An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-IndiesTiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 519 עמודים |
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עמוד 109 - is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him, from his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he fees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his
עמוד 109 - a country in this world, it muft be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another; in which he muft lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends
עמוד 209 - in General Affembly freely given. XVII. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the State ; and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military
עמוד 110 - I would not have a flave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That
עמוד 114 - of the whole fcheme of education would be the teaching all the children of the State reading, writing, and common arithmetic ; turning out ten annually of fuperior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of arithmetic ; turning out ten others annually, of
עמוד 208 - laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without the confent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not
עמוד 115 - Hiftory, by apprifing them of the paft, will enable them to judge of the future ; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations ; it will qualify them
עמוד 209 - and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military fhould be kept under
עמוד 115 - is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the fafe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty : for this purpofe, the reading in the
עמוד 212 - and continue to pofTefs in the county which he reprefents, not lefs than one hundred acres of land in fee, or for the term of his own life. VII. That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and