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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... trade . What then will probably be the conditions you would feek in the fituation you are finally to adopt ? Coming from a country where the church is forced into what you deem an unnatural con- nection with the ftate , and where your ...
... trade . What then will probably be the conditions you would feek in the fituation you are finally to adopt ? Coming from a country where the church is forced into what you deem an unnatural con- nection with the ftate , and where your ...
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... trade ) to go where land is cheap and fertile ; where it is in a progrefs of improvement , and if poffible in the neighbourhood of a few Eng- lish , whose fociety , even in America , is interest- ing to an English fettler , who cannot ...
... trade ) to go where land is cheap and fertile ; where it is in a progrefs of improvement , and if poffible in the neighbourhood of a few Eng- lish , whose fociety , even in America , is interest- ing to an English fettler , who cannot ...
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... trade in this part of America , and to the in- habitants themselves , quitting their fituations for the profpect of a more advantageous trade . It is rather adapted for a grazing than a corn coun- try ; scantily timbered , comparatively ...
... trade in this part of America , and to the in- habitants themselves , quitting their fituations for the profpect of a more advantageous trade . It is rather adapted for a grazing than a corn coun- try ; scantily timbered , comparatively ...
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... trade , and the back parts of the state afford , at no very dear price , immense tracts of the richeft land . Nei- ther is the climate in general fo different from that of Great Britain , as to constitute any formi- dable objection to ...
... trade , and the back parts of the state afford , at no very dear price , immense tracts of the richeft land . Nei- ther is the climate in general fo different from that of Great Britain , as to constitute any formi- dable objection to ...
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... trading to the respective parts of America . The two ports of Philadelphia and New - York enjoy about one - third of the whole trade of America , and the proportion of the former is double that of the latter port . emigrants emigrants ...
... trading to the respective parts of America . The two ports of Philadelphia and New - York enjoy about one - third of the whole trade of America , and the proportion of the former is double that of the latter port . emigrants emigrants ...
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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.