Elements of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of SchoolsFrom Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1808 - 223 ページ |
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... confiderable additions . By this act , all trade with England and the colonies was restricted to English fhips , the master of which and three- fourths at least of the feamen , were to be English ; and the colonies were prohibited from ...
... confiderable additions . By this act , all trade with England and the colonies was restricted to English fhips , the master of which and three- fourths at least of the feamen , were to be English ; and the colonies were prohibited from ...
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... confiderable army was collected in the towns near Bolton , and it was deter- mined to annoy , and if poffible , diflodge the British forces in Boston . For this purpose a detachment was ordered on the night of the 16th of June , 1775 ...
... confiderable army was collected in the towns near Bolton , and it was deter- mined to annoy , and if poffible , diflodge the British forces in Boston . For this purpose a detachment was ordered on the night of the 16th of June , 1775 ...
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... confiderable ; not amounting to a hundred killed , and three hundred wounded and miffing . Among the killed however was general Warren , a brave officer and firm patriot . " 44. Surprize of Ticonderoga , and Crown - Point . The ...
... confiderable ; not amounting to a hundred killed , and three hundred wounded and miffing . Among the killed however was general Warren , a brave officer and firm patriot . " 44. Surprize of Ticonderoga , and Crown - Point . The ...
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... confiderable action took place at White Plains . In danger of being . furrounded , general Washington was compelled to aban- don York Island , leaving a garrifon in fort Wafhington ;. but this was affaulted and taken foon after , with ...
... confiderable action took place at White Plains . In danger of being . furrounded , general Washington was compelled to aban- don York Island , leaving a garrifon in fort Wafhington ;. but this was affaulted and taken foon after , with ...
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... confiderable number . The Americans loft a number of men , and that veteran and deferving officer , general Woofter . In May , Colonel Meigs , a brave and enterprizing officer , with 170 men , paffed over to Long Island , destroyed the ...
... confiderable number . The Americans loft a number of men , and that veteran and deferving officer , general Woofter . In May , Colonel Meigs , a brave and enterprizing officer , with 170 men , paffed over to Long Island , destroyed the ...
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221 ページ - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
213 ページ - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
207 ページ - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my...
220 ページ - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
220 ページ - It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to...
214 ページ - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
210 ページ - But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...
208 ページ - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
214 ページ - HOWEVER combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
216 ページ - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.