Memoir of the Life of John Quincy AdamsPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 429 páginas This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. |
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... SENATE OF MASSACHUSETTS --- TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . -HIS COURSE RELATIVE TO THE ATTACK OF THE LEOPARD ON THE CHESAPEAKE . RESIGNS HIS SEAT AS SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES . APPOINTED MINISTER ΤΟ RUSSIA . FINAL SEPARATION ...
... SENATE OF MASSACHUSETTS --- TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . -HIS COURSE RELATIVE TO THE ATTACK OF THE LEOPARD ON THE CHESAPEAKE . RESIGNS HIS SEAT AS SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES . APPOINTED MINISTER ΤΟ RUSSIA . FINAL SEPARATION ...
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... SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES DEFENDED . -INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE . CONTESTS OF PARTIES.— ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES , 120 CHAPTER VII . TO ADMINISTRATION AS PRESIDENT.- POLICY . -RECOMMENDATIONS CONGRESS . PRINCIPLES RELATIVE ...
... SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES DEFENDED . -INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE . CONTESTS OF PARTIES.— ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES , 120 CHAPTER VII . TO ADMINISTRATION AS PRESIDENT.- POLICY . -RECOMMENDATIONS CONGRESS . PRINCIPLES RELATIVE ...
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... Senate was pleased to concur , I was selected for a station , not , perhaps , of more usefulness , but of greater consequence in the estimation of mankind , and sent from home on a mission to foreign parts . From that time , the fourth ...
... Senate was pleased to concur , I was selected for a station , not , perhaps , of more usefulness , but of greater consequence in the estimation of mankind , and sent from home on a mission to foreign parts . From that time , the fourth ...
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... Senate , in June , 1794. At the request of the Secretary of State , he immediately repaired to Philadelphia . His commission was delivered to him on the 11th of July , the day he entered his twenty - eighth year . He embarked in ...
... Senate , in June , 1794. At the request of the Secretary of State , he immediately repaired to Philadelphia . His commission was delivered to him on the 11th of July , the day he entered his twenty - eighth year . He embarked in ...
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... Senate of the United States . The object of his mission being fulfilled , Mr. Adams immediately wrote to his father that he should , at any time , acqui- esce in his recall . While waiting for the decision of his government , he ...
... Senate of the United States . The object of his mission being fulfilled , Mr. Adams immediately wrote to his father that he should , at any time , acqui- esce in his recall . While waiting for the decision of his government , he ...
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Página 392 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 392 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 392 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Página 29 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Página 272 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 2 - The fact, recorded by my father at the time, has connected with that portion of my name, a charm of mingled sensibility and devotion. It was filial tenderness that gave the name. It was the name of one passing from earth to immortality. These have been among the strongest links of my attachment to the name of Quincy, and have been to me, through life, a perpetual admonition to do nothing unworthy of it.
Página 103 - Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union; but if it should, the South would, from necessity, be compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if that would not be returning to the old colonial state. Calhoun said, " Yes, pretty much ; but it would be forced upon them.
Página 299 - and we may possibly discover some way by which we can get along, without the aid of his all-powerful talent, learning and genius. If we cannot organize in any other way — if this Clerk of yours will not consent to our discharging the trusts confided to us by our constituents, then let us imitate the example of the Virginia House of Burgesses, which, when the colonial Governor Dinwiddie ordered it to disperse, refused to obey the imperious and insulting mandate, and, like men...
Página 392 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Página 142 - Adams proceeded to form his cabinet by nominating Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Secretary of State; Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury; James Barbour, of Virginia, Secretary of War; Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, and Wm.