 | 1817 - 526 pàgines
...been the country of my fond election from the age of thii* teen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom the...first time it was displayed on the Delaware ; and I have attended it with veneration ever since, on the ocean. I see it respected even here in spite... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pàgines
...his sword only in support of the dignity of freedom. America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom the first time it was displayed on the Delaware;... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 pàgines
...been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when 1 first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom,...the first time it was displayed on the Delaware, and I have attended it with veneration, ever since, on thc ocean." Whatever may have been his motives,... | |
 | 1830 - 574 pàgines
...his sword only in support of the dignity of freedom. America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware,... | |
 | 1820 - 474 pàgines
...sword only in support of the dignity of freedom. America 'has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...of which ship, to use his own language in one of his letters, " he had the honor to hoist, with his own hands, the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware." Soon after this, we find . Jones in command of the Providence, mouhtuig 12 four-pounders, with d coinpleineiit... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 566 pàgines
...been the country of my fond election, from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the river Delaware ; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. I see it respected... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 572 pàgines
...his sword only in support of the dignity of freedom. America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 358 pàgines
...his sword only in support of the dignity of freedom. America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware;... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pàgines
...ship, to use his' own language in one of his letter*, " he had the honor to hoist, with his own bonds, the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware." Soon .after this, we find Jones in command of the Providence, mounting 12 four-pounders, with a complement... | |
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has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist, with my own hands, the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed on the Delaware, and I have attended it with veneration ever since... 
