Three Years in North America, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1833 - 544 páginas |
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... England , William Penn's treaty with the Indians , the Assembly in Philadelphia at which the Declaration of Independence was signed , the surrender of General Burgoyne , the surrender of Lord Cornwallis , and the COLONEL TRUMBULL ...
... England , William Penn's treaty with the Indians , the Assembly in Philadelphia at which the Declaration of Independence was signed , the surrender of General Burgoyne , the surrender of Lord Cornwallis , and the COLONEL TRUMBULL ...
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... England ; and when he was a pupil of the late Benjamin West , he was apprehended , and sent to the Tower , on the ground that he was a spy . He has written the following curious account of his apprehension and detention , which I the ...
... England ; and when he was a pupil of the late Benjamin West , he was apprehended , and sent to the Tower , on the ground that he was a spy . He has written the following curious account of his apprehension and detention , which I the ...
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... England , in opposition to Mr. Webster . Mr. Livingstone is a man far advanced in life , ex- tremely acute , and very able , —he is well known as the author of the Louisianian Code of Laws . It is men- tioned , in praise of his ...
... England , in opposition to Mr. Webster . Mr. Livingstone is a man far advanced in life , ex- tremely acute , and very able , —he is well known as the author of the Louisianian Code of Laws . It is men- tioned , in praise of his ...
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... England , instead of returning thanks to his officers , as the British did to those who commanded at Washington for destroying a building not devoted to military purposes , he sent them to gaol . The Frenchmen had landed on the ...
... England , instead of returning thanks to his officers , as the British did to those who commanded at Washington for destroying a building not devoted to military purposes , he sent them to gaol . The Frenchmen had landed on the ...
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... England , he was not at war with mankind . He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work with presents . For The library , and a great part of the state papers of the nation , were destroyed with the public buildings . I ...
... England , he was not at war with mankind . He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work with presents . For The library , and a great part of the state papers of the nation , were destroyed with the public buildings . I ...
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Página 186 - The sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace The big ha' -bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship GOD !
Página 186 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Página 187 - From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God'; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Página 142 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Página 34 - During almost fifteen centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits ? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy ; ignorance and servility in the laity ; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
Página 32 - If all men are by nature equally free and independent," all men are to be considered as entering into society on equal conditions; as relinquishing no more, and therefore retaining no less, one than another, of their natural rights. Above all, are they to be considered as retaining an " equal title to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience.
Página 186 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing...
Página 113 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 234 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Página 31 - It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The free of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.