The Illustrated Life of Washington ...: With Vivid Pen-paintings of Battles and Incidents, Trials and Triumphs of the Heroes and Soldiers of Revolutionary TimesE. Nebhut, 1859 - 508 ページ |
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... entering Camp with Artillery Evacuation of Boston . 125 · 134 135 90 · 145 144 The Bellman informed of the Passage of the Declaration of Independence 155 • 153 Young Callender Fighting his Gun 165 • 163 Descending the Ohio 175 97 Quaker ...
... entering Camp with Artillery Evacuation of Boston . 125 · 134 135 90 · 145 144 The Bellman informed of the Passage of the Declaration of Independence 155 • 153 Young Callender Fighting his Gun 165 • 163 Descending the Ohio 175 97 Quaker ...
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... entered into active service against the Indians , and rose to the rank of colonel . He had two sons and a daughter The elder son , Lawrence , married Mildred Warner , by whom he had three children , John , Augustine , and Mildred ...
... entered into active service against the Indians , and rose to the rank of colonel . He had two sons and a daughter The elder son , Lawrence , married Mildred Warner , by whom he had three children , John , Augustine , and Mildred ...
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... entered the forest and passed an entire month amid the mountains . The third day out , after working hard till night , he sought shelter in a miserable hovel stand- ing alone in the midst of a clearing . On retiring to bed , he ...
... entered the forest and passed an entire month amid the mountains . The third day out , after working hard till night , he sought shelter in a miserable hovel stand- ing alone in the midst of a clearing . On retiring to bed , he ...
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... entered on an almost untrodden wilderness , and commenced his surveys . Scat- tered Dutch settlers , that could not speak a word of English , collected as he passed , and the men , women and children , with their uncouth language ...
... entered on an almost untrodden wilderness , and commenced his surveys . Scat- tered Dutch settlers , that could not speak a word of English , collected as he passed , and the men , women and children , with their uncouth language ...
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... entered with all his heart , when he was compelled for a time to abandon it . His brother Law- rence , who had been for some time slowly sinking under a pulmonary disease , was advised by his physician to seek a warmer climate . Not ...
... entered with all his heart , when he was compelled for a time to abandon it . His brother Law- rence , who had been for some time slowly sinking under a pulmonary disease , was advised by his physician to seek a warmer climate . Not ...
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487 ページ - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
480 ページ - The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same Religion, Manners, Habits and political Principles. — You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together. The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts — of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
488 ページ - ... establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from time to time, abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
483 ページ - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
486 ページ - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
503 ページ - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
484 ページ - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms ; kindles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
484 ページ - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
108 ページ - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.
492 ページ - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.