Life of George Washington, Volum 1Putnam, 1857 |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abercrombie advance affairs alarm American Amherst arms army arrived artillery Assembly attack Boston Braam Braddock British brother camp campaign Captain Colonel colonies command conduct Congress council Creek Croghan Crown Point Cumberland Custis defense detachment Duquesne duty encamped enemy England English expedition fire force Fort Cumberland Fort Duquesne forts French frontier Gage garrison George Croghan Gist Governor Dinwiddie guns half-king honor horses House of Burgesses Hugh Mercer hundred Indian ington Joncaire king Lake George land letter Logstown Lord Botetourt Lord Fairfax Lord Loudoun Louisburg mand ment miles military militia Montcalm Mount Vernon mountains night officers Ohio orders Parliament party Pennsylvania Potomac province received regiment reply retreat returned river road sachem savages scouts sent ships Sir William Johnson soldiers spirit thousand tion took town traders tribes troops Venango Virginia warriors Wash Washington wilderness William Williamsburg Winchester Wolfe wounded York
Passatges populars
Pàgina 426 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Pàgina 227 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Pàgina 366 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pàgina 88 - G they would do it ; for that, although they were sensible the English could raise two men for their one, yet they knew their motions were too slow and dilatory to prevent any undertaking of theirs. They pretend to have an undoubted right to the river from a discovery made by one La Salle...
Pàgina 102 - do you go home; and, as we are tired, we will follow your track in the morning, and here is a cake of bread for you, and you must give us meat in the morning.
Pàgina 251 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Pàgina 365 - They had not only a respect, but an affection for Great Britain ; for its laws; its customs, and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce.
Pàgina 371 - We have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to parliament. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufactures, remains to be tried.
Pàgina 196 - that instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every mole hill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles.
Pàgina 377 - Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, I have heard of your resolves, and augur ill of their effects. You have made it my duty to dissolve you, and you are dissolved accordingly.