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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... West- Haven , and by a circuitous march entered New - Haven , after fome oppofition , where they deftroyed a number of ftores , and committed other outrages . The next day ,. they embarked , and proceeding weftward , landed and . burnt ...
... West- Haven , and by a circuitous march entered New - Haven , after fome oppofition , where they deftroyed a number of ftores , and committed other outrages . The next day ,. they embarked , and proceeding weftward , landed and . burnt ...
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... West - Indies , and it was determined to at tack general Prevoft at Savanna . At first a regular fiege was begun , but the count , impatient of delay , urged an affault .. On the 9th of October , an attempt was made to storm the works ...
... West - Indies , and it was determined to at tack general Prevoft at Savanna . At first a regular fiege was begun , but the count , impatient of delay , urged an affault .. On the 9th of October , an attempt was made to storm the works ...
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... West Indies , and fome of their poffeffions on the fouth American coast , .. had fhared the fame fate . Admiral Rodney , in 1782 ,. obtained a most important naval victory over the French fleet under the count de Graffe , which in fome ...
... West Indies , and fome of their poffeffions on the fouth American coast , .. had fhared the fame fate . Admiral Rodney , in 1782 ,. obtained a most important naval victory over the French fleet under the count de Graffe , which in fome ...
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... western - moft point of that lake , due weft to the Miffifippi . * 138. Other Limits of the United States . The western limit of the United States is , a line drawn along the middle of the Miffifippi to the termination of the thirty ...
... western - moft point of that lake , due weft to the Miffifippi . * 138. Other Limits of the United States . The western limit of the United States is , a line drawn along the middle of the Miffifippi to the termination of the thirty ...
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... west of the mountains , the weather is milder in the fame latitudes , and storms of wind , rain , and fnow , lefs frequent and violent . 143. Temperature of the Summer Heat . In all parts of the United States , the heat of fummer is ...
... west of the mountains , the weather is milder in the fame latitudes , and storms of wind , rain , and fnow , lefs frequent and violent . 143. Temperature of the Summer Heat . In all parts of the United States , the heat of fummer is ...
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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.