Speeches in the Senate of the United States. Miscellaneous speeches. AppendixLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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... Trojan war Greece had accomplished no united and national undertaking , nor had its cities and tribes so much as the common name of Greece . Before the age of Hellen , the son of Deucalion , this designation , Hellas , appears not to ...
... Trojan war Greece had accomplished no united and national undertaking , nor had its cities and tribes so much as the common name of Greece . Before the age of Hellen , the son of Deucalion , this designation , Hellas , appears not to ...
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... Trojan war , in no stage of progress in the ante - Hellenic or post - Hellenic period , effected any great com- mon enterprise , through weakness and the want of alliance and coöperation with each other . And for even that war they were ...
... Trojan war , in no stage of progress in the ante - Hellenic or post - Hellenic period , effected any great com- mon enterprise , through weakness and the want of alliance and coöperation with each other . And for even that war they were ...
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... Troy . 4. I say by the acqui- sition of a superior naval force ; for he appears to have come attended by more ships than ... Trojan war , no united enterprise is undertaken . For that even they were fitted at last only by becoming naval ...
... Troy . 4. I say by the acqui- sition of a superior naval force ; for he appears to have come attended by more ships than ... Trojan war , no united enterprise is undertaken . For that even they were fitted at last only by becoming naval ...
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... Trojan war . And in the eightieth year after the taking of Troy , the Dorians , with the Heracleida , took possession of and held Peloponnesus . 4. So that through a long series of difficulties it was , and after a long time , that ...
... Trojan war . And in the eightieth year after the taking of Troy , the Dorians , with the Heracleida , took possession of and held Peloponnesus . 4. So that through a long series of difficulties it was , and after a long time , that ...
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... Trojan war , contained very few triremes , but were composed mainly of long sharp ships , single banked and of fifty oars , according to the model of the time of the Trojan war . 2. And it was only just before the Persian war and the ...
... Trojan war , contained very few triremes , but were composed mainly of long sharp ships , single banked and of fifty oars , according to the model of the time of the Trojan war . 2. And it was only just before the Persian war and the ...
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Seite 182 - 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.
Seite 390 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Seite 81 - Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies, for the purpose of raising a revenue, by act of Parliament...
Seite 125 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Seite 436 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Seite 32 - ... all cases in which foreigners may be interested; in the construction of any treaty or treaties, or which may arise on any of the acts for the regulation of trade, or the collection of the Federal revenue...
Seite 56 - And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States.
Seite 22 - It will be for that government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation.
Seite 46 - ... The people have declared that, in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire. — for some purposes sovereign, for...
Seite 369 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.