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...s many among us still, though erroneously, believe that it has ruined, our colonies,— we should have lent a hand to setting up, in one of the most com... ...d wrong which England committed in opposing the original separation of the thirteen colonies. This is carrying the doctrine of the sacred right of ins... ...hich England committed in opposing the original separation of the thirteen colonies. This is carrying the doctrine of the sacred right of insurrection...

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...and there, an Englishman who now regrets the loss of the revolted American colonies; who now thinks that civiliza- tion was retarded and the world inj... ...Spain in 1763. Spain coveted it—not that she might fill it with prosperous colonies and rising States, but that it might stretch as a broad waste barr... ...e other five. To me, I confess this North- ern division of our once-unruly colonies is, and always has been, the dearest. I am no Puritan myself, and ... ...merce as they have risen, had they still remained at- tached to England as colonies. If this be so, that privilege of self-rule which they have acquir... ...one tube, as is that over the Menai Straits, but is divided into, I think, thirteen tubes. To the eye there appear to be twenty-five tubes; but each o... ...ng-enforced moderation. The wages I found to be very various, running from thirteen or fourteen dollars a month to twenty-eight or thirty, according t... ... as remunerative. The total capital invested by the twelve corporations is thirteen million and a half of dollars, or about two million seven hundred ... ... 308 North America V ol. 1 judgment of the separate States. In most of the thirteen original States provision is made in the written constitu- tion fo... ... the legisla- ture had to pay for its rashness. On the 13th of Septem- ber thirteen of its members were arrested, as were also two editors of newspape...

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... in the private circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we... ... and punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies. Becaus... ... same manner,— whereas, adjudications on the same points and questions, in thirteen States, or in three or four confederacies, will not al- ways accor... ...o one corps, and thereby ren- der them more efficient than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies. What would t... ...ignificance. Apply these facts to our own case. Leave America divided into thirteen or, if you please, into three or four independent governments—what... ...at of an insulated situa- tion. Europe is at a great distance from us. Her colonies in our vicinity will be likely to continue too much disproportione... ...ation and the foundation of their naval strength. Those of them which have colonies in America look forward to what this country is capable of be- com... ...ain. On the other side, and extending to meet the British settlements, are colonies and establishments subject to the dominion of Spain. This situatio... ... right, on her joining in the measures of the United States; and the other colonies, by which were evidently meant the other Brit- ish colonies, at th...

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...d be improvements on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missi... ...hio, Wis- consin, and Iowa. Now I suppose it will not be denied that these thirteen States are a little more interested in improve- ments on that grea... ...w States, as she used to be? The New England States, New York, and the Old Thirteen were all rather quiet upon the sub- ject; and it was seen just now... ... On the fourth day of July, 1776, the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a por- tion of the Atlantic coast of ... ...g,—of undistinguished parents and in an ob- scure district of one of those colonies Henry Clay was born. The infant nation and the infant child began ... ...e by their opinions. He shows us that when it was in contemplation for the colonies to break off from Great Britain, and set up a new government for t... ...e the King of England made a small profit on every slave im- ported to the colonies. The later British criticism of the 174 The Writings of Abraham L... ...- laration unanimously resolved “that no slave be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies.” [Great applause.] On the second day of July, 177... ...y, Judge Curtis, in his dissenting opinion, shows that in five of the then thirteen States—to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,...

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...m him with the greatest difficulty. The other and better course is to send colonies to one or two places, which may be as keys to that state, for it i... ...re a great number of cavalry and infantry. A prince does not spend much on colonies, for with little or no expense he can send them out and keep them ... ...s it has to those who have been despoiled. In conclusion, I say that these colonies are not costly, they are more faith- ful, they injure less, and th... ...countries which they annexed, ob- served closely these measures; they sent colonies and maintained friendly relations with* the minor powers, without ... ...ught in a foreign power, he did not settle in the country, he did not send colonies. Which errors, had he lived, were not enough to injure him had he ... ...ary for that purpose. About this time Messer Francesco died, leaving a son thirteen years of age named Pagolo, and having appointed Castruccio to be h...

