The Germans in Colonial TimesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1900 - 314 pàgines This book covers the early German-American experience for those who emigrated, including settlement patterns and the diffusion of German culture into American society. The author culminates this cultural exchange with the German importance in the formation of the American Republic, and as a critical part of national memory. |
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Pàgina 102 - And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel...
Pàgina 227 - I am truly very unequal to such an undertaking on many accounts. And you see I labor under the weight of many years, and am borne down with great infirmities of body; yet old and weak as I am, I should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations set on foot by the government to deprive a people of the right of remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary attempts...
Pàgina 201 - I well remember that, when a little boy, the family were sometimes waked up in the dead of night by an express with a report that the Indians were at hand. The express came softly to the door, or back window, and by a gentle tapping waked the family.
Pàgina 31 - Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner ? viz., to be sold or made a slave for all the time of his life ? How fearful and faint-hearted are many at sea, when they see a strange vessel, being afraid it should be a Turk, and they should be taken, and sold for slaves into Turkey.
Pàgina 30 - New forest homes beyond the mighty sea, There undisturbed and free To live as brothers of one family. What pains and cares befell, What trials and what fears, Remember, and wherein we have done well...
Pàgina 31 - Now, though they are black, we cannot conceive there is more liberty to have them slaves, as it is to have other white ones.
Pàgina 201 - All this was done with the utmost dispatch and the silence of death ; the greatest care was taken not to awaken the youngest child ; to the rest it was enough to say "Indian," and not a whimper was heard afterwards.
Pàgina 263 - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Pàgina 206 - Protestants, and in general, strong, hardy men accustomed to the climate, it was judged that a regiment of good and faithful soldiers might be raised out of them, particularly proper to oppose the French ; but to this end it was necessary to appoint some officers, especially subalterns, who understood military discipline and could speak the German language...
Pàgina 17 - Give peace in our time, O Lord. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou O God.