Opis: A Brief Dissertation on the Rise and Vicissitudes of the United States - McCormick Jas; A.

Excerpt from A Brief Dissertation on the Rise and Vicissitudes of the United States: With Portraits of Forty American Statesmen, Whose Lives Illume Four Epochs of American History

Bcult to find a parallel or precedent for the Rise and Progress of the United States of America. According to legend Rome was founded by descendants of neas who, fleeing from Grecian rapine and the destruction of Troj, established themselves upon the rock-ribbed hills along the Tibers banks. Within the walls erected by Romulus and Remus the victims of oppression and tyrann were welcomed, protected and invested with citizenship. Their power increased with numbers, and in course of time their legions were sent to less progressive nations to instruct them in their arts and sciences, their literature and laws. The history of the civilized world for quite two centuries is the natural and logical amplification of the characteristics of those Trojan exiles. So, in a measure, it may be said the United States had its beginning. A band of refugees from Europe, seeking that freedom of religious thought and word which was denied them in their native country, settled in the wilderness of an unknown land, inhabited by savage beasts and still more savage men. They brought with them a social compact of democratic government, which was mutually agreed to and subscribed in the cabin of the Mayflower, while she was rocking upon the bosom of the Atlantic, along New Englands shore. The settlement thus fixed was fraught with weal or woe to all mankind. The principles of government then and there established have been preserved and propagated by countless offshoots of the storied pilgrim stock, and as well by those whom they beaconed and welcomed hither from beneath the rule and tyranny of old world kings and privileged classes. Here the alien stranger was invited, welcomed, and invested with a robe of citizenship, compared with which that conferred by Rome, in its most glorious days, is insignificant and trivial. It is not necessary to the purposes here in hand to do more than merely allude to the history of the thirteen colonies from their settlement down to the time when the so-called mother country, through its King and Parliament, attempted to extend and exercise an unwarrantable jurisdiction over them. But it is assumed that from that time say 1761 a few words may not be out of place, with regard to the rise and vicissitudes of the United States, and the statesmen who made its history.

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Nazwa: A Brief Dissertation on the Rise and Vicissitudes of the United States With Portraits of Forty American Statesmen, Whose Lives Illume Four Epochs of American History (Classic Reprint)
Autor: McCormick Jas; A.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330497241
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 64
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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