A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes In: the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, 1832, Volume 1 |
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... - Yankee Wit - Arrive at Boston . CHAP . XIII . Description of Boston- Washington's Statue - Museum - Fa- neuil Hall - Navy Yard - Bunker's Hill - Harvard College- 1188-205 Mill - dam - Franklin - Leave Boston - Colonel viii CONTENTS .
... - Yankee Wit - Arrive at Boston . CHAP . XIII . Description of Boston- Washington's Statue - Museum - Fa- neuil Hall - Navy Yard - Bunker's Hill - Harvard College- 1188-205 Mill - dam - Franklin - Leave Boston - Colonel viii CONTENTS .
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... hill , 100 feet above the level of the river , and 50 above the highest part of the city . They contain nearly twenty millions of gallons ; and the present consumption of water does not exceed two millions , and in the winter months one ...
... hill , 100 feet above the level of the river , and 50 above the highest part of the city . They contain nearly twenty millions of gallons ; and the present consumption of water does not exceed two millions , and in the winter months one ...
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... HILL . BYRON . At six A. M. , on the 13th of June , I embarked in one of the " Citizens ' Union Line " steamers , and proceeded down the Delaware at the spanking rate of fifteen knots an hour . A few minutes after I had been on board ...
... HILL . BYRON . At six A. M. , on the 13th of June , I embarked in one of the " Citizens ' Union Line " steamers , and proceeded down the Delaware at the spanking rate of fifteen knots an hour . A few minutes after I had been on board ...
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... hills in rear of it , and presenting a more picturesque appearance than Philadelphia , being interspersed with many domes , towers , and lofty monuments . Numerous pretty country residences , too , on the rising ground in the vicinity ...
... hills in rear of it , and presenting a more picturesque appearance than Philadelphia , being interspersed with many domes , towers , and lofty monuments . Numerous pretty country residences , too , on the rising ground in the vicinity ...
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... before he even ventured over them at a foot pace . An American driver allows his horses to take their own time in ascending a hill , so that they only move some little ; G but , be it ever so steep , not a A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH . 81.
... before he even ventured over them at a foot pace . An American driver allows his horses to take their own time in ascending a hill , so that they only move some little ; G but , be it ever so steep , not a A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH . 81.
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Page 470 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 471 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 471 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 38 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 472 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 472 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 466 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 469 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 473 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 474 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...