Historical and Revolutionary Incidents of the Early Settlers of the United States: With Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Allen, Boone, Kenton, and Other Celebrated PioneersD. Rulison, 1861 - 416 páginas |
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... five and thirty waterfalls , the canoe is to be carried on the shoulders for leagues through thickest woods , or over roughest regions ; fifty times it was dragged by hand through shallows and rapids , over sharpest stones ; and thus ...
... five and thirty waterfalls , the canoe is to be carried on the shoulders for leagues through thickest woods , or over roughest regions ; fifty times it was dragged by hand through shallows and rapids , over sharpest stones ; and thus ...
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... was the success of that sagacious policy of the early Dutch governors of New Amsterdam , in securing the friendship and allegiance of the powerful and warlike Iroquois or Five Nations , established in REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS . 59.
... was the success of that sagacious policy of the early Dutch governors of New Amsterdam , in securing the friendship and allegiance of the powerful and warlike Iroquois or Five Nations , established in REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS . 59.
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... Five Nations , established in the north of New York . This alliance also , politically courted and nourished by the New England colonies , was for a long period successfully maintained ; opposing this formidable Indian confederacy as a ...
... Five Nations , established in the north of New York . This alliance also , politically courted and nourished by the New England colonies , was for a long period successfully maintained ; opposing this formidable Indian confederacy as a ...
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... Five Nations carried on war , for their hostility was directed with even greater fury against the Hurons and Wyandots , who dwelt along the St. Law- .rence and north of Lake Ontario , and who spoke dialects of the same language with ...
... Five Nations carried on war , for their hostility was directed with even greater fury against the Hurons and Wyandots , who dwelt along the St. Law- .rence and north of Lake Ontario , and who spoke dialects of the same language with ...
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... Five Nations , they expressed their determination to continue the war against Canada , but they could not be prevailed upon to lift the hatchet against their Indian brethren of the East . Reduced to extreme distress by the late ...
... Five Nations , they expressed their determination to continue the war against Canada , but they could not be prevailed upon to lift the hatchet against their Indian brethren of the East . Reduced to extreme distress by the late ...
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Página 218 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 233 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Página 218 - 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. " ' 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 191 - By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law; 7.
Página 235 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 242 - I do hereby in his Majesty's name offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Página 225 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Página 225 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate, indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, Sir, if turning from such thoughts I resume this comparative view once more.
Página 410 - thus far shalt thou go, and no further' — orders which she refused to revoke, after the alleged cause of their enactment had ceased ; because she persisted in the practice of impressing American seamen ; because she had instigated the Indians to commit hostilities against us; and because she refused indemnity for her past injuries upon our commerce.
Página 401 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The .immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.