chronicle of the breach

... period in the garret of Tom Dawes's house. "There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose ... to estimate the value of colonies in terms of what they could buy, and not merely, as of old, in terms of what they could sell. From this point of view, the superiority of the continental over the insular ... till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month....

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... deterrent to the growth of the order in the East was the organization of two Granges among the commission men and the grain dealers of Boston and New York, under the aegis of that clause of the constitution ... most of the other States of the Union and even for the national regulation of railroads through the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Supreme Court of the United States was the theater for the ... the incident. The year 1873 is important in the annals of the Grange because it marks the retirement of the "founders" from power. In January of that year, at the sixth session of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... brought with them the books and the habits of the reader and scholar of their day. They were superior to those of the second and third generation in the breadth of their ideas and in the vigor and ... their children; they disapproved of the lax Dutch observance of Sunday and saw in the temptations of the place a menace to the habits and morals of the younger members of the flock, and, in the ... derelictions of duty to the iniquity of the times rather than to any evil intention of the heart. Then declaring that the chief aim of the charter was liberty of conscience, the King struck at the very...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... with one another the weapons of their common stock. The advance was made in the middle of the night, but at this season of the year the whole {60} scene was brilliant with the light of the midnight ... land offered nothing to their search, the air was moderate and the weather singularly mild. The broad sheet of open water, of the very colour of the ocean itself, buoyed up their hopes of the ... opportunity of alleviating the extreme hunger that I suffered with the refuse of the table of one of my acquaintances. At the end of the month (December 1770), they reached the woods, a thick growth of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... of their posts; and it is "armed with the tremendous weapons" which slay legislation. And if the voice of the Church was the voice of God, so the voice of the Court is the voice of ... from the doctrine of the separation of powers—that, while the function of making new law belongs to the legislative branch of the Government, that of expounding the standing law, of which the ... importance" of the implications of this case for the future of the Republic, contrasted the frivolity of the charges brought against Chase with the magnitude of the crimes of which Warren...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... perusal of the record is the inability of members to appreciate the importance of the issues. Much of the tedious and pointless character of their speeches may be ascribed to the lack of the personal ... disposition of two state governments, and the efficacy of the provisions of their respective laws. And security of other States and the money of all are at the discretion of one. These things ... better to throw the veil of charity over them, ascribing their stiffness to the effects of age, or to the unskillfulness of my teacher, rather than to pride and dignity of office, which God...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... duties of office. The Constitution provides that “in case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, ... message opened with the statement that “ever since the beginning of the present session of the Senate, the different heads of the departments attached to the executive branch of the government have ... group the nominations of several persons for public offices already filled. One of these offices is the Collectorship of the Port of New York, now held by General Merritt; another is the consul...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... to blame for their behaviour during the day. The sons of liberty broke the windows of prominent loyalists; and the members of the Doric Club completely wrecked {72} the office of the Vindicator ... factors the undisciplined state of the loyalists, the darkness of the night, the vicinity of woods, and the proximity of the boundary-line, {92} beyond which he did not allow the pursuit to go. The ... side of the church, and the 32nd and 83rd on the other. Some of the rebels ran out and fired at the troops, then threw down their arms and begged for quarter. Our officers tried to save the {99}...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... finish. For a few minutes the two ships plunged ahead so near each other that the rammers of the American sailors struck the side of the Frolic as they drove the shot down the throats of their guns. It ... recommendation to the mercy of the President. The verdict was approved by Madison, but he remitted the execution of the sentence because of the CHAPTER I 8 CHAPTER VIII THE LAST CRUISE OF THE ESSEX The last ... out-footed the enemy. But soon the Pomone and the Tenedos, frigates of the class of the Shannon and the Guerrière, were in the hunt. Decatur was cornered, but his guns were served until a fifth of the...

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... to send them to the other side of the globe. At a time when the British and the Dutch East India companies insolently claimed a monopoly of the trade of the Orient, No less devout were the merchants ... against each other, the gunners scorched by the flashes of the cannon in the ports of the opposing ship, with scarcely room to ply the rammers, and the sailors throwing missiles from the decks, ... during the greater part of the eighteenth century. Yet with an immense tenacity of purpose, these briny forefathers increased their trade and multiplied their ships in the face of every manner of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... day write. They include the epic of the coal in the Pennsylvania hills, the epic of the ore, the epic of the railroad, the epic of the great city; and, in general, the subjugation of a continental ... PIONEERS OF THE MACHINE SHOP IX. THE FATHERS OF ELECTRICITY X. THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE AGE OF INVENTION The Legal Small Print 6 hand. The owners of the mills are particularly ... Even in the early days before machinery, division of labor was the rule in the shops of Massachusetts. One workman cut the leather, often tanned on the premises; another sewed the uppers together,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... was safely off the planking of the bridge and on to the road proper with plenty of cover all round me. As my clothes were of a light coffee tint they assimilated very well with the colours of the dusty ... over-flowing with the surface water from the camp, when the rainy months come along. At the end of the camp was a space wired off from the rest of the ground for the use of the soldier servants. CHAPTER ... one of the baskets could be cut open from the inside, and the others could then be opened with the keys that the occupant of this basket had on him. At about eight o'clock the German officer...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20

... the progress of the works. Ten years later he announced the official inauguration of the lighthouse on the 1st of April. In 1736 the chief item was the engineer's report on the walls. Next year the ... together, in the light of the complete naval and military proof. So perhaps the following short account may really be the first attempt to tell the tale of Louisbourg from the foundation to the ... sort of running fight till they got under the covering fire of Louisbourg, when the pursuing British immediately drew off. Considering the number of boats that were stove and the intensity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... map of the world place a finger of one hand on the western end of Alaska and a finger of the other on the northeastern tip of Asia and follow the main bones of the two continents. See how the ... politics. The Atlantic coastal plain is by no means the only part of the United States where the fertility of the soil is the dominant fact in the life of the people. Because of their rich soil the ... occur again in the Orinoco region of South America and the Sahara of Africa. Thence they stretch almost unbroken toward the southern end of the continents. In view of the fertility of the plains...

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