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... passed 27th April , 1798 , an additional regiment of artillerists and engineers is ordered to be raised by voluntary en- listments , for five years . Eighty - eight thousand dollars appro- priated therefor . By an act passed May 28th ...
... passed 27th April , 1798 , an additional regiment of artillerists and engineers is ordered to be raised by voluntary en- listments , for five years . Eighty - eight thousand dollars appro- priated therefor . By an act passed May 28th ...
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... of the United States , passed July 16 , 1798 , the President is authorized to raise , in addition to the foregoing military establishment , twelve regiments of infan- try , and six troops of light dragoons , to 10 THE AMERICAN ARMY .
... of the United States , passed July 16 , 1798 , the President is authorized to raise , in addition to the foregoing military establishment , twelve regiments of infan- try , and six troops of light dragoons , to 10 THE AMERICAN ARMY .
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... passed March 3 , 1799 , it is enacted , that a regiment of infantry shall be composed of one lieutenant - colonel - command- ant , two majors , one adjutant , one quarter - master , and one pay- master , each being a lieutenant ; one ...
... passed March 3 , 1799 , it is enacted , that a regiment of infantry shall be composed of one lieutenant - colonel - command- ant , two majors , one adjutant , one quarter - master , and one pay- master , each being a lieutenant ; one ...
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... passed the 3d of March , 1799 , for the better organi- zation of the troops of the United States , each non - commissioned officer , private , artificer , and musician , who shall hereafter be en- listed for the army of the United ...
... passed the 3d of March , 1799 , for the better organi- zation of the troops of the United States , each non - commissioned officer , private , artificer , and musician , who shall hereafter be en- listed for the army of the United ...
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... passed under our own eyes , or express an opinion upon the merits of a picture at our own fire - sides , until it has been tried in the ordeal of Fdinburgh or London criticism . It comports with the national pride , as well as the ...
... passed under our own eyes , or express an opinion upon the merits of a picture at our own fire - sides , until it has been tried in the ordeal of Fdinburgh or London criticism . It comports with the national pride , as well as the ...
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American Andromache appears army banks beautiful Bible boat boiler Brevets caciques called captain character chinampas Cholula Colonel command Cottagers of Glenburnie Covenanters dollars per month earth enemy engine English Evandale eyes favour feel French gentlemen give gold Granville Sharp hand heart heaven honour horses hundred inhabitants John July July 14 June 14 king labour land leagues letters Lieutenants Lord Maj bvt manner master means ment Mexico miles mind mineralogy Montezuma nature never observed officers Old Mortality opinion Pernambuco persons Phillips political PORT FOLIO present principles province Pyrrhus racter received Recife rendered residence respect river says sent slaves soon spirit thee thing thou thousand tion town translation United whole word writer Yellow Fever
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Página 123 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Página 122 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página 259 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 156 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Página 260 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Página 511 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 259 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame...
Página 119 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Página 259 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 433 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.