History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Period of the Fifth Census, in 1830: Comprising Every Important Political Event ...Grigg & Elliot, 1840 - 326 страници |
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... attacked by two large French privateers ; when , after a desperate battle , in which many men on both sides were killed , she and her consort were themselves plundered , and forced to return to England ! " Thus , THE UNITED STATES . 23.
... attacked by two large French privateers ; when , after a desperate battle , in which many men on both sides were killed , she and her consort were themselves plundered , and forced to return to England ! " Thus , THE UNITED STATES . 23.
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... attacked by two hundred Indians who poured upon him a continued flight of arrows . Seiz ing one of the assailants , Smith tied him with his garter to his arm , and used him as a shield to arrest the darts ; a re- source which did not ...
... attacked by two hundred Indians who poured upon him a continued flight of arrows . Seiz ing one of the assailants , Smith tied him with his garter to his arm , and used him as a shield to arrest the darts ; a re- source which did not ...
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... attacked without provocation . In a few days after the English landed , cap- tain Standish , with a party of sixteen men , well armed , went to explore the country ; and , about a mile from the sea , discovered five " savages , " who ...
... attacked without provocation . In a few days after the English landed , cap- tain Standish , with a party of sixteen men , well armed , went to explore the country ; and , about a mile from the sea , discovered five " savages , " who ...
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... attacked fort Say Brook ; from which , when driven off , they retired to places deemed inaccessible to an invading enemy . The troops of Con- necticut were soon assembled , and ready for the field : but the march of those from ...
... attacked fort Say Brook ; from which , when driven off , they retired to places deemed inaccessible to an invading enemy . The troops of Con- necticut were soon assembled , and ready for the field : but the march of those from ...
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... attack . Notwith- standing , however , that , like the defenders of the Roman capitol , they had been summoned by an instinctive guard- ian , they were not equally successful in overthrowing thei invaders . A dreadful carnage ensued ...
... attack . Notwith- standing , however , that , like the defenders of the Roman capitol , they had been summoned by an instinctive guard- ian , they were not equally successful in overthrowing thei invaders . A dreadful carnage ensued ...
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Страница 121 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Страница 105 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We, have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Страница 91 - 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.
Страница 106 - 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.
Страница 189 - States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Страница 106 - But, lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Страница 189 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate.
Страница 119 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Страница 87 - They nourished by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons...
Страница 199 - States ; if the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; to fix the standard of weights and measures...