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Massachusetts Historical Society. OFFICERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 10 , 1924 . President HENRY CABOT LODGE NAHANT . Vice - Presidents ARTHUR LORD PLYMOUTH . CHARLES HOMER HASKINS CAMBRIDGE . Recording Secretary ...
Massachusetts Historical Society. OFFICERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 10 , 1924 . President HENRY CABOT LODGE NAHANT . Vice - Presidents ARTHUR LORD PLYMOUTH . CHARLES HOMER HASKINS CAMBRIDGE . Recording Secretary ...
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... President , Mr. LODGE , in the chair . The President announced that he had just received word of the death of our associate Mr. Stanwood , Recording Secre- tary , and Mr. Tuttle acted as Recording Secretary , pro tem- pore . The record ...
... President , Mr. LODGE , in the chair . The President announced that he had just received word of the death of our associate Mr. Stanwood , Recording Secre- tary , and Mr. Tuttle acted as Recording Secretary , pro tem- pore . The record ...
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... President Cleveland's Cabinet , and eleven other photographs . The President announced the appointment of the follow- ing delegates to the Parkman Centenary at Montreal on November 13 , 1923 : The French Ambassador , M. Jus- serand ...
... President Cleveland's Cabinet , and eleven other photographs . The President announced the appointment of the follow- ing delegates to the Parkman Centenary at Montreal on November 13 , 1923 : The French Ambassador , M. Jus- serand ...
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... President Eliot . I entered Harvard College when Dr. Hill was President and in my sophomore year Dr. Peabody was the Acting President . In 1869 , in the middle of my course , came Pres- ident Eliot , so it befell that I was placed just ...
... President Eliot . I entered Harvard College when Dr. Hill was President and in my sophomore year Dr. Peabody was the Acting President . In 1869 , in the middle of my course , came Pres- ident Eliot , so it befell that I was placed just ...
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... President Eliot's work as a great educator of men , or fitly describe his other manifold contacts with the life of his time , in which he has played such a dis- tinguished part . That would demand volumes instead of the limits of a ...
... President Eliot's work as a great educator of men , or fitly describe his other manifold contacts with the life of his time , in which he has played such a dis- tinguished part . That would demand volumes instead of the limits of a ...
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Page 380 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 388 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 52 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 40 - A narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish plot, carried on for burning and destroying the cities of London and Westminster, with their suburbs : setting forth the several...
Page 183 - Certain Conditions or Concessions, Agreed upon by William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and those who are the adventurers and purchasers in the same province the Eleventh of July, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one.
Page 139 - Our anxiety arising from the licentious and open resistance to the laws in the western counties of Pennsylvania has been increased by the proceedings of certain self-created societies relative to the laws and administration of the Government; proceedings, in our apprehension, founded in political error, calculated, if not intended, to disorganize our Government, and which, by inspiring delusive hopes of support, have been influential in misleading our fellow-citizens in the scene of insurrection.
Page 151 - Government has been just and impartial to foreign nations, that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper, and that they have been fairly executed...
Page 390 - No receding by the Executive of the United States, on the slavery question, from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the government.
Page 52 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Page 178 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.