The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

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John Martin Vincent
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1904 - History

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Page 80 - 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 of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 29 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 85 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.
Page 1 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 53 - APPLEGARTH. 75 cents. X-XI. Columbus and His Discovery of America. By HB ADAMS and H. WOOD. 50 cents.
Page 41 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us.
Page 53 - Representation in Virginia. By JAC CHANDLER. 50 cents. VIII. History of Taxation in Connecticut (1636-1776). By FR JONES. 50 cents. IX-X. A Study of Slavery in New Jersey. By HENRY S.
Page 16 - Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darkness be the burier of the dead!
Page 16 - While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise.
Page 55 - Wherever through the ages rise The altars of self-sacrifice, Where love its arms has opened wide, Or' man for man has calmly died, I see the same white wings outspread That hovered o'er the Master's head...

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