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... “THEY WILL LAST MY TIME.” Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be re member... ...he argument, and inquire into some of the many material injuries which these colonies sustain, and always will sustain, by be ing connected with, and... ... i. e. that Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and so on for the rest, are sister colonies by the way of England; this is certainly a very round about way ... ...d by France. Much hath been said of the united strength of Brit ain and the colonies, that in conjunction they might bid defiance to the world. But t... ...hirst for arbitrary power; is he, or is he not, a proper man to say to these colonies, “YOU SHALL MAKE NO LAWS BUT WHAT I PLEASE.’ And is there any in... ...ing method. When the delegates are met, let a colony be taken from the whole thirteen colo nies by lot, after which, let the whole Congress choose (b... ...sident was taken in the former Congress, and so proceeding on till the whole thirteen shall have had their proper rotation. And in order that nothing ...

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...now thought fit to speak of the progress that was made in settling several colonies. The settlement of Plymouth, in 1620, has already been mentioned. ... ... settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch,... ...emselves, almost spontaneously, in Massachusetts and the other New England colonies. Democracies were the natural growth of the New World. As to Massa... ...f lands from the Indians. A very memo rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a ... ... mutual defence against their enemies. They called them selves the United Colonies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of the Un... ... of July, 1776, Congress had signed the Declara tion of Independence. The thirteen colonies were now free and independent States. Dark as our prospec...

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...l declaration in the act announcing to the world the indepen- dence of the thirteen American colonies, that men are created equal. Now, as an abstract... ...he act announcing to the world the indepen- dence of the thirteen American colonies, that men are created equal. Now, as an abstract principle, there ... ...l declaration in the act announcing to the world the inde- pendence of the thirteen American colonies, that all men are created equal. Now, as an abst... ...he act announcing to the world the inde- pendence of the thirteen American colonies, that all men are created equal. Now, as an abstract principle, th... ...atever may be the extent of its import, was made by the delegations of the thirteen States. In most of them slavery existed, and had long existed, and... ...isted, and was estab- lished by law. It was introduced and forced upon the colonies by the paramount law of England. Do you believe that in mak- ing t... ...be interpreted into an abolition of slavery among them? Did any one of the thirteen colonies entertain such a design or expecta- tion? To impute such ... ...reted into an abolition of slavery among them? Did any one of the thirteen colonies entertain such a design or expecta- tion? To impute such a secret ...

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...elonging to the highest state policy, as the Roman method of colonization. Colonies were, in effect, the great engine of Roman conquest; and the follo... ...bunis deducebantur.” Tacitus also notices this organiza- tion of the early colonies, and adds the reason of it, and its happy effect, when contrasting... ...e only hopeful and general way for making a fortune. Fourthly, by means of colonies it was that Rome delivered herself from her surplus population. Pr... ...f each gen- eration outnumbered those of the generation preceding. But the colonies provided outlets for these continual accessions of people, and abs... ... it the vital resources of her martial aggrandizement. For, Fifthly, these colonies were in two ways made the corner-stones of her martial policy: 1st... ...f it should unfortunately happen, that the palace of the Vatican, with its thirteen thousand* chambers, were to take fire—for a considerable space of... ...f the coming storm had been felt far to the south of Rome. One long wave *“Thirteen thousand chambers.”—The number of the cham- bers in this prodigiou...

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...ast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colonies. He had seen that these revolutions were accomplished almost witho... ...advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might be purchased; it was conferred for the first time in 12... ...e Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South A... ...ndustry were made. The tongue of arid land was the cradle of those English colonies which were destined one day to become the United States of America... ...e Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South A... ... made at differ- ent times since 1789, the most important of which are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth, framed and ratified after the Civil ... ...mulgation of the new Constitution. History Of The Federal Constitution The thirteen colonies which simultaneously threw off the yoke of England toward... ...n Constitution was formed. Take, for instance, the two following examples. Thirteen supreme courts of justice existed in France, which, generally spea... ...of the nation. When the Federal Constitution was formed there were already thirteen courts of justice in the United States which decided causes withou...

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...t uni- form of the corps of Fencibles to which he belonged; around it were thirteen locks of hair, belonging to a baker’s dozen of sisters that the ol... ...emed to the fanciful view like a great fat red round of beef surrounded by thirteen carrots. These were dished up on 4 The History of Samuel Titmarsh... ...the sake of you, who gave it me; and it will recall to me my uncle, and my thirteen aunts in Ireland.” “I don’t want you to wear it in that way!” shri... ...le made pretty fortunes. I was at this period, as the truth must be known, thirteenth clerk of twenty-four young gents who did the immense business of... ...h me in the year ’84, when I had just lost your poor dear grandpapa. These thirteen sthreamers of red hair represent his thirteen celebrated sisters,—... ...or not have her at all. Whereupon Captain Fizgig got an appointment in the colonies, and Miss Brough became more ill-humoured than ever. But I could n...

