The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of AmericaM'Carty & White, 1809 - 239 páginas |
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... to supply the people on board with provisions , but annoyed them with a number of riflemen who were placed in houses near the ships , and inhumanly aimed at , and kil- G 2.- WASHINGTON . 77 This memorial of departed valour and vir- ...
... to supply the people on board with provisions , but annoyed them with a number of riflemen who were placed in houses near the ships , and inhumanly aimed at , and kil- G 2.- WASHINGTON . 77 This memorial of departed valour and vir- ...
Página 78
... ships , and inhumanly aimed at , and kil- led several persons on board . Exasperated at their conduct , Lord Dunmore ordered a party to land under cover of a man of war , and set fire to the town . Thus Norfolk was reduced to ashes ...
... ships , and inhumanly aimed at , and kil- led several persons on board . Exasperated at their conduct , Lord Dunmore ordered a party to land under cover of a man of war , and set fire to the town . Thus Norfolk was reduced to ashes ...
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... ships , which were , notwithstanding , several times in dan- ger of sticking fast . The next obstacle was a strong fort on Sullivan's Island , six miles east from Charleston ; which , though not completely finished , was very strong ...
... ships , which were , notwithstanding , several times in dan- ger of sticking fast . The next obstacle was a strong fort on Sullivan's Island , six miles east from Charleston ; which , though not completely finished , was very strong ...
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... ships and the three 28 gun frigates came up and began a severe fire . The three frigates were ordered to take their station between Charleston and the fort , in order to enfilade the batteries , and cut off the communication with the ...
... ships and the three 28 gun frigates came up and began a severe fire . The three frigates were ordered to take their station between Charleston and the fort , in order to enfilade the batteries , and cut off the communication with the ...
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... judged to have been considera- ble , but was reported to be only ten men kil- led , and twenty - two wounded . Before morning , the ships had retired about two H miles distant from the island ; and in a few WASHINGTON . 83.
... judged to have been considera- ble , but was reported to be only ten men kil- led , and twenty - two wounded . Before morning , the ships had retired about two H miles distant from the island ; and in a few WASHINGTON . 83.
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Página 206 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Página 217 - ... infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Página 205 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country — that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Página 197 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 213 - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 194 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página 218 - I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good — that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism — this hope will be a full recompense for...
Página 217 - ... establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Página 199 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the west can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Página 211 - ... the payment of debts there must be revenue ; that to have revenue there must be taxes ; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the' proper objects, (which is always a choice of difficulties,) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in- the measures for obtaining revenue which the public...