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... honor of ornithology . ” The price of his great work , " The Birds of America , " was $ 1000 . Every object in it is of the size of life . " Audubon has indisputable claims to a respectable rank as a man of letters . Some of his written ...
... honor of ornithology . ” The price of his great work , " The Birds of America , " was $ 1000 . Every object in it is of the size of life . " Audubon has indisputable claims to a respectable rank as a man of letters . Some of his written ...
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... honor at Yale College , in 1778. He was at first a school - teacher at Goshen , in New York , and while thus engaged , compiled his " Spelling Book , " which he published at Hartford in 1783. He soon afterward published an " English ...
... honor at Yale College , in 1778. He was at first a school - teacher at Goshen , in New York , and while thus engaged , compiled his " Spelling Book , " which he published at Hartford in 1783. He soon afterward published an " English ...
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... honor of the discovery belongs to Wales . Again , we have the tradition of Irishmen having found a beautiful country far to the west of their island , in which they lived for a long time . These are not the only claims that have been ...
... honor of the discovery belongs to Wales . Again , we have the tradition of Irishmen having found a beautiful country far to the west of their island , in which they lived for a long time . These are not the only claims that have been ...
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... honor of the glorious event . 21. The admiral was too desirous of presenting himself before the sovereigns to protract his stay long at Palos . He took with him on his journey specimens of the products of the newly - discovered regions ...
... honor of the glorious event . 21. The admiral was too desirous of presenting himself before the sovereigns to protract his stay long at Palos . He took with him on his journey specimens of the products of the newly - discovered regions ...
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... honor was reserved for Amerigo Vespucci ( ah - mā - re ' - go ves - poot ' - che ) , an Italian navigator . Seven years after Columbus had made his discovery Vespucci visited the coast of South America ( in 1499 ) , and two years later ...
... honor was reserved for Amerigo Vespucci ( ah - mā - re ' - go ves - poot ' - che ) , an Italian navigator . Seven years after Columbus had made his discovery Vespucci visited the coast of South America ( in 1499 ) , and two years later ...
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Página 340 - NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...
Página 339 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 175 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you : I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 252 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 189 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Página 138 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
Página 272 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Página 140 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Página 182 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Página 9 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State.