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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... Five Nations , the dead were buried in a sitting posture , with their faces towards the east . During the burial they uttered the most lamentable cries , and continued their mourning for several days . The origin of the Indians ...
... Five Nations , the dead were buried in a sitting posture , with their faces towards the east . During the burial they uttered the most lamentable cries , and continued their mourning for several days . The origin of the Indians ...
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... five hundred inhabitants , was reduced in six months , by pestilence , to sixty . Disheartened by this fearful ca- lamity , they resolved to leave the country , and return to England . They therefore embarked on board some vessels ...
... five hundred inhabitants , was reduced in six months , by pestilence , to sixty . Disheartened by this fearful ca- lamity , they resolved to leave the country , and return to England . They therefore embarked on board some vessels ...
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... five days journey . He was the first visitant of the co- lony at Plymouth , and greatly surprised the inhabitants , by call- ing out as he entered their village , " Welcome Englishmen ! Welcome Englishmen ! " He had conversed with the ...
... five days journey . He was the first visitant of the co- lony at Plymouth , and greatly surprised the inhabitants , by call- ing out as he entered their village , " Welcome Englishmen ! Welcome Englishmen ! " He had conversed with the ...
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... five were annually chosen , the governour having a double vote . The number of assistants was afterwards increased to seven . The laws of the colony were enacted , and the affairs of government conducted , by these offi- cers for near ...
... five were annually chosen , the governour having a double vote . The number of assistants was afterwards increased to seven . The laws of the colony were enacted , and the affairs of government conducted , by these offi- cers for near ...
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... five and six hundred Indians lay bleeding on the ground , or smouldering in the ashes . • But though the victory was complete , the troops were now in great distress . Besides two killed , sixteen of their number were wounded . Their ...
... five and six hundred Indians lay bleeding on the ground , or smouldering in the ashes . • But though the victory was complete , the troops were now in great distress . Besides two killed , sixteen of their number were wounded . Their ...
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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...