Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volum 1Harper & brothers, 1905 - 506 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxxv
... wounded him that the Father of his Country should misspell . Sparks's editions , therefore , overlay the originals with literary shellac and varnish , but he does not conceal the original grain . Himself a conscientious investigator , a ...
... wounded him that the Father of his Country should misspell . Sparks's editions , therefore , overlay the originals with literary shellac and varnish , but he does not conceal the original grain . Himself a conscientious investigator , a ...
Pàgina 8
... wounded , dying in Boston on the 24th . See BUNKER HILL . Abercrombie , JOHN JOSEPH , military officer ; born in Tennessee in 1802 ; was graduated at the United States Mili- tary Academy in 1822. Entering the 1st Infantry , he was its ...
... wounded , dying in Boston on the 24th . See BUNKER HILL . Abercrombie , JOHN JOSEPH , military officer ; born in Tennessee in 1802 ; was graduated at the United States Mili- tary Academy in 1822. Entering the 1st Infantry , he was its ...
Pàgina 15
... wounded - shot through the legs - and made a prisoner . Taken to the American headquarters on Bemis's Heights , his devoted wife , Lady Harriet , was permitted to pass through the lines and attend him . She was kindly received and ...
... wounded - shot through the legs - and made a prisoner . Taken to the American headquarters on Bemis's Heights , his devoted wife , Lady Harriet , was permitted to pass through the lines and attend him . She was kindly received and ...
Pàgina 19
... wounded . ' Keep on ! robbers and trai- tors ! " said the cacique . " In my province and in Apalacha you will be treated as you deserve . We will quarter and hang every captive on the highest tree . " And they did so . See DE SOTO and ...
... wounded . ' Keep on ! robbers and trai- tors ! " said the cacique . " In my province and in Apalacha you will be treated as you deserve . We will quarter and hang every captive on the highest tree . " And they did so . See DE SOTO and ...
Pàgina 20
... wounded and taken pris- oner at Gettysburg while serving in the Union army . Since 1872 he has become widely known by his humorous poems in German dialect , of which Leedle Yawcob Strauss and other Poems and Dialect Ballads are the most ...
... wounded and taken pris- oner at Gettysburg while serving in the Union army . Since 1872 he has become widely known by his humorous poems in German dialect , of which Leedle Yawcob Strauss and other Poems and Dialect Ballads are the most ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 37 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Pàgina 343 - And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.
Pàgina 456 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pàgina 343 - And that the oaths hereafter mentioned be taken by all persons of whom the oaths of allegiance and supremacy might be required by law instead of them ; and that the said oaths of allegiance and supremacy be abrogated. " I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary : " So help me God." " I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical that damnable doctrine and position,...
Pàgina 343 - That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal.
Pàgina 343 - And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises, as their undoubted rights and liberties ; and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings, to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises, ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example.
Pàgina 87 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Pàgina 423 - I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty — the cause of humanity.
Pàgina 456 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Pàgina 359 - ... hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices.