The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence, Volum 2Harper & Bros., 1852 - 30 pàgines |
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Pàgina 35
... interest , portraits of the most em- graces to aid her in the struggle for improve - inent women are introduced . These have been ment . The second era includes the period from the Birth of Christ to the year 1500 , when the Gospel had ...
... interest , portraits of the most em- graces to aid her in the struggle for improve - inent women are introduced . These have been ment . The second era includes the period from the Birth of Christ to the year 1500 , when the Gospel had ...
Pàgina 35
... interest in the study of those languages than any I have yet used . [ From JOHN J. OWEN , Principal of the Free Academy , N. Y. ] I have examined with much attention the First Book in Latin of Professors M'Clintock and Crooks , and am ...
... interest in the study of those languages than any I have yet used . [ From JOHN J. OWEN , Principal of the Free Academy , N. Y. ] I have examined with much attention the First Book in Latin of Professors M'Clintock and Crooks , and am ...
Pàgina 35
... interest of the Americans to con- tinue faithful allies and warm friends . Surely that can never be effected by fleets and ar- mies . Instead of meditating conquest and exhausting our strength in an ineffectual struggle , we should ...
... interest of the Americans to con- tinue faithful allies and warm friends . Surely that can never be effected by fleets and ar- mies . Instead of meditating conquest and exhausting our strength in an ineffectual struggle , we should ...
Pàgina 35
... interest except as showing the locality of the forts of the Revolution . XIII . At Nook's HILL , near South Boston Bridge , the last breast - work was thrown up by the Americans before the flight of the British . It was the menacing ...
... interest except as showing the locality of the forts of the Revolution . XIII . At Nook's HILL , near South Boston Bridge , the last breast - work was thrown up by the Americans before the flight of the British . It was the menacing ...
Pàgina 35
... interest . Here was the residence of Gov- ernor Trumbull , whose name and deeds are worthily associated with those of Washington , on the records of our war for independence . No man during that contest acted with more Jon Frumbull 1 ...
... interest . Here was the residence of Gov- ernor Trumbull , whose name and deeds are worthily associated with those of Washington , on the records of our war for independence . No man during that contest acted with more Jon Frumbull 1 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 496 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Pàgina 497 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Pàgina 272 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Pàgina 496 - ... we must fight! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Pàgina 496 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Pàgina 272 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us . For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
Pàgina 273 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Pàgina 273 - For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world; For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent; For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury; For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses...
Pàgina 280 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Pàgina 280 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise, the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.