The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Volume 4author, 1788 - United States |
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... fhall ever remember with the utmost gratitude , the high honor this day done me , by the honorable the house of delegates of Virginia . When I engaged in the noble cause of freedom and the United States , I devoted my- felf entirely to ...
... fhall ever remember with the utmost gratitude , the high honor this day done me , by the honorable the house of delegates of Virginia . When I engaged in the noble cause of freedom and the United States , I devoted my- felf entirely to ...
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... fhall be ever ready to testify my disapprobation of it . - The first example was furnished on your part , as appears by the lift of unhappy fufferers enclosed ; and it might have been expected , that the friends of the unfortunate ...
... fhall be ever ready to testify my disapprobation of it . - The first example was furnished on your part , as appears by the lift of unhappy fufferers enclosed ; and it might have been expected , that the friends of the unfortunate ...
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... fhall take the meafure upon myfelf ; " and gave directions accordingly . The event has shown , that the other route muft have proved fatal ; and that the junction of the light troops with the main army under Huger and Williams could not ...
... fhall take the meafure upon myfelf ; " and gave directions accordingly . The event has shown , that the other route muft have proved fatal ; and that the junction of the light troops with the main army under Huger and Williams could not ...
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... fhall avoid a general action if poffible : but I am afraid it will not be in my power . Our force is fo fmall and in fuch diftrefs , that I have little to hope , and every thing to fear . " The troops prefent and fit for action were ...
... fhall avoid a general action if poffible : but I am afraid it will not be in my power . Our force is fo fmall and in fuch diftrefs , that I have little to hope , and every thing to fear . " The troops prefent and fit for action were ...
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... fhall hurry me into a measure , that is not fuggested by prudence , or connects not with it the intereft of the fouthern department . " 10 . Lord Cornwallis not immediately urging his plan of . bringing on a general action , but moving ...
... fhall hurry me into a measure , that is not fuggested by prudence , or connects not with it the intereft of the fouthern department . " 10 . Lord Cornwallis not immediately urging his plan of . bringing on a general action , but moving ...
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Page 361 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 260 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 362 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 365 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Page 419 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Page 361 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Page 420 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Page 421 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Page 361 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 362 - Cauihouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.