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... DUTIES . A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , December 30 , 1841 THE IMPRISONMENT OF FREE COLORED SEAMEN . A Report made to the House of Representatives of the United States , Jan- uary 20 , 1843 THE ...
... DUTIES . A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States , December 30 , 1841 THE IMPRISONMENT OF FREE COLORED SEAMEN . A Report made to the House of Representatives of the United States , Jan- uary 20 , 1843 THE ...
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... duty , of divine law or human rights , been imparted by our principles or inspired by our example ! " This country , Fellow - Citizens , has in no respect more entirely contravened all previous experience in human affairs , than in ...
... duty , of divine law or human rights , been imparted by our principles or inspired by our example ! " This country , Fellow - Citizens , has in no respect more entirely contravened all previous experience in human affairs , than in ...
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... duty , which you have done me the unmerited honor to as- sign me in the celebration of this hallowed Anniversary , I was more than once tempted to quit the narrow track of remark which I have now pursued , and to indulge in speculations ...
... duty , which you have done me the unmerited honor to as- sign me in the celebration of this hallowed Anniversary , I was more than once tempted to quit the narrow track of remark which I have now pursued , and to indulge in speculations ...
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... duties — military trainings . And in the same year , we catch another most inter- esting glimpse of the operations of our growing trade , in a com- plaint solemnly considered by the General Court , against alleged oppression in the sale ...
... duties — military trainings . And in the same year , we catch another most inter- esting glimpse of the operations of our growing trade , in a com- plaint solemnly considered by the General Court , against alleged oppression in the sale ...
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... duty second only in obligation to the love of God , is to find its measure in that love of self , which has been im- planted in our nature for no unwise or unwarrantable ends . Yet , Gentlemen , while I would vindicate the commercial ...
... duty second only in obligation to the love of God , is to find its measure in that love of self , which has been im- planted in our nature for no unwise or unwarrantable ends . Yet , Gentlemen , while I would vindicate the commercial ...
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Page 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 87 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 84 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 155 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Page 22 - But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away that were thus loath to depart, their reverend pastor falling down on his knees, and they all with him, with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent prayers unto the Lord and his blessing ; and then, with mutual embraces and many tears, they took their leave of one another, which proved to be the last leave to many of them.
Page 192 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 78 - I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me...
Page 81 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 322 - January, 1790, has applied his attention, at as early a period as his other duties would permit, to the subject of Manufactures, and particularly to the means of promoting such as will tend to render the United States independent on foreign nations, for military and other essential supplies...
Page 75 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.