A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the First Century of the Union of the States. Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, Volum 4 |
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A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of ..., Volum 4 William Cullen Bryant,Sydney Howard Gay Visualització completa - 1881 |
A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of ..., Volum 4 William Cullen Bryant,Sydney Howard Gay Visualització completa - 1881 |
A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of ..., Volum 4 William Cullen Bryant,Sydney Howard Gay Visualització completa - 1892 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 186 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Pàgina 291 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government ; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.
Pàgina 80 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Pàgina 93 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Pàgina 152 - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Pàgina 586 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Pàgina 294 - Contemplate the condition of that country of which you still form an important part. Consider its Government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different States, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of American citizen, protecting their commerce, securing their literature and their arts, facilitating their intercommunication, defending their frontiers, and making their name respected in the remotest parts of the earth.
Pàgina 89 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Pàgina 506 - SIR: — The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
Pàgina 325 - Smith (December 27, 1847) praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia.
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| Títol | A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the First Century of the Union of the States. Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, Volum 4 Volum 4 de A Popular History of the United States, William Cullen and Gay Sydney Howard Bryant A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the First Century of the Union of the States. Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, William Cullen Bryant |
| Autors | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay |
| Editor | Scribner, Armstrong, & Company, 1882 |
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