The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1861 |
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... regiment , beside occasionally acting as commissary . His church had at times served as hospital to the American soldier ; or shelter to the hastily assembled militia . Its bell was the tocsin of alarm ; from its pulpit he had many a ...
... regiment , beside occasionally acting as commissary . His church had at times served as hospital to the American soldier ; or shelter to the hastily assembled militia . Its bell was the tocsin of alarm ; from its pulpit he had many a ...
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... regiment , which acted with it , and the first regiment of artillery . The Baron De Kalb , now at the head of the Maryland divi- sion , was instructed to conduct this detachment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might ...
... regiment , which acted with it , and the first regiment of artillery . The Baron De Kalb , now at the head of the Maryland divi- sion , was instructed to conduct this detachment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might ...
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... regiments of the Connecticut line assembled on their parade by beat of drum , and declared their intention to march home bag and baggage , " or , at best , to gain subsistence at the point of the bayonet . " Colonel Meigs , while ...
... regiments of the Connecticut line assembled on their parade by beat of drum , and declared their intention to march home bag and baggage , " or , at best , to gain subsistence at the point of the bayonet . " Colonel Meigs , while ...
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... regiment of Queen's Rangers , with drawn swords and glittering helmets ; followed by British and Hessian infantry . * Signal guns and signal fires were rousing the country . The * Passages in the Hist . of Elizabethtown , Capt . W. C. ...
... regiment of Queen's Rangers , with drawn swords and glittering helmets ; followed by British and Hessian infantry . * Signal guns and signal fires were rousing the country . The * Passages in the Hist . of Elizabethtown , Capt . W. C. ...
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... regiment to which he was chaplain . His wife , however , remained at the parsonage with her two youngest chil- dren , confiding in the protection of Providence , and the human- ity of the enemy . When the sacking of the village took ...
... regiment to which he was chaplain . His wife , however , remained at the parsonage with her two youngest chil- dren , confiding in the protection of Providence , and the human- ity of the enemy . When the sacking of the village took ...
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Seite 270 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
Seite 453 - I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God ! who, besides a tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them...
Seite 386 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor?
Seite 401 - I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
Seite 450 - Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I cannot feel myself an unconcerned spectator. Yet, having happily assisted in bringing the ship into port, and having been fairly discharged, it is not my business to embark again on a sea of troubles.
Seite 383 - Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining.
Seite 458 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Seite 379 - On the following day another anonymous address was circulated, written in a more moderate tone, but to the same purport with the first, and affecting to construe the general orders into an approbation of the object sought ; only changing the day appointed for the meeting.
Seite 451 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all, and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept 90 life of from off the face of the earth.
Seite 109 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.