a long time ; and some of these emigrants may easily have sailed on to Labrador ; or some vessel bound for Greenland may have been driven too far west , and so reached the mainland without intending it . At any rate , it is ...
... remained for a long time ; and some of these emigrants may easily have sailed on to Labrador ; or some vessel bound for Greenland may have been driven too far west , and so reached the mainland without intending it . At any rate , it is ...
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... remained long , having reached home again in three months . Their maps and journals are all lost ; but we know that they were the first Europeans , after the Northmen , to visit the mainland of North America . A letter from a Venetian ...
... remained long , having reached home again in three months . Their maps and journals are all lost ; but we know that they were the first Europeans , after the Northmen , to visit the mainland of North America . A letter from a Venetian ...
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... remained , and founded what is now the State of Virginia ; but the Maine colonists gave up their enterprise very soon . Most of them went back to England in the autumn ; but a portion staid till spring , building a storehouse , with a ...
... remained , and founded what is now the State of Virginia ; but the Maine colonists gave up their enterprise very soon . Most of them went back to England in the autumn ; but a portion staid till spring , building a storehouse , with a ...
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... remained an English province , and lost some of its Dutch peculiarities : but some of these traits lingered for a good many years ; and Dutch was long the prevailing language . There were still Dutch schools , where English was taught ...
... remained an English province , and lost some of its Dutch peculiarities : but some of these traits lingered for a good many years ; and Dutch was long the prevailing language . There were still Dutch schools , where English was taught ...
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Seite 318 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Seite 340 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 355 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Seite 303 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Seite 303 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Seite 303 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Seite 345 - Sect. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Seite 318 - The Almighty has. His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Seite 350 - States ; and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice-President. But, if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them, by ballot, the Vice-President. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United...
Seite 196 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The...