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...we had been engaged had also been concluded. The war be tween Spain and the colonies in South America, which had commenced many years before, was the... ... of the parties, the length of time, and successful opposi tion made by the colonies, and of all other circumstances on which it ought to depend, was... ...and the negotiation now depending, invited by the Cortes and accepted by the colonies, it may be pre sumed, that their differences will be settled on... ... sumed, that their differences will be settled on the terms proposed by the colonies. Should the war be continued, the United States, regarding its o... ...ious. Since the Union was formed the number of the States has increased from thirteen to twenty eight; two INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF TH... ...opulation were con fined to the comparatively narrow limits of the original thirteen States than it is now that they are sparsely settled over a more... ... Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetua... ...the extreme limits of the country made easier than it was throughout the old thirteen States at the begin ning of our national existence. INAUGURAL A... ...he con trast which thirty eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of libert...

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...he English got it for themselves; but the English have had England now for thirteen hundred years, and we cannot doubt they will keep it as long as th... ...e hand, and Frenchmen, on the other, had made those new homes that we call colonies. In North America, both English and French had large settlements; ... ... after George III. came to the crown, a great war broke out in the English colonies in America. A new tax had been made. A tax means the money that ha... ...Zealand, making, in all these distant places, the new English homes called colonies; and thus there have come to be En- glish people wherever the sun ...

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...n South America I collected altogether twenty-seven spe- cies of mice, and thirteen more are known from the works of Azara and other authors. Those co... ... The num- ber of inhabitants does not exceed a few hundreds. These Spanish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the element... ...w bank. They were associated with twenty-three species of shells, of which thirteen are recent and four others very closely related to recent forms.* ... ...l the greater number of the wild animals. One of the men had already found thirteen deer (Cervus campestris) lying dead, and I saw their fresh hides; ... ...ges were sinuous from the undulations of the surface. The ship, which drew thirteen feet of water, passed over, with- out disturbing these patches. Th... ...ave extended even so far a its base, if, as the Gauchos informed me, small colonies ha not been carried there. I should not have supposed tha these an... ... four feet six inches in girth, and sev- eral of the beech were as much as thirteen feet. Cap- tain King also mentions a beech which was seven feet in... ...s generally been paid to the fortifications, the means of defence in these colonies appeared very contemptible. Comparing the town with Sydney, I was ... ...n hemi- sphere. It is impossible for an Englishman to behold these distant colonies, without a high pride and sat- isfaction. To hoist the British fla...

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...; I have slept beneath the golden olive of Melkarth, patron of the T yrian colonies; I have pushed open the doors of Baal-Khamon, the enlightener and ... ...eet with walls. Utica and Hippo-Zarytus refused their alliance. Phoenician colonies like Carthage, they were self-governing, and always had clauses in... ...ting T anith with a horse beneath a palm-tree, mingled with those from the colonies, which were marked with a bull, star, globe, or crescent. Then the... ...ther perpendicular ones which in Chanaanitish figures expressed the number thirteen. Then he counted as far as the thirteenth of the brass plates and ... ...s, but as a fugitive he dared not undertake it. T welve men from the Greek colonies embarked at Annaba in a sloop belonging to the Numidians. Then the... ...tly heavy that the beams broke, and the attack was delayed. At last on the thirteenth day of the month of Schabar,—at sunrise,—a great blow was heard ... ...the Zuaeces went away . It was known that they numbered scarcely more than thirteen hundred men, and there was no need to employ soldiers to put an en...

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...ild for adequate food, clothing, and care for at least the first twelve or thirteen years of life, and in the event of parental default to invest the ... ... of the home-staying English. In America, just as in Great Britain and her Colonies, there is the same limitation and the same disuse. Partly, of cour... ...stuff which happily no mind can retain. Little girls and boys of twelve or thirteen, who cannot un- derstand, and never will understand anything but t... ...gination, Colchester: Benham & Co.) to use the words “one-ten,” “two-ten,” thirteen, fourteen, etc., for the second decade in counting. Her proposal i... ... sect, no periodical, no teacher either in Great Britain or America or the Colonies, to hint at a proposal to abolish the aristocratic and monarchical... ... of a second phase in the educational pro- cess beginning about the age of thirteen to sixteen and going on to nineteen and twenty. In Great Britain s...

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...th made him heir to the estate, but his life was a very frail one till his thirteenth year, when he seemed to have outgrown the shock to spine and ner... ...e way to make me dread him. Y ou were to lie fallow.” “Not exactly. I have thirteen or fourteen years’ reading and thinking to make up. I have done no... ...quake, and this developed into regular weekly lectures on volcanoes and on colonies. She did these so well, that she was begged to repeat them for the... ...r Cambridge.” “I expect that is all my father would allow. In spite of the colonies, he has all the old notions about women, and would do nothing Aunt... ... then, let us have a presentation of ladies—she’s a governor’s wife in the colonies, you see. Never mind costumes, they may be queer. All that will st... ...ged his limbs when first we had him at home, and how delicate he was up to thirteen—only eight years ago!” “Probably it will not last long enough to d...

