The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volumen28Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1851 |
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... position by himself , let us now test them by the solemn acts of his government and nation . But first we give one brief extract to establish the actual relation that existed between England and the Mosquito Territory . We quote from a ...
... position by himself , let us now test them by the solemn acts of his government and nation . But first we give one brief extract to establish the actual relation that existed between England and the Mosquito Territory . We quote from a ...
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... positions in Central America as would control the projected canal , awoke the slumbering cupidity of England , and she resolved to employ all her resources and ability to attain her end . A letter was addressed to Mr. Chatfield , Consul ...
... positions in Central America as would control the projected canal , awoke the slumbering cupidity of England , and she resolved to employ all her resources and ability to attain her end . A letter was addressed to Mr. Chatfield , Consul ...
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... position , is painfully indicative that the nature of our confederacy is too little understood by its friends . They see our present danger , and are desirous of averting it ; but they seem moved thereto more by fear of consequences ...
... position , is painfully indicative that the nature of our confederacy is too little understood by its friends . They see our present danger , and are desirous of averting it ; but they seem moved thereto more by fear of consequences ...
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... position . The people of the North cared nothing last winter what terms of compro- mise should be concocted , so long as the terms would restore peace ; and they care nothing now for the respective measures , except as they shall prove ...
... position . The people of the North cared nothing last winter what terms of compro- mise should be concocted , so long as the terms would restore peace ; and they care nothing now for the respective measures , except as they shall prove ...
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... position of the United States has , in forty years , gradually changed in respect of other nations , until she now takes a leading position , holding in her hand that thread of cotton which she has woven around England and western ...
... position of the United States has , in forty years , gradually changed in respect of other nations , until she now takes a leading position , holding in her hand that thread of cotton which she has woven around England and western ...
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Página 16 - 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; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states, as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Página 291 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 291 - Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 16 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Página 252 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 11 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation.
Página 17 - The General Assembly shall, at Its first session under the amended constitution, pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling In this State: and to effectually prevent the owners of slaves from bringing them into this State for the purpose of setting them free.
Página 11 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Página 199 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 168 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!