Lives of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and Statesmen of America: Confined Exclusively to Those who Have Signalized Themselves in Either Capacity, in the Revolutionary War which Obtained the Independence of Their CountryJ. Gladding, 1834 - 400 páginas |
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... Randolph , Peyton 340 192 Reed , Joseph 345 Hawley , Joseph 202 Sergeant , Jon . Dickinson 352 Henry , Patrick 207 Sherman , Roger 354 Hopkinson , Francis 225 Stark , John 356 Howard , John Eager 228 Steuben , Frederick Wm . 370 ...
... Randolph , Peyton 340 192 Reed , Joseph 345 Hawley , Joseph 202 Sergeant , Jon . Dickinson 352 Henry , Patrick 207 Sherman , Roger 354 Hopkinson , Francis 225 Stark , John 356 Howard , John Eager 228 Steuben , Frederick Wm . 370 ...
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... Randolph , a frigate of thirty - two guns . With his usual activity , he employed every exertion to get her ready for sea . The difficulty . of procuring American seamen at that time , obliged him , in order to man his ship , to take a ...
... Randolph , a frigate of thirty - two guns . With his usual activity , he employed every exertion to get her ready for sea . The difficulty . of procuring American seamen at that time , obliged him , in order to man his ship , to take a ...
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... Randolph , as soon as he perceived her , made all the sail he could from her , but finding he could not escape , he hove to , and kept up a constant fire , until the Randolph had bore down upon him , and was preparing for a broadside ...
... Randolph , as soon as he perceived her , made all the sail he could from her , but finding he could not escape , he hove to , and kept up a constant fire , until the Randolph had bore down upon him , and was preparing for a broadside ...
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... Randolph . As soon as they got over the bar , they stood to the eastward , in expectation of falling in with the British cruisers . The next day they retook a dismasted ship from New England ; as she had no cargo on board , they took ...
... Randolph . As soon as they got over the bar , they stood to the eastward , in expectation of falling in with the British cruisers . The next day they retook a dismasted ship from New England ; as she had no cargo on board , they took ...
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... Randolph . She was then , for the first time , discovered to be a two- decker . After several questions asked and answered , as she was ranging up alongside the Randolph , and had got on her weather quarter , lieutenant Barnes , of that ...
... Randolph . She was then , for the first time , discovered to be a two- decker . After several questions asked and answered , as she was ranging up alongside the Randolph , and had got on her weather quarter , lieutenant Barnes , of that ...
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Página 215 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room, for hope. If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending' ; if we mean not basely to abandon, the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never, to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained', we must fight,! I repeat it,, sir, WE...
Página 237 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...
Página 214 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Página 158 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Página 213 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Página 158 - During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 139 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 42 - ... you have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Página 41 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place, the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war.
Página 376 - 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.