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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... use means for obtaining the releafe and ex- change of the honorable Henry Laurens , [ the lieut . co- lonel's father ] the news of whofe commitment to the Tower had reached them . Means were taken to im- prefs the chevalier de la ...
... use means for obtaining the releafe and ex- change of the honorable Henry Laurens , [ the lieut . co- lonel's father ] the news of whofe commitment to the Tower had reached them . Means were taken to im- prefs the chevalier de la ...
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... use of the French forces . While this deception was playing off against Sir Henry Clinton , the allied army croffed the North river on the 24th , and pushed for Philadel- phia , where they arrived on the 30th about three o'clock in the ...
... use of the French forces . While this deception was playing off against Sir Henry Clinton , the allied army croffed the North river on the 24th , and pushed for Philadel- phia , where they arrived on the 30th about three o'clock in the ...
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... use of the United States , be upon their arrival in any of the ports of these United States , delivered to the order of the board of war , who are hereby empowered and di- rected to take charge and direction of the fame : -That all the ...
... use of the United States , be upon their arrival in any of the ports of these United States , delivered to the order of the board of war , who are hereby empowered and di- rected to take charge and direction of the fame : -That all the ...
Page 166
... use of to levy contributions : but I believe there are no instances , where the inhabitants are punished capi- tally , for breach of parole given under these circum- ftances , especially while the two powers are contending for empire ...
... use of to levy contributions : but I believe there are no instances , where the inhabitants are punished capi- tally , for breach of parole given under these circum- ftances , especially while the two powers are contending for empire ...
Page 189
... use of waggons , from the great number of large rivers which interfect the country , there will be a total want of provifions . This province has been fo exhaufted , that fubfiftence must be drawn from a diftance , and that can only be ...
... use of waggons , from the great number of large rivers which interfect the country , there will be a total want of provifions . This province has been fo exhaufted , that fubfiftence must be drawn from a diftance , and that can only be ...
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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.