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... period of your being a nurse I am always afraid of your continuing in health . I hope Mr. Eppes and yourself will so make your calculations as to leave the Hundred by the beginning of July at least . You should never trust yourselves in ...
... period of your being a nurse I am always afraid of your continuing in health . I hope Mr. Eppes and yourself will so make your calculations as to leave the Hundred by the beginning of July at least . You should never trust yourselves in ...
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... period . The subject occupies considerable space in Garland's Life of Randolph . The latter , unsparing towards even an equity which sprouted from corruption , was one of the strongest opponents of the claims ; and as sourness and ...
... period . The subject occupies considerable space in Garland's Life of Randolph . The latter , unsparing towards even an equity which sprouted from corruption , was one of the strongest opponents of the claims ; and as sourness and ...
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... period , when they or their family cadets , or friends , were candidates for con- tested seats in the House of Commons . It is matter of record that the fortunes of even noble families were wrecked in these contests . One of ...
... period , when they or their family cadets , or friends , were candidates for con- tested seats in the House of Commons . It is matter of record that the fortunes of even noble families were wrecked in these contests . One of ...
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... period no other nation was to have a right to the same privileges in the ports of the ceded territory . But this was not to affect the regulations . the United States might make concerning the exportation of their own produce and ...
... period no other nation was to have a right to the same privileges in the ports of the ceded territory . But this was not to affect the regulations . the United States might make concerning the exportation of their own produce and ...
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... period in applying his customary savory " free negro " comparisons to comparisons to our Government and people . Morris wrote Roger Griswold , November 25th , 1803 : " When the people have been long enough drunk , they will get sober ...
... period in applying his customary savory " free negro " comparisons to comparisons to our Government and people . Morris wrote Roger Griswold , November 25th , 1803 : " When the people have been long enough drunk , they will get sober ...
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Seite 611 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Seite 608 - That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 68 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 640 - But, 1 know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Seite 608 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 659 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 631 - His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 124 - I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with his providence, and our riper years with his wisdom and power...
Seite 480 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Seite 640 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.