Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion |
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... affection it would be lauded by the hungry man who sat him- self down , for the first time , to a repast where this rare sea- soner lent its flavor to the viands : how acute and pleasant would be the recognition of the man of nicely ...
... affection it would be lauded by the hungry man who sat him- self down , for the first time , to a repast where this rare sea- soner lent its flavor to the viands : how acute and pleasant would be the recognition of the man of nicely ...
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... affections ; they are symbols of the most agreeable thoughts and sentiments ; they are con- secrated by ancient custom to our amusements , our business , our fancies , our superstitions , and to our religion . He who will read the ...
... affections ; they are symbols of the most agreeable thoughts and sentiments ; they are con- secrated by ancient custom to our amusements , our business , our fancies , our superstitions , and to our religion . He who will read the ...
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... affections . And if , from other considerations , it fell into his plan to reduce the duties to a lower standard , it certainly never entered into his imagi- nation to bring them below the point of ample protection to the staple labor ...
... affections . And if , from other considerations , it fell into his plan to reduce the duties to a lower standard , it certainly never entered into his imagi- nation to bring them below the point of ample protection to the staple labor ...
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... affections and the interests of the people . All this is achieved by a tax ( if our opponents will have it so ) , of some ten or twenty mil- lions of dollars . Surely never was tax so recommended and consecrated by the virtue of its ...
... affections and the interests of the people . All this is achieved by a tax ( if our opponents will have it so ) , of some ten or twenty mil- lions of dollars . Surely never was tax so recommended and consecrated by the virtue of its ...
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... affection and virtue need not regret to join . Thither , since creation's dawn , have repaired , without one backward step , the innumerable crowds whose little inter- ests and earnest toils have ever made this orb a wondrous theatre of ...
... affection and virtue need not regret to join . Thither , since creation's dawn , have repaired , without one backward step , the innumerable crowds whose little inter- ests and earnest toils have ever made this orb a wondrous theatre of ...
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Page 448 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 115 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 122 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 351 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 124 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave...
Page 146 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queen's Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other Her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual and ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal ; and that no foreign Prince.
Page 296 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 143 - Knight, late Baron of Baltimore, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the steps of his Father, being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire...
Page 462 - Mr. MASON observed, not only that the present Confederation was deficient in not providing for coercion and punishment against delinquent States ; but argued very cogently, that punishment could not in the nature of things be executed on the States collectively, and therefore that such a government was necessary as could directly operate on individuals, and would punish those only whose guilt required it.
Page 461 - States to the contrary notwithstanding; and that if any State, or any body of men in any State shall oppose or prevent the carrying into execution such acts or treaties...