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...lgarity of soul, and mercenary fawning.” This was already in March; by the thirteenth of that month he was back in Edinburgh. On the 17th, he wrote to... ...e he retreats; but the prose writer has conquered like a Roman and settled colonies.” We may ask ourselves, almost with dismay, whether such works exi... ...nto personal contact with Yoshida; and hence, through the eyes of a boy of thirteen, we get one good look at the character and habits of the hero. He ... ...er is referred to Mr. Pyne’s conclusive argument. When he was no more than thirteen, his father had him affianced to Isabella, virgin-widow of our Ric... ...ndel, with the recurrence first of the whole, then of half the burthen, in thirteen verses, seem to have been invented for the prison and the sick bed... ...ntle piety, in the feelings with which Charles gave dinner every Friday to thirteen poor people, served them himself, and washed their feet with his o...

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...t I shall never have one, and so I quite want one, even now.”) When he was thirteen Mr. Elliot entered on his ill- ness. The pretty rooms in town woul... ...olours, and flew in all directions, some high, some low, some to dis- tant colonies, one into the Church of Rome. But many a father traced their cours... ...s a certain responsibility. She must pay the youth’s passage to one of the colonies, start him handsomely in some business, and then break off all com... ...don’t know—you can guess the style of thing. She wanted to treat me to the colonies, and had up the parson to talk soft-sawder and make out that a bou... ...determined to treat him well, and thought with satisfaction of our distant colonies. But he burst into an odd passion: he would sooner starve than lea...

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...re of the sea and the islands; some of which he subdued, in others planted colonies: at last he died at Camicus while he was attacking Sicily. There i... ... is in the hands of a few: for let us suppose the number of a people to be thirteen hundred, and that of these one thousand were rich, who would not p... ...of the state belong to some few particular families, who first founded the colonies. Nor would the rich, because they are superior in numbers, form a ... ...ve freed them from it, as Cyrus, or the founders of cities, or settlers of colonies, as the kings of Sparta, Macedon, and Molossus. A king desires to ... ...ons of the people; for by continually sending some of their community into colonies they procured plenty. It is also worthy of a sensible and gener- o...

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...two volumes interested me like the prose account of his three hares. In my thirteenth year I met with Campbell’s poems, among which Lochiel, Hohenli... ...iter of all, having contributed, from the second number to the eighteenth, thirteen articles; reviews of books on history and political economy, or di... ...st alone, 113 John Stuart Mill the contest for the self government of the Colonies. Noth ing, on the whole equal to these two things, was done by an... ...n two or three years, and have been since extended to nearly all the other colonies, of European race, which have any claim to the character of import...

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...therless when Tibby was born, when Helen was five and Margaret herself but thirteen. It was before the passing of the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, so ... ...ate him. Ger- many a commercial Power, Germany a naval Power, Germany with colonies here and a Forward Policy there, and legitimate aspirations in the... ...not know the mind of God.” A hate- 30 Howards End ful little girl, but at thirteen she had grasped a di- lemma that most people travel through life w... ...cover. They spoke of Tariff Reform. Mrs. Warrington was just back from the Colonies. Like many other critics of Empire, her mouth had been stopped wit...

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...new or interesting to Marya Vassilyevna who was sit- ting in the cart. For thirteen years she had been schoolmistress, and there was no reckoning how ... ...nd of the head. And with amazing distinctness, for the first time in those thirteen years, there rose before her mind a vivid picture 12 Anton Chekho... ...real Russia, was Moscow, Petersburg; but here he was in the provinces, the colonies. When one dreamed of playing a leading part, of 92 Anton Chekhov ...

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...quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an immedia... ...his exquisite prose, that I admired and sought to copy. Even at the age of thirteen I had tried to do justice to the inhabitants of the famous city of...

