The Rise of American Civilization, Svazek 1Macmillan, 1927 |
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Strana 119
... Quaker in Philadelphia had to heed . And the gesture was quickly answered . George Washington , a young militia officer of Virginia , was sent to the frontier to warn the invaders that they were THE GROWTH OF POWER 119.
... Quaker in Philadelphia had to heed . And the gesture was quickly answered . George Washington , a young militia officer of Virginia , was sent to the frontier to warn the invaders that they were THE GROWTH OF POWER 119.
Strana 141
... Washington , abundant illustrations of this statement can be taken . Washington loved the best of clothes , super- fine scarlet cloth , gold lace , ruffled shirts , and silver buckles . " Whatever goods you may send me , " he wrote to ...
... Washington , abundant illustrations of this statement can be taken . Washington loved the best of clothes , super- fine scarlet cloth , gold lace , ruffled shirts , and silver buckles . " Whatever goods you may send me , " he wrote to ...
Strana 142
... Washington had a passion for horse races and indulged it by contributing to racing purses , entering his own steeds , attending the contests , and betting cautiously on his favorites . He heartily enjoyed games of chance ; in his diary ...
... Washington had a passion for horse races and indulged it by contributing to racing purses , entering his own steeds , attending the contests , and betting cautiously on his favorites . He heartily enjoyed games of chance ; in his diary ...
Strana 233
... Washington , Jefferson , Wythe , Harrison , the Lees from Virginia ; Samuel and John Adams , Gerry and Hancock of Massachusetts ; Franklin and Morris of Pennsylvania ; Read and Rodney of Delaware ; Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott of ...
... Washington , Jefferson , Wythe , Harrison , the Lees from Virginia ; Samuel and John Adams , Gerry and Hancock of Massachusetts ; Franklin and Morris of Pennsylvania ; Read and Rodney of Delaware ; Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott of ...
Strana 235
... Washington recorded that hardly one had put one - eighth of its quota of men at the service of the Revolution . To make matters worse , the Congress itself was beset by the sectional jealousies which divided the states . Every- thing ...
... Washington recorded that hardly one had put one - eighth of its quota of men at the service of the Revolution . To make matters worse , the Congress itself was beset by the sectional jealousies which divided the states . Every- thing ...
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The Rise of American Civilization, Svazek 1 Charles Austin Beard,Mary Ritter Beard Úplné zobrazení - 1927 |
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Strana 92 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Strana 93 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Strana 174 - God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Strana 188 - When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Strana 766 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Strana 334 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results ; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society...
Strana 59 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New England, in America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors should have perpetual succession.
Strana 379 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 557 - But when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages, artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer, and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
Strana 188 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.