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...ther getting through or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the m... ...The total population of Bocking and Braintree is probably little more than thirteen thousand souls altogether, but for that there are two water suppli... ... German right to “expansion,” and babble about a return of her justly lost colonies. That seems to me not pacificism but patriotic inversion. This lar... ...kin to that of the “home country.” These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garriso... ...Great Britain. There is a tendency in all the 130 What Is Coming? British colonies to read American books and periodicals rather than British, if for... ...the ordinary British citizen will only too gladly see the conquered German colonies incorporated. The Italians have a parallel field of development in... ...tem of irrigation that was destroyed by the Mongol armies of Hulugu in the thirteenth century will be restored; the desert will again become populous....

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...a, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they afterward became; but when Washington was to be... ...d not succeed under it. Then in lieu of that, by the united consent of the thirteen States, the present Con- stitution was drawn up and sanctioned, an... ...land has been seeking to do any time since her subjection; as the revolted colonies of Great Britain suc- ceeded in doing in 1776, whereby they create... ...is, I presume, universally known that the citizens of the Western American colonies of Great Britain which re- volted, declared themselves to be free ... ...is was done on the 4th of July, 1776, and was signed by delegates from the thirteen colonies, or States as they then called themselves. These delegate... ...ne on the 4th of July, 1776, and was signed by delegates from the thirteen colonies, or States as they then called themselves. These delegates in this... ...lieve that they are richer than any other States. They return between them thirteen Representatives, Rhode Island sending two and Massachusetts eleven... ... nated as its candidate by the republican party, the names of no less than thirteen candidates were submitted to the delegates who were sent to a conv... ...small. A President and his clerks may have suf- ficed when there were from thirteen to eighteen States; while there were no Territories, or none at le...

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...he several im- provements, plantings, and management of the several little colonies, the two men had so far out-gone the three, that there was no comp... ... and do the like for them; so that when I came to see the two Englishmen’s colonies, they looked at a distance as if they all lived like bees in a hiv... ...eir habitation to the same place; and so the island was divided into three colonies, and no more – viz. the Spaniards, with old Friday and the first s... ... nor can I stay upon demurrage above eight days more, and I have been here thirteen already; so that I am perfectly unable to engage in this work unle... ...such a fright and hurry never were seen among such a multitude; there were thirteen or fourteen of their canoes split and overset in all, and the men ... ...boatswain and two more had poleaxes; besides all which they had among them thirteen hand grenadoes. Bolder fellows, and better pro- vided, never went ... ...great disappointment, for there were not 143 Daniel Defoe above twelve or thirteen houses, and where the town was, or how big, they knew not. They co... ...t not knowing what exigence we might be in, he took another boat, and with thirteen men and himself came ashore to me. He was surprised to see me and ...

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... down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous. He rose at thirteen minutes to 11 Jules Verne one, and directed his steps towards the... ...will she stop at Suez?” “Four hours; long enough to get in her coal. It is thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the R... ...board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would not be... ...HE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow th... ...voyage, and his partner and himself having, by a bold stroke, captured all thirteen of the tricks, concluded this fine campaign with a brilliant victo... ...y-furred tigers in the world, were lost to view. Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little Engl...

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... for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hun- dred thousand strong. W e did this under the single impulse o... ...ns. In what do our new Territories now differ in this respect from the old Colonies when slavery was first planted within them? It was planted, as Mr.... ...Government refusing to prohibit it, and withholding from the people of the Colonies the authority to prohibit it for themselves. Mr. Clay says this wa... ...one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution a... ...ny difference between the policy which originally planted slavery in these Colonies and that policy which now prevails in our new Territories. If it d...

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...hop that was condemned to remain in the window, or to be packed off to the colonies, Granville was certain to see it on his wife’s head; if a material... ...e A Daughter of Eve Cousin Pons Granville, Comtesse Angelique de The Thirteen A Daughter of Eve Granville, Vicomte de A Daughter of Eve Th...

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...de Langeais. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The Thirteen. THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES ONE OF THOSE SIGHTS in which most h... ...young Creole woman of the Antilles, and with all the ruinous tastes of the Colonies, but fortunately married to an old and extremely rich Spanish nobl... ...e Langeais. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The Thirteen. The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man C...

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...e active having not less than thirty-five derivative forms and the passive thirteen. The “noun of action,”—infinitive with article (to akonein) of the... ...t home. But we must not, even taking this view, send our refuse men to the colonies. Newly forming societ- ies must be moulded by men of energy, and p... ...teson encircling ring, over which the Bishop and Patteson waded, and found thirteen men on the beach. Patteson went up to the first, tied a bit of red... ...re, or otherwise employed, which of course made up eight or ten out of the thirteen hours of daylight. When I went ashore (which I did when- ever the ... ...bour, where there was no safe anchorage, and this disappointed the people. Thirteen, indeed, slept on board, and the next morning sixty canoes surroun... ... and conver- sant with the habits and customs of French and English in the colonies; moreover, with plenty of firmness in putting forward his cause. H... ...ve of all ages from nine to perhaps twenty- seven or eight, from twelve or thirteen islands, speaking at least eight languages, than half the number o... ...d more plain and homely in speech and act is our life in 239 Yo n g e the colonies—e.g., you meet me carrying six or seven loaves from town to the co... ...ut with the notion that England and English clergymen were born to set the colonies right. ‘How few would say, “There’s a young man for the Bishop, on...

