The American Historical Review, Volume 27

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John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler
American Historical Association, 1922
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
 

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Page 447 - Je veux qu'on soit sincère, et qu'en homme d'honneur On ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du cœur.
Page 459 - It is agreed that it shall at all times be free to His Majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the United States, and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the said boundary line, freely to pass and repass by land or inland navigation, into the respective territories and countries of the two parties, on the continent of America...
Page 488 - ... come, tell us your reason : what sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion ? 'Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
Page 463 - He occasionally departed from the skeleton of his old field-notes to embellish his narrative with comments of his own. Thompson declares that the North West Company's desire to learn the precise location of the parallel of 49° north was prompted by the treaty of 1792, which had made that parallel the boundary between the United States and Canada from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. He states that such a line was then adopted to remedy the gap left in 1783.
Page 459 - The river Mississippi shall, however, according to the treaty of peace, be entirely open to both parties ; and it is further agreed, that all the ports and places on its eastern side, to whichsoever of the parties belonging, may freely be resorted to and used by both parties, in as ample a manner as any of the Atlantic ports or places of the United States, or any of the ports or places of His Majesty in Great Britain.
Page 436 - La qual cosa merita d'esser notata ed osservata da qualunque cittadino si trova a consigliare la patria sua; perché dove si delibera al tutto della salute della patria, non vi debbe cadere alcuna considerazione né di giusto né d'ingiusto, né di pietoso né di crudele, né di laudabile né d...
Page 257 - I am nearly broken down with labor and anxiety. I know not how to meet the present emergency, or with what weapons to beat down the Northern and Southern follies, now raging in equal extremes.
Page 3 - England's a perfect World ! has Indies too ! Correct your Maps : New-castle is Peru...
Page 9 - Another thing that is remarkable is their wayleaves, for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave.
Page 459 - No duty of entry shall ever be levied by either party on peltries brought by land or inland navigation into the said territories respectively, nor shall the Indians passing or repassing with their own proper goods and effects of whatever nature, pay for the same any impost or duty whatever. But goods in bales, or other large packages, unusual among Indians, shall not be considered as goods belonging bona fide to Indians.

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