Elements of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of SchoolsFrom Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1808 - 223 Seiten |
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... winter and fpring of 1775 , the ministry , headed by lord North , procured an act of parliament to prohi- bit the New - England colonies from carrying on the fifhe- ries , and from trading with the British poffeffions in Europe and the ...
... winter and fpring of 1775 , the ministry , headed by lord North , procured an act of parliament to prohi- bit the New - England colonies from carrying on the fifhe- ries , and from trading with the British poffeffions in Europe and the ...
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... winter , to march his troops into Boston , and dif- lodge the enemy . But a council of war advised not to make the attempt .. The mode of attack was therefore varied .. For the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy a fevere ...
... winter , to march his troops into Boston , and dif- lodge the enemy . But a council of war advised not to make the attempt .. The mode of attack was therefore varied .. For the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy a fevere ...
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... winter , by a party of Britifh troops and royalifts , to penetrate into North Carolina , but it was repelled with bravery by the militia . In June the Bri- tifh fhips were brought to bear upon Sullivan's island , which commands the ...
... winter , by a party of Britifh troops and royalifts , to penetrate into North Carolina , but it was repelled with bravery by the militia . In June the Bri- tifh fhips were brought to bear upon Sullivan's island , which commands the ...
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... winter . 59. Operations at New York . As foon as Boston was evacuated , general Lee had been fent to New - York to repel the British forces , which general Washington sup .. pofed , would be directed to occupy that important and central ...
... winter . 59. Operations at New York . As foon as Boston was evacuated , general Lee had been fent to New - York to repel the British forces , which general Washington sup .. pofed , would be directed to occupy that important and central ...
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... winter at Brunswick and Amboy , where they were watched by the American army and the active militia of New - Jersey . The troops in the American fervice how- ever were few in number , not more than fifteen hundred , who kept in check ...
... winter at Brunswick and Amboy , where they were watched by the American army and the active militia of New - Jersey . The troops in the American fervice how- ever were few in number , not more than fifteen hundred , who kept in check ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 221 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Seite 213 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
Seite 207 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my...
Seite 220 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite 220 - It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to...
Seite 214 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Seite 210 - But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...
Seite 208 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite 214 - HOWEVER combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Seite 216 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.