National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from ...Johnson, Fry, 1862 - 488 páginas |
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... ordered to be specially infans . Every man of a crowded argued . It thus came before the court audience appeared to me to go away , in Boston , where the merchants de- as I did , ready to take arms against termined to be heard in ...
... ordered to be specially infans . Every man of a crowded argued . It thus came before the court audience appeared to me to go away , in Boston , where the merchants de- as I did , ready to take arms against termined to be heard in ...
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... ordered by that body to commemorate the event . We must now follow the commander rapidly to another scene of operations , remembering that any detailed notice , however brief , of Washington's mili tary operations during the war , would ...
... ordered by that body to commemorate the event . We must now follow the commander rapidly to another scene of operations , remembering that any detailed notice , however brief , of Washington's mili tary operations during the war , would ...
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... ordered to take command of the fort in process of erec- tion on Sullivan's Island . It was being When he came to Sullivan's Island , where he found Moultrie with his fort well advanced , he , says the latter officer in his " Memoirs ...
... ordered to take command of the fort in process of erec- tion on Sullivan's Island . It was being When he came to Sullivan's Island , where he found Moultrie with his fort well advanced , he , says the latter officer in his " Memoirs ...
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... ordered by that body , but in the Palmetto seal of his own State - a device adopted after his defence - his victory has a lasting commemoration . In the military events in the State which succeeded his great battle , we find him always ...
... ordered by that body , but in the Palmetto seal of his own State - a device adopted after his defence - his victory has a lasting commemoration . In the military events in the State which succeeded his great battle , we find him always ...
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... ordered to be printed by the members . It bore the title , " A Summary View of the Rights of British America , " reached England , was taken up by the opposition , and , with some interpolations from Burke , passed through several ...
... ordered to be printed by the members . It bore the title , " A Summary View of the Rights of British America , " reached England , was taken up by the opposition , and , with some interpolations from Burke , passed through several ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affairs afterwards American appears appointed army arrival attack Bainbridge battle became Boston British brought called Captain captured Carolina character Charleston Clinton Colonel colony command Congress Constitution Cornwallis Court death Decatur defence duties early elected enemy engaged England father Fisher Ames force fortune France Franklin French frigate Fulton gallant gave George Clinton Gouverneur Morris Governor Hamilton Hancock Henry honor House Indians ington Jefferson John Adams Jones labors Lafayette land Laurens Legislature letter Madison Massachusetts ment military mind minister Morris Moultrie Mount Vernon nation negotiations officer Otis party passed Patrick Henry patriotic Philadelphia Pinckney political President prisoners Putnam received retired retreat Revolution Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams says scene seat sent Serapis ship sion sloop-of-war South Carolina spirit Sullivan's Island tion took treaty troops vessel Virginia Washington Williamsburg Wirt wounded York young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 371 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 154 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Página 85 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Página 438 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Página 239 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Página 25 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady who, in a dispute with her sister, said, ' I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right — il n'ya que moi qui a toujours raison.
Página 82 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Página 124 - 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; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Página 66 - 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.
Página 181 - We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear ; When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...