Elements of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of SchoolsFrom Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1808 - 223 頁 |
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... most importance to the youth of this country , occupies a larger portion of the work , than will be appropriated to a defcription of the other parts of the earth . The two first volumes are closely connected , and ought to be used ...
... most importance to the youth of this country , occupies a larger portion of the work , than will be appropriated to a defcription of the other parts of the earth . The two first volumes are closely connected , and ought to be used ...
第 6 頁
... and Rhode - Ifland obtained charters with ample privileges , and fo well pleaf- ed was the king with the refpectful manner in which they treated him , that he wrote letters giving most flattering 6 Elements of Useful Knowledge .
... and Rhode - Ifland obtained charters with ample privileges , and fo well pleaf- ed was the king with the refpectful manner in which they treated him , that he wrote letters giving most flattering 6 Elements of Useful Knowledge .
第 7 頁
... most flattering afsurances that he would protect the colonies , in all their ehartered rights . He also appointed commiffioners to examin the state of the colonies , and decide controverfies between them . The king required that the ...
... most flattering afsurances that he would protect the colonies , in all their ehartered rights . He also appointed commiffioners to examin the state of the colonies , and decide controverfies between them . The king required that the ...
第 17 頁
... most able and diftinguished patriots in Maffachufetts who had long feen the neceffity of a feparation from Great Britain , but who wifhed , if poffible , to avoid an alternative that must in- volve the country in a fanguinary conteft ...
... most able and diftinguished patriots in Maffachufetts who had long feen the neceffity of a feparation from Great Britain , but who wifhed , if poffible , to avoid an alternative that must in- volve the country in a fanguinary conteft ...
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... most important questions that ever engaged the anxious folicitude of men . delegates were appointed by the colonial legislatures ; or where none exiled , the appointments were made by feled The - meetings and affociations of citizens ...
... most important questions that ever engaged the anxious folicitude of men . delegates were appointed by the colonial legislatures ; or where none exiled , the appointments were made by feled The - meetings and affociations of citizens ...
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第 221 頁 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
第 213 頁 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
第 207 頁 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my...
第 220 頁 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
第 220 頁 - It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to...
第 214 頁 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
第 210 頁 - But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...
第 208 頁 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
第 214 頁 - HOWEVER combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
第 216 頁 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.