Documents of the City of Boston, Volumen4,Temas78-176

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City Council, Printing Section, 1911
 

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Página 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 10 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 1 - ... 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 and obedience.
Página 12 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 16 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century, as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country, by your own institutions.
Página 2 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villany on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Página 15 - I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.
Página 13 - ... the city engineer, six thousand dollars; the water commissioner, five thousand dollars; the superintendent of streets, seven thousand five hundred dollars"; and by inserting the words, "the commissioner of public works, nine thousand dollars, he to receive no other fees or emoluments." SECT. 35. The commissioner may create such divisions of the department as he may find necessary for the proper conduct of the department. Each division of the department created or changed by said commissioner...
Página 2 - British liberty, at a time when we hear the greatest monarch upon earth declaring from his throne that he glories in the name of Briton, and that the privileges of his people are dearer to him than the most valuable prerogatives of his crown; and...
Página 3 - Said commissioner may issue such a permit to competent mechanics for the purpose of entering particular drains into public drains and sewers, on a condition the terms of which shall be those hereinbefore stated in section nine of this ordinance, and in addition that the person applying for the permit shall make connection of the said drain with the said sewer only in the manner shown on the back of said permit, and only in the presence of an inspector of the sewer division; shall have on the ground,...

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