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... Laws , proclamations , and other public documents are sources of great value , because they not only describe , but constitute the event : they bear the signatures , the affixing of which gives them validity ; they are drawn up even ...
... Laws , proclamations , and other public documents are sources of great value , because they not only describe , but constitute the event : they bear the signatures , the affixing of which gives them validity ; they are drawn up even ...
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... laws , with exact titles , may be found below ( No. 6 ) and in Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , § 29 . Hardly any state has made up a full set of its own statutes ; the best collections are Hening's Statutes for Virginia ...
... laws , with exact titles , may be found below ( No. 6 ) and in Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , § 29 . Hardly any state has made up a full set of its own statutes ; the best collections are Hening's Statutes for Virginia ...
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... Laws of the United States . 2 parts . Wash- ington , 1877.- A much - needed reprint is in preparation ( 1897 ) . Winthrop Sargent , editor , The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution . Philadelphia , 1857 . William L. Saunders , editor ...
... Laws of the United States . 2 parts . Wash- ington , 1877.- A much - needed reprint is in preparation ( 1897 ) . Winthrop Sargent , editor , The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution . Philadelphia , 1857 . William L. Saunders , editor ...
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... laws , collections , and histories containing documents as the most available library may be willing to buy ( see lists in Channing and Hart , Guide , §§ 23. 29 , 95-130 ) , especially those of that colony which has the closest relation ...
... laws , collections , and histories containing documents as the most available library may be willing to buy ( see lists in Channing and Hart , Guide , §§ 23. 29 , 95-130 ) , especially those of that colony which has the closest relation ...
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... Laws of Virginia [ 1619-1792 ] . ( Compiled by William Waller Hening . ) 13 vols . Phila- delphia and New York , 1823. - Perhaps the most important set of colonial statutes printed . Worcester , Mass . , The Records of Worcester ...
... Laws of Virginia [ 1619-1792 ] . ( Compiled by William Waller Hening . ) 13 vols . Phila- delphia and New York , 1823. - Perhaps the most important set of colonial statutes printed . Worcester , Mass . , The Records of Worcester ...
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Page 263 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 625 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping.
Page 232 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 155 - Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
Page 401 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Page 465 - The winds ceased to murmur; the thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along, And a voice as of angels, enchantingly sung: " Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies.
Page 116 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, or the stone of Help *, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
Page 156 - New-York for our approbation or disallowance of the same as also duplicates thereof by the next conveyance and in case any or all of the said laws...
Page 401 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Page 489 - ... should not have been, the greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved for want of a force which the country was completely able to afford, and of seeing the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity from the same cause.