The Rise of American Civilization, Svazek 1Macmillan, 1927 |
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... important material benefits from it . " In this simple flash is revealed the powerful passion that drove the armies of the Republic beyond the borders of Italy and at length in many centuries of almost ceaseless aggression extended the ...
... important material benefits from it . " In this simple flash is revealed the powerful passion that drove the armies of the Republic beyond the borders of Italy and at length in many centuries of almost ceaseless aggression extended the ...
Strana 22
... the beginnings of a self - governing common- wealth , Massachusetts , in New England . In the second of these important groups , the yeomanry , were free and proud owners of small farms , noted 22 THE RISE OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.
... the beginnings of a self - governing common- wealth , Massachusetts , in New England . In the second of these important groups , the yeomanry , were free and proud owners of small farms , noted 22 THE RISE OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.
Strana 26
... importance , especially after the guild system com- menced to disintegrate . For instance , toward the close of the seventeenth century , when woolen goods formed in value one - third the total export trade of England , there were eight ...
... importance , especially after the guild system com- menced to disintegrate . For instance , toward the close of the seventeenth century , when woolen goods formed in value one - third the total export trade of England , there were eight ...
Strana 27
... important for colonization were the skill and strength of women in agriculture . Old treatises on farming and schedules of wages fixed by justices of the peace tell impressive stories of their toiling in the fields , raking hay ...
... important for colonization were the skill and strength of women in agriculture . Old treatises on farming and schedules of wages fixed by justices of the peace tell impressive stories of their toiling in the fields , raking hay ...
Strana 34
... important interests of his age , he was fascinated by the multiplying tales of exploration and dis- covery . Humble geographers were among his friends . The sea dogs , Drake , Hawkins , and Frobisher , had respect for him ; he was of ...
... important interests of his age , he was fascinated by the multiplying tales of exploration and dis- covery . Humble geographers were among his friends . The sea dogs , Drake , Hawkins , and Frobisher , had respect for him ; he was of ...
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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.