Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art, Bind 10Western Press Assoc., 1914 |
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Side 4472
... fighting for the preservation of their national independence , while the British contended that they were fighting for the equal political equality of all white men from the Cape to the Zambesie and for the preservation of their empire ...
... fighting for the preservation of their national independence , while the British contended that they were fighting for the equal political equality of all white men from the Cape to the Zambesie and for the preservation of their empire ...
Side 4476
... fighting , driving the Boers in headlong flight down Smith Hill and capturing their cannon . The British lost forty - three killed and one hundred and eighty - one wounded ; among whom was General Sir William Penn Symons , who was ...
... fighting , driving the Boers in headlong flight down Smith Hill and capturing their cannon . The British lost forty - three killed and one hundred and eighty - one wounded ; among whom was General Sir William Penn Symons , who was ...
Side 4477
... fighting , the main body of the British detachment returned to their cantonments unmolested . But on the night of the 29th General White sent out Colonel Carlton , with a mountain battery and some of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and some ...
... fighting , the main body of the British detachment returned to their cantonments unmolested . But on the night of the 29th General White sent out Colonel Carlton , with a mountain battery and some of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and some ...
Side 4478
... fighting on the Rhodesian frontier ; and the British patrols retired to Tuli , as the Boers were in considerable force . Boer patrols were harrying the natives and stealing cattle . General Sir Redvers Henry Buller arrived at Cape Town ...
... fighting on the Rhodesian frontier ; and the British patrols retired to Tuli , as the Boers were in considerable force . Boer patrols were harrying the natives and stealing cattle . General Sir Redvers Henry Buller arrived at Cape Town ...
Side 4479
... fighting near Bulwana and at Bester's Station . The Boers continued to bombard Ladysmith without much effect . Lieu- tenant Egerton , of the British warship Powerful , died of a shell wound . The Boers proclaimed the Upper Tugela ...
... fighting near Bulwana and at Bester's Station . The Boers continued to bombard Ladysmith without much effect . Lieu- tenant Egerton , of the British warship Powerful , died of a shell wound . The Boers proclaimed the Upper Tugela ...
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Side 4799 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Side 4784 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Side 4804 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the UNION by which the}' were procured ? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ? To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.
Side 4791 - Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-Président; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-Président of the United States.
Side 4795 - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Side 4805 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
Side 4767 - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Side 4799 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Side 4800 - The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially...
Side 4765 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalised orinade a denizen, except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament...