American History Told by Contemporaries ...Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis Macmillan, 1924 - 606 páginas |
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... mean ? As history is an account of the past actions of men , every historical statement must go back to the memory of those who saw the events , or to some record made at the time . Tradition is the handing down of memories from one ...
... mean ? As history is an account of the past actions of men , every historical statement must go back to the memory of those who saw the events , or to some record made at the time . Tradition is the handing down of memories from one ...
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... means to reconcile them . Even in English universities only the most highly - specialized historical students use sources as an essential part of their study and training . The opposing method expects some knowledge of the original mate ...
... means to reconcile them . Even in English universities only the most highly - specialized historical students use sources as an essential part of their study and training . The opposing method expects some knowledge of the original mate ...
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... means ) had their Wrists bound fast together with a real Cord , so as it could hardly be taken off without cutting . Some Afflicted have been found with their Arms tyed , and hanged upon an Hook , from whence others have been forced to ...
... means ) had their Wrists bound fast together with a real Cord , so as it could hardly be taken off without cutting . Some Afflicted have been found with their Arms tyed , and hanged upon an Hook , from whence others have been forced to ...
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... mean sort of people , yet true and loyall subjects to his Most Excellent Majesty , King William , and we hope time ... means to eclipse us of our priviledges ; and we know he picked up severall false reports against us . But we do not ...
... mean sort of people , yet true and loyall subjects to his Most Excellent Majesty , King William , and we hope time ... means to eclipse us of our priviledges ; and we know he picked up severall false reports against us . But we do not ...
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... mean performance , I hope you will receive it with candour . I have nothing but my memory to depend upon , which in a man advanced to the eighty - first year of his age is but a poor library . Yet I am confident the chronology and the ...
... mean performance , I hope you will receive it with candour . I have nothing but my memory to depend upon , which in a man advanced to the eighty - first year of his age is but a poor library . Yet I am confident the chronology and the ...
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Página 263 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Página 625 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping.
Página 232 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 155 - Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
Página 401 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Página 465 - The winds ceased to murmur; the thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along, And a voice as of angels, enchantingly sung: " Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies.
Página 116 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, or the stone of Help *, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
Página 156 - New-York for our approbation or disallowance of the same as also duplicates thereof by the next conveyance and in case any or all of the said laws...
Página 401 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Página 489 - ... should not have been, the greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved for want of a force which the country was completely able to afford, and of seeing the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity from the same cause.