Hawthorne's History of the United States: From the Landing of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace Protocol with Spain, Band 2P. F. Collier, 1898 |
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... officers dared not seize them . At length they were obliged to rent rooms , and some of the men were lodged in the ... Officers of the custom house and army officers met at the British coffee house in King Street . On the south side of ...
... officers dared not seize them . At length they were obliged to rent rooms , and some of the men were lodged in the ... Officers of the custom house and army officers met at the British coffee house in King Street . On the south side of ...
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... officers and soldiery , and there were occasional quarrels which might develop into something more serious . It was at this time that the French inhabi- tants of New Orleans rose and drove out the Spanish gov- ernor , Ulloa ; and Du ...
... officers and soldiery , and there were occasional quarrels which might develop into something more serious . It was at this time that the French inhabi- tants of New Orleans rose and drove out the Spanish gov- ernor , Ulloa ; and Du ...
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... officer told his men , if they were “ touched ” by a citizen , to " run him through the body . " Many young men went ... officers made common cause with their men , and the custom house people fomented the bitter- ness . A vague plan ...
... officer told his men , if they were “ touched ” by a citizen , to " run him through the body . " Many young men went ... officers made common cause with their men , and the custom house people fomented the bitter- ness . A vague plan ...
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... officers openly encouraged them . Their regiments were the Fourteenth and the Twenty - ninth , notorious for their dissoluteness and disorderliness . The night was cold , and a few inches of snow fell . Other groups of soldiers came out ...
... officers openly encouraged them . Their regiments were the Fourteenth and the Twenty - ninth , notorious for their dissoluteness and disorderliness . The night was cold , and a few inches of snow fell . Other groups of soldiers came out ...
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... officers and enemies -I cannot but doubt their sincerity even in the political prin- ciples they profess , and deem them mere time - servers , seek- ing their own private emoluments through any quantity of public mischief ; betrayers of ...
... officers and enemies -I cannot but doubt their sincerity even in the political prin- ciples they profess , and deem them mere time - servers , seek- ing their own private emoluments through any quantity of public mischief ; betrayers of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 642 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Seite 494 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Seite 619 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 620 - ... doubtful war. Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Seite 633 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Seite 608 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Seite 608 - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
Seite 653 - HERE on this very spot, I took leave of him ; I wished him success and honor ; you have your instructions, I said, from the Secretary of War, I had a strict eye to them, and will add but one word — BEWARE OF A SURPRISE.
Seite 653 - He went off with that as my last solemn warning thrown into his ears. And yet ! to suffer that army to be cut to pieces — hacked, butchered, tomahawked — by a surprise — the very thing I guarded him against!
Seite 697 - I expressed them therefore with great hesitation ; but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others.