Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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... give to the needs of historical investigators . Indeed , these are not the functions of the State Department . At Ottawa , however , Canada has a department of archives ; it is an excellent one , and under the charge of a most competent ...
... give to the needs of historical investigators . Indeed , these are not the functions of the State Department . At Ottawa , however , Canada has a department of archives ; it is an excellent one , and under the charge of a most competent ...
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... give us some idea of the progress of the nation in letters , in art , in science , in economic development , in religion , in all that makes up what we call civilization . They have attempted to give us a vivid and accurate conception ...
... give us some idea of the progress of the nation in letters , in art , in science , in economic development , in religion , in all that makes up what we call civilization . They have attempted to give us a vivid and accurate conception ...
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... gives a good succinct summary of the treaties , is silent about the men who made them . One might suppose that Gindely's Thirty Years ' War would at least have had a closing chapter on the treaties . But it has not a word , though the ...
... gives a good succinct summary of the treaties , is silent about the men who made them . One might suppose that Gindely's Thirty Years ' War would at least have had a closing chapter on the treaties . But it has not a word , though the ...
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... gives some of the names , but not all ; and does not dwell on the merits of the men he does name . Lecky says he omits any detailed account of the treaty of Utrecht because it is fully described elsewhere , as , in fact , it is in ...
... gives some of the names , but not all ; and does not dwell on the merits of the men he does name . Lecky says he omits any detailed account of the treaty of Utrecht because it is fully described elsewhere , as , in fact , it is in ...
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... give the children little or no information concerning the diplomatic labors of the men who , by their skill , helped win in Europe those victories in the council chamber which were as influential in securing our independ- ence as the ...
... give the children little or no information concerning the diplomatic labors of the men who , by their skill , helped win in Europe those victories in the council chamber which were as influential in securing our independ- ence as the ...
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Страница 198 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.
Страница 299 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Страница 253 - That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.
Страница 233 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Страница 173 - The constitution and the laws of their predecessors are extinguished then, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.
Страница 222 - The people would occupy without grants. They have already so occupied in many places. You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
Страница 171 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community...
Страница 205 - The United States lies like a huge page in the history of society. Line by line as we read this continental page from West to East we find the record of social evolution. It begins with the Indian and the hunter; it goes on to tell of the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader, the pathfinder of civilization; we read the annals of the pastoral stage in ranch life; the exploitation of the soil by the raising of unrotated crops of corn and wheat in sparsely settled farming communities;...
Страница 313 - The governor shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the colony, their lands or commodities, other way than by the authority of the general assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said assembly shall appoynt.
Страница 183 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.