The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, Volume 22W. Abbatt, 1916 |
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Pagina 23
... claimed by Lamar Fontaine , who gave very plausible details of its alleged composition on August 2 , 1861 , while he was at Fairfax Court House , Virginia , in Company I of the Second Virginia Cavalry . It still appears in Southern ...
... claimed by Lamar Fontaine , who gave very plausible details of its alleged composition on August 2 , 1861 , while he was at Fairfax Court House , Virginia , in Company I of the Second Virginia Cavalry . It still appears in Southern ...
Pagina 34
... claimed that such a government as Washington advocated would give to itself too much power . Jefferson was a man who was intensely practical and active , the master of organizations and expedients , and he always had the courage of his ...
... claimed that such a government as Washington advocated would give to itself too much power . Jefferson was a man who was intensely practical and active , the master of organizations and expedients , and he always had the courage of his ...
Pagina 39
... claimed for his country all his eyes beheld ! literally " claim- ing everything in sight " The Indians told him of the fresh - water seas and the great river to the westward : of the great forest to the north and the fur - bearing ...
... claimed for his country all his eyes beheld ! literally " claim- ing everything in sight " The Indians told him of the fresh - water seas and the great river to the westward : of the great forest to the north and the fur - bearing ...
Pagina 41
... claimed by Massachusetts , New Hampshire and New York . As it was unsettled but lay in the direct . pathway between the English settlements in Massachusetts and the French in Canada it was often called the bloody Vermont trail . Eng ...
... claimed by Massachusetts , New Hampshire and New York . As it was unsettled but lay in the direct . pathway between the English settlements in Massachusetts and the French in Canada it was often called the bloody Vermont trail . Eng ...
Pagina 42
... claimed the territory of Vermont . In 1740 the claims of Massachusetts and New Hampshire were settled by making the boundary line three miles north of and parallel with the Merrimac to a point opposite the Great Falls ( Lowell ) and ...
... claimed the territory of Vermont . In 1740 the claims of Massachusetts and New Hampshire were settled by making the boundary line three miles north of and parallel with the Merrimac to a point opposite the Great Falls ( Lowell ) and ...
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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.