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... 97 H G Wells “Well—guess,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. “You come from one of the colonies?” “Dear me!” said Mr. Hoopdriver, veering round to the new wind. “... ...rked, in a flash of sexual pride, “a man is freer than a woman. End in the Colonies, y’know, there isn’t half the Conventionality you find in society ... ...coins, counted them with his left index finger, and held them out to her. “Thirteen four half,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. “Ev- ery penny.” “I have half a s... ...k, is more refreshing and stimulating.” “There’s a train from Lyndhurst at thirteen minutes to six,” said Widgery, unfolding a time table. “That gives...

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...cover that judge Douglas himself says a controversy between the Ameri- can Colonies and the Government of Great Britain began on the slavery question ... ...t subsequent to the Revolution, regarded the people of the Territories and Colonies as politi- cal communities which were entitled to a free and exclu... ...cuments of the Revolutionary times, tending to show that the people of the colonies were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, t... ...r the consideration of the Republican mem- bers of the Senate Committee of Thirteen. TO D. HUNTER. (Confidential.) SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS December 22, ... ...rly history. In the Revolutionary struggle few of the States among the Old Thirteen had more of the battle-fields of the country within their limits t... ...federacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the 188 The Writings o... ...ndependence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual,... ...he old ones in and by the Declaration of Independence. Therein the “United Colonies” were declared to be “free and independent States”; but even then ... ...antly show. The express plighting of faith by each and all of the original thirteen in the Articles of Confederation, two years later, that the Union ...

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...eon met with a Minister of War, Aubry by name, who all but sent him to the colonies. “Feel your pulse. Think whether you can get up morning after morn... ...Father Goriot, in an agony of jealousy and desperation. “Why, I have still thirteen hundred livres a year! Mon Dieu! Poor little girl! why did she not... ...ortune. Well and good. I sold out my property in the funds that brought in thirteen hundred and fifty livres a year, and bought a safe annuity of twel... ...eant’s butler) The Deserted Woman Langeais, Duchesse Antoinette de The Thirteen 252 Father Goriot Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscio... ...(de Restaud’s valet) Gobseck Montriveau, General Marquis Armand de The Thirteen Lost Illusions A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Another S... ... The Unconscious Humorists 253 Balzac Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de The Thirteen Eugenie Grandet Cesar Birotteau Melmoth Reconciled Lost Il...

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... happens, very fortunately for the world, that a century and a quarter ago thirteen various and very jealous states worked out the problem of a Union,... ... The 42 In the Fourth Year manifest solution of the problem of the German colonies in Africa is neither to return them to her nor deprive her of them...

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..., that would have yielded, at the rate of three and a half miles per hour, thirteen plus one third miles. But only two and a half hours were given to ... ...he world, and perhaps bearing fruit. This is past all denial, since, about thirteen or fourteen years ago, I 57 Thomas de Quincey read in some journa... ...ht to have entered upon my triennium of school-boy servitude at the age of thirteen. As things were,—a delay with which I had nothing to do myself,—th... ...e special fraud (as, for instance, that of yesterday morning, amounting to thirteen pence upon a single letter) to that equitable penalty which I am e... ...I could plead by dozens, in the course of a few years, though no more than thirteen pence, yet multiplied into seventy million times two hundred and f... ...arate grounds equally interesting to us all, as the mightiest of En- glish colonies, and the superbest monument of demoniac English energy , revealing... ...o Delphi must often have been peculiarly inconve- nient to the founders of colonies moving westwards from Greece; and the expenses of such a journey, ... ...r, would suggest this sanction as a necessity, under the following reason:—colonies the most enviably prosperous upon the whole, have yet had many har... ...pected marriages, state-treaties, sales, purchases, found- ing of towns or colonies, &c., which demanded no faculty whatever of divination, but the no...

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...de of glass, (for glass mirrors cannot be shown to have existed before the thirteenth cen- tury,) but of polished metals; and amongst these, silver wa... ...ribe of Wallachian shepherds, descended (it is sup- posed) from the Dacian colonies, Romans intermingled with natives, founded by the later Caesars; t... ...me Two the traveller passing along the public track; and when the pastoral colonies, as is often the case, occur at frequent inter- vals, the nuisance... ...s a matter of some moment for Homeric disputes—were these habits of Ionian colonies, or exclusively of Greece Proper? But enough of the repulsive feat... ...nt of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at the closing battle of Plataea, fought against the Lieutena...