Annual Report of the American Historical Association

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900

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Сторінка iv - The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said Association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history...
Сторінка 63 - I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her ; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it...
Сторінка 650 - Travels through North and South Carolina. Georgia. East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges. or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws: containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions. together with observations on the manners of the Indians.
Сторінка 111 - ... requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires, at the same time, that the Senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages; and which, participating immediately in transactions with foreign nations, ought to be exercised by none who are not thoroughly weaned from the prepossessions and habits incident to foreign birth and education.
Сторінка 678 - State, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of said State, entitled "An act for running out and marking the jurisdiction line between this State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
Сторінка 146 - ... one person to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of one, toward the incumbent of the other. Thus, a man may not be landlord and tenant of the same premises. He may be landlord of one farm and tenant of another, though he may not at the same hour be able to do the duty of each relation. The offices must subordinate, one the other, and they must, per se, have the right to interfere, one with the other, before they are incompatible at common law
Сторінка 557 - Such a solution of the problem is open to obvious objections, which are emphatically stated by M. L/eroy-Beaulieu. He calls it "an encroachment of the executive power upon the essential functions of the representatives of the. people; its consequence is that colonial questions are settled with the minimum of discussion and information, and then are noiselessly hidden from sight and hearing." But there is much to be said on the other side. It is difficult to see how the multitude of questions constantly...
Сторінка 167 - Benton, Mangum and Hannegan. Polk declared his opinion unchanged and expressed his belief that Webster's object was to defeat the treaty. Sevier said Webster wanted no territory beyond the Rio Grande, and Polk comments in his diary : " Extremes meet. Mr. / Webster is for no territory and Mr. Hannegan is for all Mexico. Benton's position cannot be calculated.
Сторінка 160 - September 4, 1847, that if the war was still further prolonged he would " be unwilling to pay the sum which Mr. Trist had been authorized to pay," in the settlement of a boundary, by which it was contemplated that the United States would acquire New Mexico and the Californias ; and that " if Mexico continued obstinately to refuse to treat, I was decidedly in favor of insisting on more territory than the provinces named.
Сторінка 108 - He was opposed to the establishment of an undue aristocratic influence in the Constitution but he thought it essential that the members of the Legislature, the Executive, and the Judges, should be possessed of competent property to make them independent and respectable.

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