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...enth and twelfth, their geographical distribution throughout space; in the thirteenth, their classification or mu- tual affinities, both when mature a... ...nts have separated sexes, they never naturally crossed. He then fertilised thirteen flowers of the one with the pollen of the other; but only a single... ...................2,240 —making altogether 72,584 feet; that is, very nearly thirteen and three-quarters British miles. Some of these formations, which ... ...on- gest apparent exception to this latter rule, is that of the so-called ‘colonies’ of M. Barrande, which intrude for a period in the midst of an old... ...of growth Bamboo with hooks Barberry, flowers of Barrande, M., on Silurian colonies; on the succession of species; on parallelism of palaeozoic format... ...on of the geological record; on the appearance of spe- cies; on Barrande’s colonies; on tertiary formations of Europe and North America; on parallelis...

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...nd a twisted pillar of Derbyshire spar on each side. He was the founder of thirteen almshouses, and had endowed two scholarships at Oxford, the object... ...ing his absence on a voyage—his last, and Alan’s first. Alan, the elder by thirteen years, had been like a father to the little boy, showing judgment ... ...ir faces there,” said Flora, looking at a nice tall, smooth-haired girl of thirteen or fourteen. “No, Miss—’tis so far. I am sorry they should not, fo... ... to papa about my going to sea. It is high time to see about it—I shall be thirteen on the fourth of May.” “And you mean it seriously, Harry?” “Yes, o... ... helped them—and Mr. Arnott thought the best way would be to go out to the colonies. They went when New Zealand was very new, and a very funny life th... ...ous collection of old coins, and the like, dug up in some of the old Greek colonies, and whenever Master Monkey saw him overhauling them, he would get... ...ugust, how have things gone on?” “Oh! I don’t know.” “What’s your place?” “Thirteenth!” muttered Tom in his throat, and well he might, for two or thre... ... by. What a comfortable deep porch! If we could build such churches in the colonies, Margaret!” “See what little Meta will do for you! Yes, we had the...

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...ly thereafter were appointed for him seventeen thousand, nine hundred, and thirteen cows of the towns of Pautille and Brehemond, to furnish him with m... ...py with the tail. There were taken up for his doublet, eight hun- dred and thirteen ells of white satin, and for his points fif- teen hundred and nine... ...him Donat, Le Facet, Theodolet, and Alanus in parabolis. About this he was thirteen years, six months, and two weeks. But you must remark that in the ... ...e of the army that entered into the close of the abbey, unto the number of thirteen thousand, six hundred, twenty and two, besides the women and littl... ... Samson, and those whom the tower of Silohim slew, as it is written in the thirteenth of Luke. My opinion is, that we pursue them whilst the luck is o... ...n his kingdom, install a new king in the throne, and plant thereon foreign colonies, long before he could come to have any advertisement of it: for ob...

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...vernment, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Each colony considered itself a separate governm... ...compact at any time while the number of States was limited to the original thirteen, I do not suppose there would have been any to contest the right, ... .... The problem changed on the rati- fication of the Constitution by all the colonies; it changed still more when amendments were added; and if the righ... ...r, from which Vicksburg can be approached by practicable roads. First.—The Thirteenth army corps, Major-General John A. McClernand commanding, will co... ... nance and the authorized camp equipage of the army. Ninth.—As fast as the Thirteenth army corps advances, the Seventeenth army corps will take its pl... ...ions, and one-half the allowance of ordnance, required by previous orders. Thirteenth.—Commanders are authorized and enjoined to collect all the beef ... ...them. To the east side of Petersburg, from the Appomattox back, there were thirteen of these redans extending a distance of several 456 Personal Memo... ...mmerce between all the nationalities of the world. England governs her own colonies, and particularly those embracing the people of different races fr...

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...y. The wealthy and prin cipal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling houses in this fashion for two rea... ...tunity of a kind. Poet. How now, Hermit, is it too soon? I have got just thirteen whole ones, beside several which are imper fect or undersized; bu...

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...striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an unusually l... ... to eliminate. Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Thir Thir Thir Thir Thirteen teen teen teen teen S S S S Sur ur ur ur urviv viv viv viv vivals ...

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...e people, known as the Cossacks, whose ap- pearance towards the end of the thirteenth century or at the beginning of the fourteenth was a remarkable e... ...ring and bartering petty princes ruling in their cities, there arose great colonies, kurens*, and districts, bound together by one common danger and h... ...isappeared like an antelope on its owner perceiving that the Cossacks were thirteen strong. “And now, children, don’t try to overtake the Tatar! You w... ...er subjects. I never studied the sciences: I began to learn to write in my thirteenth year. Of course you know that I was a soldier in the ranks.” “Hm...

