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... natural effect of diminishing for a time our interest in the past , a history which not only fills our hearts with sadness , and absorbs the attention of the country , but which has seemed almost equally to astonish and interest the ...
... natural effect of diminishing for a time our interest in the past , a history which not only fills our hearts with sadness , and absorbs the attention of the country , but which has seemed almost equally to astonish and interest the ...
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... . The horoscope of the future is connected with the past by bonds fixed and determinate , by mutual dependencies as inseparable as those which harmonize the laws of nature . History is , 24 [ JUNE , MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
... . The horoscope of the future is connected with the past by bonds fixed and determinate , by mutual dependencies as inseparable as those which harmonize the laws of nature . History is , 24 [ JUNE , MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
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Massachusetts Historical Society. which harmonize the laws of nature . History is , as it were , the conscience of ... natural features of the scenery , there as here , are generally distinguished by names originating in a more remote ...
Massachusetts Historical Society. which harmonize the laws of nature . History is , as it were , the conscience of ... natural features of the scenery , there as here , are generally distinguished by names originating in a more remote ...
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... nature , the con- currence of a majority was requisite . My expression , " each of its acts , " is , in truth , not scrupulously exact . Had it been " such of its acts , " or " acts of this kind , " either phrase would have been a more ...
... nature , the con- currence of a majority was requisite . My expression , " each of its acts , " is , in truth , not scrupulously exact . Had it been " such of its acts , " or " acts of this kind , " either phrase would have been a more ...
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Massachusetts Historical Society. It is almost universally admitted , as a law of our nature , that , in aged persons , the memory retains its earlier more firm- ly than its more recent acquisitions ; and that those impressions which are ...
Massachusetts Historical Society. It is almost universally admitted , as a law of our nature , that , in aged persons , the memory retains its earlier more firm- ly than its more recent acquisitions ; and that those impressions which are ...
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Page 92 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Page 128 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest...
Page 110 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 102 - I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Page 91 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 115 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Page 95 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 130 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 127 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Page 103 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa. Yet our repeated attempts to effect this, by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative ; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs,...