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, Band 4author, 1788 |
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... resolved- " That five fuitable per- fons be appointed and authorized to open a fubfcription for a loan of 30,000 dollars , for the support of fuch of the citizens of South Carolina and Georgia , as have been driven from their country ...
... resolved- " That five fuitable per- fons be appointed and authorized to open a fubfcription for a loan of 30,000 dollars , for the support of fuch of the citizens of South Carolina and Georgia , as have been driven from their country ...
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... resolved to honor him with a British standard and a gold medal ; and voted their thanks to the different corps and their commanders . After the action , the Americans retired to their for- mer position on the High Hills of Santee , and ...
... resolved to honor him with a British standard and a gold medal ; and voted their thanks to the different corps and their commanders . After the action , the Americans retired to their for- mer position on the High Hills of Santee , and ...
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... resolved on the 3d of September , to pre- sent the America , a 74 gun fhip , to the chevalier de la Luzerne for the fervice of the French king . The fleet failed with the army on the 29th of December . On the 20th of December , the ...
... resolved on the 3d of September , to pre- sent the America , a 74 gun fhip , to the chevalier de la Luzerne for the fervice of the French king . The fleet failed with the army on the 29th of December . On the 20th of December , the ...
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... resolved to follow his example , by re- turning to their citizenship , they think they may with propriety denominate themselves The Society of the Cin- cinnati . The following principles fhall be immutable- an inceffant attention to ...
... resolved to follow his example , by re- turning to their citizenship , they think they may with propriety denominate themselves The Society of the Cin- cinnati . The following principles fhall be immutable- an inceffant attention to ...
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... RESOLVED , THAT HAT the preceding Conftitution be laid before the United States in Congress affembled , and that it is the opinion of this Convention , that it should afterwards be fubmitted to a Convention of Delegates , chofen in each ...
... RESOLVED , THAT HAT the preceding Conftitution be laid before the United States in Congress affembled , and that it is the opinion of this Convention , that it should afterwards be fubmitted to a Convention of Delegates , chofen in each ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.