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...amily. The wealthy and principal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling houses in this fashion for two re... ...pportunity of a kind. Poet. How now, Hermit, is it too soon? I have got just thirteen whole ones, beside several which are imperfect or undersized; bu...

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...r: every hour produces its pamphlet, or litter of pam- phlets; ‘there were thirteen to-day, sixteen yesterday, nine- two last week.’ (Arthur Young, Tr... ...llows-ropes; for gallows any tree will serve, and suspend its culprit, or ‘thirteen’ culprits. Unhappy country! How is the fair gold-and-green of the ... ...ce into the interior: strongly yet modestly benched and seated; as many as Thirteen Hundred chosen Patriots; As- sembly Members not a few. Barnave, th... ...riotism, in instant retail, at the inadequate rate of twenty-five sous, or thirteen pence a pound. “Abstain from it?” yes, ye Patriot Sections, all ye... ...ives straight,—to- wards a purpose. It is yellow July evening, we say, the thirteenth of the month; eve of the Bastille day,—when ‘M. Marat,’ four yea... ...dge his sins and the Republic: and make a Peace of Bale. Foreign Commerce, Colonies, Factories in the East and in the West, are fallen or falling into...

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...went every day on board, and brought away what I could get. I had been now thirteen days on shore, and had been eleven times on board the ship, in whi... ... piece of meadow land, or savan- nah, as our people call it in the western colonies), which had two or three little drills of fresh water in it, and a...

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... “What if I am auctioneer? That does not prevent me from bidding. I’ll make it thirteen hun dred.” “Fourteen hundred,” from Porportuk. “I’ll buy you ... ...ge of time. Cruchot was a gendarme. He had seen twenty years of service in the colonies, from Nigeria and Senegal to the South Seas, and those twenty ...

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...e miles from its mouth; and for smaller boats to Plymouth, one hundred and thirteen miles. A small steamboat once plied between Lowell and Nashua, bef... ...ny dangers and hardships in the way, They safe arrived at Dunstable the thirteenth (?) day of May.” But they did not all “safe arrive in Dunstable ... ...teenth (?) day of May.” But they did not all “safe arrive in Dunstable the thirteenth,” 93 HenryDavidThoreau or the fifteenth, or the thirtieth “day ... ... he retreats; but the prose writer has conquered like a Roman, and settled colonies. The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always ...

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...e few. Meantime, the word creole has always been misapplied in our English colonies to a person (though of strictly European blood,) simply because bo... ...at stage of her life, which corresponds to the playful period of twelve or thirteen in a spirited girl. Such a girl, were it not that she is checked b...

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...he fallen family; and bore, in her own heart, its anxieties and shames. At thirteen, she could read and keep accounts, that is, could put down in word... ...to learn the dancing-master’s art, and seemed to have a taste that way. At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea presented herself to the da... ...f Mr Merdle’s complaint on the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, of whom whole colonies were present; or on any of the com- pany. Even on himself, its sha...

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...der changed circumstances. Her husband had been in various commands in the colonies, without returning to England; and all that was known of her was a... ...n of the Family “How long is it since you poured out tea for me, Ermine?” “Thirteen years next June, when you and Harry used to come in from the crick...

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... justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable me to in-... ... very inaccurate man in his narrative, Sir? He once told me, that he drank thirteen bottles of port at a sitting.’ Johnson. ‘Why, Sir, I do not know t...

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...nd equal? If plod- ding Themis from the Home Department, or Ceres from the Colonies, heard with as rapt attention as powerful Pallas of the Foreign Of... ...hilling that is due to them. If I have to pay it all, it will be twelve or thirteen hundred pounds. ’ ‘That will be as much as a year’s income, Mark; ...

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...he fallen family; and bore, in her own heart, its anxieties and shames. At thirteen, she could read and keep accounts, that is, could put down in word... ...to learn the dancing-master’s art, and seemed to have a taste that way. At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea presented herself to the da... ...f Mr Merdle’s complaint on the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, of whom whole colonies were present; or on any of the com- pany. Even on himself, its sha...

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...ily done, why do not more people attempt it? The tax on hair powder is but thirteen shillings a year. It may, indeed, be that the slightest dab in the... ... eve of his going, Madalina sent him word that she had no objection to the colonies, and that, under the pressing emergency of his expatriation, she w... ...ate secretaryship were not ex- actly to his taste. ‘You get so sick at the thirteenth private note,’ he said, ‘that you find yourself unable to carry ...