The History of the Seal of the United StatesDepartment of state, 1909 - 72 Seiten |
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affixed alternate red American eagle ANFORD appointed Armorial Atchievement Arthur Lee Azure barways blazoned blue Boudinot C. A. L. Totten Charles Thomson chevrons chief cloud coat of arms colors commission Congress Assembled Congress W. C. Ford constellation Crest cut the reverse denotes Department dexter talon displayed eagle Doric Order eagle's Elias Boudinot emblem emblematical epitaph escutcheon Eye of Providence flag fleur-de-lis glory gress hand heraldic heraldry Jefferson letter LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERS LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERSITY Lovell committee MDCCLXXVI medal ment motto E pluribus obverse and reverse olive branch pales papers pluribus unum President Rebellion to tyrants red and white repre represented in engraving scroll Secretary of Congress shield side signifies Simitière Simitière's Sovereignty STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES suggestion surrounding thirteen stars Sword thirteen arrows thirteen pieces Tiffany & Co Totten treaty Tyrants is Obedience UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD VERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD white and red
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Seite 65 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 36 - ... a chief, azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, "E Pluribus Unum.
Seite 66 - With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men, who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor and often very lousy.
Seite 9 - Jefferson proposed the children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; and on the other side, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.
Seite 10 - Pharaoh sitting in an open chariot, a crown on his head, and a sword in his hand, passing through the divided waters of the Red sea, in pursuit of the Israelites. Rays from a pillar of fire in the...
Seite 67 - The commission being signed, the subsequent duty of the secretary of state is prescribed by law, and not to be guided by the will of the president. He is to affix the seal of the United States to the commission, and is to record it. This is not a proceeding which may be varied, if the judgment of the executive shall suggest one more eligible; but is a precise course accurately marked out by law, and is to be strictly pursued.
Seite 35 - For the CREST. Over the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory, or, breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, forming a constellation, argent, on an azure field. REVERSE. A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith, an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper. Over the eye these words, "Annuit Coeptis." On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI. And underneath the following motto, "Novus Ordo Seclorum.
Seite 42 - The escutcheon is composed of the Chief and pale, the two most honorable ordinaries. The pieces, paly, represent the several States all joined in one solid compact entire, supporting a Chief which unites the whole and represents Congress. The motto alludes to this Union. The pales in the Arms are kept closely united by the Chief and the Chief depends on that union, and the strength resulting from it for its support, to denote the Confederacy of the United States of America, and the preservation of...
Seite 45 - You will be pleased, Sir, to deliver the books, records, and papers of the late Congress, the great seal of the federal Union, and the seal of the admiralty, to Mr. Roger Alden, the late deputy secretary of Congress, who is requested to take charge of them until farther directions shall be given.
Seite 34 - Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules, a chief azure. The escutcheon on the breast of the American bald eagle, displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch and in his sinister, a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed...