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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... hundred and fifty men . In the month of July , they arrived at Roanoke , and endeavoured to find the small par- ty left there by sir Richard Greenville ; but , of their fate , they collected no satisfactory account . It is most proba ...
... hundred and fifty men . In the month of July , they arrived at Roanoke , and endeavoured to find the small par- ty left there by sir Richard Greenville ; but , of their fate , they collected no satisfactory account . It is most proba ...
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... hundred tons , and two barks , under the command of captain Newport , sailed with one hundred and five men , destined to remain in the country . Some of these were of respectable families ; particularly Mr. Percy , a brother of the Earl ...
... hundred tons , and two barks , under the command of captain Newport , sailed with one hundred and five men , destined to remain in the country . Some of these were of respectable families ; particularly Mr. Percy , a brother of the Earl ...
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... 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 induce his ...
... 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 induce his ...
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... hundred planters . Unfortunately , a violent hurricane separated , from the rest of the fleet , the vessel in which these officers had embarked . The remainder arrived safely at James- town . The accident , however , produced ...
... hundred planters . Unfortunately , a violent hurricane separated , from the rest of the fleet , the vessel in which these officers had embarked . The remainder arrived safely at James- town . The accident , however , produced ...
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... hundred London bushels ; whereas , in England , forty bushels of wheat from the same extent , are considered as a large crop . " In some other parts , however , they pur- sued the cultivation of the soil on a much more extended scale ...
... hundred London bushels ; whereas , in England , forty bushels of wheat from the same extent , are considered as a large crop . " In some other parts , however , they pur- sued the cultivation of the soil on a much more extended scale ...
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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...