A History of the United States of America: From the First Discovery to the Fourth of March 1825R. Robbins, 1825 - 422 Seiten |
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... loss of many killed and wounded . Among the wounded was the gallant Smith . His dress bespoke his consequence , and he was treated kindly . On his recovery from his wounds he was sold to the Basha Bogul , who sent him as a present to ...
... loss of many killed and wounded . Among the wounded was the gallant Smith . His dress bespoke his consequence , and he was treated kindly . On his recovery from his wounds he was sold to the Basha Bogul , who sent him as a present to ...
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... losses of he colony , however , which these calamities had rought upon them , were soon in a measure repared , by the arrival of new adven- turers . Section VIII While the Virginians were mourning their bsses , the Pymouth colony be ...
... losses of he colony , however , which these calamities had rought upon them , were soon in a measure repared , by the arrival of new adven- turers . Section VIII While the Virginians were mourning their bsses , the Pymouth colony be ...
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... losses in commerce , nor had provisions , in any period of the war , been more scarce or borne a higher price . Section VII . In the midst of these distresses , the country was threatened with a blow , which it seemed impossible that it ...
... losses in commerce , nor had provisions , in any period of the war , been more scarce or borne a higher price . Section VII . In the midst of these distresses , the country was threatened with a blow , which it seemed impossible that it ...
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... loss . Section XXIV . Two years after , 1742 , the Spaniards invaded Georgia in turn . A Spanish armament , consisting of thirty - two sail , with three thousand men , under command of Don Manuel de Monteano , sailed from St. Augustine ...
... loss . Section XXIV . Two years after , 1742 , the Spaniards invaded Georgia in turn . A Spanish armament , consisting of thirty - two sail , with three thousand men , under command of Don Manuel de Monteano , sailed from St. Augustine ...
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... losses had been sustained in their commerce , and many of their vessels had been seized on the coast by privateers . Bills of credit to the amount of several millions , had been issued to carry on the war , which they were now unable to ...
... losses had been sustained in their commerce , and many of their vessels had been seized on the coast by privateers . Bills of credit to the amount of several millions , had been issued to carry on the war , which they were now unable to ...
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Seite 297 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Seite 166 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Seite 154 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 242 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Seite 297 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Seite 287 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Seite 222 - Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
Seite 80 - God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in , matters of that nature.
Seite 152 - Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Seite 294 - ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...