Forty Years of American Life, Volume 1A physician makes observations on American life for an English audience. A memoir of the doctor, born in New Hampshire, which leads him toward commentary on American politics, slavery, education, and morality. |
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... five Eastern or New England States , and some of its early settlers emigrated from the English county from which it derives its name . My father was born on the seacoast of Massachusetts , and my mother was a native of Boston . Both ...
... five Eastern or New England States , and some of its early settlers emigrated from the English county from which it derives its name . My father was born on the seacoast of Massachusetts , and my mother was a native of Boston . Both ...
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... five as sons of New Hampshire farmers , who , as boys , had held the plough , hoed corn , dug potatoes , chopped wood , and hardened their bodies with useful toil , while they picked up their education at the common school , or by the ...
... five as sons of New Hampshire farmers , who , as boys , had held the plough , hoed corn , dug potatoes , chopped wood , and hardened their bodies with useful toil , while they picked up their education at the common school , or by the ...
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... five shillings an acre , and from that extreme price down to sixpence an acre , at which price millions of acres might have been bought a few years ago . Moreover , by squatting on unsurveyed land , he could have five or ten years ...
... five shillings an acre , and from that extreme price down to sixpence an acre , at which price millions of acres might have been bought a few years ago . Moreover , by squatting on unsurveyed land , he could have five or ten years ...
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... five or six miles ' distance is willing to take his axe or his yoke of oxen , and give his neighbour a day's work . Not exactly give , either , for the favour can be repaid at some future time . Many hands make light work . A dozen or ...
... five or six miles ' distance is willing to take his axe or his yoke of oxen , and give his neighbour a day's work . Not exactly give , either , for the favour can be repaid at some future time . Many hands make light work . A dozen or ...
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... five or six thou- sand people has five or six religious societies , called churches . The distinction of church and chapel is unknown . Formerly , those who are called Dissenters in England , talked of their meeting - houses . Now ...
... five or six thou- sand people has five or six religious societies , called churches . The distinction of church and chapel is unknown . Formerly , those who are called Dissenters in England , talked of their meeting - houses . Now ...
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Page 371 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 404 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and...
Page 39 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 399 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration ; and...
Page 405 - The Ordinance is founded not on the indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly unconstitutional and too oppressive to be endured; but on the strange position that any one State may not only declare an act of Congress void, but prohibit its execution, that they may do this consistently with the Constitution, that the true construction of that instrument permits a State to retain its place in the Union, and yet be bound...
Page 399 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Page 399 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means...
Page 371 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 309 - ... if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 400 - THE people of this Commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.