A Political and Civil History of the United States of America: From the Year 1763 to the Close of the Administration of President Washington, in March, 1797: Including a Summary View of the Political and Civil State of the North American Colonies, Prior to that Period, Том 1H. Howe and Durrie & Peck, 1828 - 528 страница |
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... vessels and persons made liable to seizure - Royal commissioners appointed - Their powers -- Reprisals ordered by congress - American ports opened to all the world except Great Britain -- Congress recommend to the colonies to form ...
... vessels and persons made liable to seizure - Royal commissioners appointed - Their powers -- Reprisals ordered by congress - American ports opened to all the world except Great Britain -- Congress recommend to the colonies to form ...
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... vessels at different times , to make discoveries in the same quarter . Under the direction of Francis I. an enterprising and ambitious prince , John Verazzano , a Florentine , sailed along the American coast , from latitude 50 ° to 28 ...
... vessels at different times , to make discoveries in the same quarter . Under the direction of Francis I. an enterprising and ambitious prince , John Verazzano , a Florentine , sailed along the American coast , from latitude 50 ° to 28 ...
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... vessel , they had built with great difficulty , and were taken up by an English ship so entirely destitute , that they had devoured one of their crew , who had voluntarily offered him- self a victim , to save the rest . A new colony was ...
... vessel , they had built with great difficulty , and were taken up by an English ship so entirely destitute , that they had devoured one of their crew , who had voluntarily offered him- self a victim , to save the rest . A new colony was ...
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... vessel in which Sir Hum- phry sailed , foundered in a storm , and all on board perished . The second attempt was made by the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh , in consequence of a patent granted him by the Queen , in March , 1584 , " for ...
... vessel in which Sir Hum- phry sailed , foundered in a storm , and all on board perished . The second attempt was made by the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh , in consequence of a patent granted him by the Queen , in March , 1584 , " for ...
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... vessels of all had been secured . Against this conduct of Massachusetts the commis- sioners of the other colonies at their next meeting , remonstrated ; but as the fort at Saybrook about that time was destroyed by fire , the duties ...
... vessels of all had been secured . Against this conduct of Massachusetts the commis- sioners of the other colonies at their next meeting , remonstrated ; but as the fort at Saybrook about that time was destroyed by fire , the duties ...
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Страница 200 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Страница 457 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Страница 35 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Страница 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Страница 369 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Страница 210 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Страница 176 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by King James the First, the Colonists aforesaid are declared entitled to all liberties, privileges, and immunities of denizens and natural subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Страница 288 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without...
Страница 425 - Whereas, we all came into these parts of America, with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace...
Страница 287 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.