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... tion to an author whose thought or form of expression has been , in some measure , adopted . Much information , however , has been gathered from sources not herein mentioned . 1 Wendell's " Literary History of America " is an excellent ...
... tion to an author whose thought or form of expression has been , in some measure , adopted . Much information , however , has been gathered from sources not herein mentioned . 1 Wendell's " Literary History of America " is an excellent ...
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... tion , the electric telegraph , the cylinder press , the sewing machine , the mower and reaper , anæsthetics , the telephone , the electric light , and the electric railway is the most astonishing fact in the history of modern progress ...
... tion , the electric telegraph , the cylinder press , the sewing machine , the mower and reaper , anæsthetics , the telephone , the electric light , and the electric railway is the most astonishing fact in the history of modern progress ...
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... tion of Asia , with the numberless adjacent islands , was known as the Indies ; and the term had also a general use which included the islands of Cipango , or Japan , and parts of China , known by the poetic name of Cathay . There were ...
... tion of Asia , with the numberless adjacent islands , was known as the Indies ; and the term had also a general use which included the islands of Cipango , or Japan , and parts of China , known by the poetic name of Cathay . There were ...
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... tion to improve his own condition , to make his race a world force , or to elevate it above the state of barbarism . The Indian languages are laden with poetic beauty ; but no Indian has produced a poem that will live , no Indian has ...
... tion to improve his own condition , to make his race a world force , or to elevate it above the state of barbarism . The Indian languages are laden with poetic beauty ; but no Indian has produced a poem that will live , no Indian has ...
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... tion to fight them as long as they remained in his territory . The various Indian tribes were usually friendly to their first white visitors , and the Spanish commander was at a loss to account for such hostility ; but he soon ...
... tion to fight them as long as they remained in his territory . The various Indian tribes were usually friendly to their first white visitors , and the Spanish commander was at a loss to account for such hostility ; but he soon ...
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Page 317 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 381 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation none.
Page 640 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 659 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 75 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 702 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 75 - The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children.
Page 241 - Colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of Tea could bear an imposition of three-pence. But no commodity will bear three-pence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay.
Page 153 - ... the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 661 - ... this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.