Some Information Respecting AmericaJ. Johnson, 1795 - 240 頁 After a 1793-94 visit to the United States, Thomas Cooper provided a lengthy description of the economy, the society, and the prospects for English subjects contemplating emigration. |
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... five hundred miles upon those waters , I arrived at Limestone , which is the general landing place for people coming by water from the United States . The descriptions hitherto given of Kentucky have generally been thought extravagant ...
... five hundred miles upon those waters , I arrived at Limestone , which is the general landing place for people coming by water from the United States . The descriptions hitherto given of Kentucky have generally been thought extravagant ...
第 32 頁
... five feet diameter . Pop- lars growing on the beach lands are fo common at five and fix feet through , as hardly to be no- ticed . The beech grows , to the thickness of four and five feet , and both of the last mention- ed to the height ...
... five feet diameter . Pop- lars growing on the beach lands are fo common at five and fix feet through , as hardly to be no- ticed . The beech grows , to the thickness of four and five feet , and both of the last mention- ed to the height ...
第 36 頁
... five months in the year . The lightness of the foil , in wet weather , foon makes the roads unpleasant for travelling , which are as foon dried again in fair weather . The rain finks presently below the furface ; the brooks , which were ...
... five months in the year . The lightness of the foil , in wet weather , foon makes the roads unpleasant for travelling , which are as foon dried again in fair weather . The rain finks presently below the furface ; the brooks , which were ...
第 41 頁
... river Alleghany ; mak- ing separate statements for the improvements from the Kifkeminetas to the fecond Falls inclu- five ; and from the faid Falls to the river Alle- ghany . VII . For VII . For improving the Ray's town branch of the ( 41 )
... river Alleghany ; mak- ing separate statements for the improvements from the Kifkeminetas to the fecond Falls inclu- five ; and from the faid Falls to the river Alle- ghany . VII . For VII . For improving the Ray's town branch of the ( 41 )
第 56 頁
... five or fix children fhall all fucceed . In America it is otherwife ; you may reason- ably reckon upon a comfortable settlement , ac- cording to your fituation in life , for every part of a family , however numerous . I declare I know ...
... five or fix children fhall all fucceed . In America it is otherwife ; you may reason- ably reckon upon a comfortable settlement , ac- cording to your fituation in life , for every part of a family , however numerous . I declare I know ...
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第 198 頁 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
第 200 頁 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved...
第 195 頁 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
第 201 頁 - That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state, is not, perhaps to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others...
第 199 頁 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
第 228 頁 - These ideas prevailing more or less in all the United States, it cannot be worth any man's while, who has a means of living at home, to expatriate himself, in hopes of obtaining a profitable •civil office in America; and, as to military offices, they are at an -end with the war, the armies being disbanded.
第 202 頁 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
第 185 頁 - No money fhall be drawn from the treafury, but in confequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular ftatement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money mall be publimed from time to time.
第 228 頁 - If he has any useful art, he is welcome; and if he exercises it, and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him; but a mere man of quality, who, on that account, wants to live upon the public, by some office or salary, will be despised and disregarded. The husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic, because their employments are useful.
第 201 頁 - ... is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish.