The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Band 4author, 1788 |
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... some times without , meat , often without flour , and alway without fpirituous liquors . Notwithstanding the wintry feason , and their having little clothing , they were daily reduced to the neceffity of fording deep creeks , 7 . 1781 ...
... some times without , meat , often without flour , and alway without fpirituous liquors . Notwithstanding the wintry feason , and their having little clothing , they were daily reduced to the neceffity of fording deep creeks , 7 . 1781 ...
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... Some days after he informed baron Steuben- " We have been astonishingly fuccefsful in our late , great , and fatiguing retreat , and have never loft , in one instance , any thing of the least value . " It was with inexpreffible grief ...
... Some days after he informed baron Steuben- " We have been astonishingly fuccefsful in our late , great , and fatiguing retreat , and have never loft , in one instance , any thing of the least value . " It was with inexpreffible grief ...
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... some strength . Lieut . col . Lee's legion recroffed the Dan on the 18th , agreeable to the wifh of gen . Greene , to watch the mo- tions of Cornwallis's army ; which , after having col- lected a quantity of provision , began on the ...
... some strength . Lieut . col . Lee's legion recroffed the Dan on the 18th , agreeable to the wifh of gen . Greene , to watch the mo- tions of Cornwallis's army ; which , after having col- lected a quantity of provision , began on the ...
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... Some gentlemen object to the recommendation , or at least a compliance with it , and say— " Drawing money infenfibly from the people by imposts may be a favorite scheme in monar- chies and ariftocracies ; but in republican governments ...
... Some gentlemen object to the recommendation , or at least a compliance with it , and say— " Drawing money infenfibly from the people by imposts may be a favorite scheme in monar- chies and ariftocracies ; but in republican governments ...
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... some per- fons to leave the ftate , and retire with his remaining force to Virginia . To fuch fuggeftions he nobly an- fwered- " I will recover the country , or die in the at- June 20. tempt . " On the 20th , the American army croffed ...
... some per- fons to leave the ftate , and retire with his remaining force to Virginia . To fuch fuggeftions he nobly an- fwered- " I will recover the country , or die in the at- June 20. tempt . " On the 20th , the American army croffed ...
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Seite 361 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Seite 260 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 362 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Seite 365 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Seite 419 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Seite 361 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Seite 420 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Seite 421 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Seite 361 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 362 - Cauihouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.