Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851Little, Brown,, 1852 - 747 páginas |
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... Executive Council , like that which exists under the present Constitution of Massa- chusetts , but was a coördinate and independent branch of the Colonial Legislature . It was composed of twenty - eight mem- bers , a larger number than ...
... Executive Council , like that which exists under the present Constitution of Massa- chusetts , but was a coördinate and independent branch of the Colonial Legislature . It was composed of twenty - eight mem- bers , a larger number than ...
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... executive authorities . Governor Bernard , in his very first speech to the Assembly , gave a clue to his whole political character and course , by allud- ing to the blessings which the Colonies derived " from their subjection to Great ...
... executive authorities . Governor Bernard , in his very first speech to the Assembly , gave a clue to his whole political character and course , by allud- ing to the blessings which the Colonies derived " from their subjection to Great ...
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... not only to act as a branch of the legislative body , but to exercise the supreme executive authority of the province . Bowdoin was elected first on the list , and on the meeting THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF JAMES BOWDOIN . 107.
... not only to act as a branch of the legislative body , but to exercise the supreme executive authority of the province . Bowdoin was elected first on the list , and on the meeting THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF JAMES BOWDOIN . 107.
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... Executive , the Supremacy of the Laws , the Capacity of the People for Self - government , — all , all were at stake . Had " Shays ' Rebellion , " as itis called , been triumphant , it is hardly - possible to exaggerate the danger in ...
... Executive , the Supremacy of the Laws , the Capacity of the People for Self - government , — all , all were at stake . Had " Shays ' Rebellion , " as itis called , been triumphant , it is hardly - possible to exaggerate the danger in ...
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... executive chair . He resolved , however , not to shrink from the canvass , nobly declar- ing , that " his inclination would lead him to retirement , but if it should be thought he could be further serviceable to the Com- monwealth , he ...
... executive chair . He resolved , however , not to shrink from the canvass , nobly declar- ing , that " his inclination would lead him to retirement , but if it should be thought he could be further serviceable to the Com- monwealth , he ...
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Página 555 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 384 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 30 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 474 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 628 - Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Página 696 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 642 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 133 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 78 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 81 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...