A History of the United States of America: From the First Discovery to the Fourth of March 1825R. Robbins, 1825 - 422 páginas |
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... arms , utensils , paints , and ornaments of the deceased were buried with him , and a mound of earth raised over his grave . Among some tribes in New England , and among the Five Nations , the dead were buried in a sitting posture ...
... arms , utensils , paints , and ornaments of the deceased were buried with him , and a mound of earth raised over his grave . Among some tribes in New England , and among the Five Nations , the dead were buried in a sitting posture ...
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... arms , bear- ing three Turk's heads in a shield . In a subsequent battle between the Transylvanian army , and a body of Turks and Tartars , the former was defeated , with a loss of many killed and wounded . Among the wounded was the ...
... arms , bear- ing three Turk's heads in a shield . In a subsequent battle between the Transylvanian army , and a body of Turks and Tartars , the former was defeated , with a loss of many killed and wounded . Among the wounded was the ...
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... arm , as a shield from the enemies ' ar- rows , while with his musket he despatched three of the most for- ward of the ... arms , and led him in triumph to Powhatan their king Powhatan and his council doomed him to death , as a man whose ...
... arm , as a shield from the enemies ' ar- rows , while with his musket he despatched three of the most for- ward of the ... arms , and led him in triumph to Powhatan their king Powhatan and his council doomed him to death , as a man whose ...
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... arm of persecution , for urging a more thorough reform- ation in the Church of England . They fled from England , first to Amsterdam , in Holland , in 1607 , with their pastor , the Rev. Mr. Robinson . From Amsterdam , they soon af- ter ...
... arm of persecution , for urging a more thorough reform- ation in the Church of England . They fled from England , first to Amsterdam , in Holland , in 1607 , with their pastor , the Rev. Mr. Robinson . From Amsterdam , they soon af- ter ...
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... arm of civil power ; not yet having learnt that persecution is a ready way to propagate the sentiments of the persecuted . In the year 1646 , a synod met at Cambridge , which , by ad- journment , protracted its session to 1648 , when it ...
... arm of civil power ; not yet having learnt that persecution is a ready way to propagate the sentiments of the persecuted . In the year 1646 , a synod met at Cambridge , which , by ad- journment , protracted its session to 1648 , when it ...
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Página 297 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 166 - 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.
Página 154 - 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.
Página 242 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Página 297 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Página 287 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Página 222 - Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
Página 80 - God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in , matters of that nature.
Página 152 - Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Página 294 - ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...