The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, Volume 22W. Abbatt, 1916 |
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Pagina 16
... at Valley Forge , Pa . , Colonel William Shepard , Fourth Massachusetts Regiment of the line , wrote to Captain David Mosley , Westfield , as follows , the letter being found in vol . , 174 , series 2 , Massachusetts.
... at Valley Forge , Pa . , Colonel William Shepard , Fourth Massachusetts Regiment of the line , wrote to Captain David Mosley , Westfield , as follows , the letter being found in vol . , 174 , series 2 , Massachusetts.
Pagina 18
... Captain Christopher , was a military man , a fourth sergeant of the " Ancients " in 1727 and a captain of the Third Company of the Third Massachusetts Regiment at the first siege of Louisburg , in 1745. He died the following year ...
... Captain Christopher , was a military man , a fourth sergeant of the " Ancients " in 1727 and a captain of the Third Company of the Third Massachusetts Regiment at the first siege of Louisburg , in 1745. He died the following year ...
Pagina 19
... captain in 1763 and 1767. He became major of the Boston Regiment in 1765 and was lieutenant colonel from 1767 to 1771 and colonel April 10 , 1776. He was commissioned colonel of the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment November 19 , 1776. He ...
... captain in 1763 and 1767. He became major of the Boston Regiment in 1765 and was lieutenant colonel from 1767 to 1771 and colonel April 10 , 1776. He was commissioned colonel of the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment November 19 , 1776. He ...
Pagina 21
... Captain's answer : " Of eighty and five Giffen and I are left alive . " We may suppose this was written after the battle of Nashville , December 15 , 16 , 1864 , which was so disastrous that Hood's army virtu- ally ceased to exist ...
... Captain's answer : " Of eighty and five Giffen and I are left alive . " We may suppose this was written after the battle of Nashville , December 15 , 16 , 1864 , which was so disastrous that Hood's army virtu- ally ceased to exist ...
Pagina 25
... captain , took Presi- dent John Adams , when the latter had been appointed minister pleni- potentiary of the United States to France , from Quincy on board the ship which the captain then commanded , starting within a short dis- tance ...
... captain , took Presi- dent John Adams , when the latter had been appointed minister pleni- potentiary of the United States to France , from Quincy on board the ship which the captain then commanded , starting within a short dis- tance ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 87 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Pagina 86 - States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field ; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Pagina 86 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping.
Pagina 109 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Pagina 88 - Tis, finally, the Man, who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye, Or left unthought-of in obscurity, — Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not — Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won...
Pagina 234 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Pagina 152 - ... vessel. I see them, escaped from these perils, pursuing their all but desperate undertaking, and landed at last, after a five months...
Pagina 110 - I quit not the land of my fathers but with my life. In those woods where I bent my youthful bow, I will still hunt the deer. Over yonder waters I will still glide unrestrained in my bark canoe. By those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food.
Pagina 234 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Pagina 68 - After taking Fort Duquesne," said he, "I am to proceed to Niagara; and having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.