The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, Volume 22W. Abbatt, 1916 |
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Pagina 16
... Army , and giving a fatal blow to our affairs during all the subsequent winter , instead of remaining in a state of torpid inactivity and per- mitting us to hover about their quarters , when we had scarcely troops sufficient to mount ...
... Army , and giving a fatal blow to our affairs during all the subsequent winter , instead of remaining in a state of torpid inactivity and per- mitting us to hover about their quarters , when we had scarcely troops sufficient to mount ...
Pagina 17
... Army by their conduct much faster than Howe and all his Army can possibly do by fighting us . By this means , many of the best of our officers are leaving the Army dayly , which , if not prevented , will reuen the army soon . Sir , I do ...
... Army by their conduct much faster than Howe and all his Army can possibly do by fighting us . By this means , many of the best of our officers are leaving the Army dayly , which , if not prevented , will reuen the army soon . Sir , I do ...
Pagina 21
... army virtu- ally ceased to exist thereafter . In March , 1865 , Johnston was again opposing Sherman , this time in the Carolinas , and it must have been in one of the closing battles of the war that Little Giffen lost his life . Miss ...
... army virtu- ally ceased to exist thereafter . In March , 1865 , Johnston was again opposing Sherman , this time in the Carolinas , and it must have been in one of the closing battles of the war that Little Giffen lost his life . Miss ...
Pagina 22
... jumped into popular favor . At all encampments of Grand Army veterans it soon became indispensable . But General Sherman never could abide it , always ex- pressing his preference for the earlier poem , " Sherman's 22 POEMS OF OUR CIVIL WAR.
... jumped into popular favor . At all encampments of Grand Army veterans it soon became indispensable . But General Sherman never could abide it , always ex- pressing his preference for the earlier poem , " Sherman's 22 POEMS OF OUR CIVIL WAR.
Pagina 25
... army and given at Cambridge on January 20 , 1776 . Under Washington's signature appears a subsequent indorsement trans- ferring the captain to the command of the Hancock , another armed schooner . This was signed on September 3 , 1776 ...
... army and given at Cambridge on January 20 , 1776 . Under Washington's signature appears a subsequent indorsement trans- ferring the captain to the command of the Hancock , another armed schooner . This was signed on September 3 , 1776 ...
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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.