The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Band 1C.P. Wayne, 1804 |
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... effects , and vast means employed in producing unimportant ends , we are in the ha- bit of bestowing on the recital of military actions , a degree of consideration proportioned to the numbers engaged in them . When the struggle has ...
... effects , and vast means employed in producing unimportant ends , we are in the ha- bit of bestowing on the recital of military actions , a degree of consideration proportioned to the numbers engaged in them . When the struggle has ...
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... effect it , several unsuc- cessful expeditions were made to the American In the mean time the fisheries of New- foundland were carried on to a considerable extent , by individuals of England , France , and other European nations ; whose ...
... effect it , several unsuc- cessful expeditions were made to the American In the mean time the fisheries of New- foundland were carried on to a considerable extent , by individuals of England , France , and other European nations ; whose ...
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... effect a reconciliation with the na- tives , one of whom , who had accompanied Amidas and Barlow to England , and who had distinguished himself by his unshaken attach- ment to the English , was christened , and styled lord of Dassa ...
... effect a reconciliation with the na- tives , one of whom , who had accompanied Amidas and Barlow to England , and who had distinguished himself by his unshaken attach- ment to the English , was christened , and styled lord of Dassa ...
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... effects , until they should pay a duty of two and one half per centum , ad valorem , if subjects , but of five per centum , if aliens . These taxes were to be applied , for twenty- one years , to the use of the adventurers , and ...
... effects , until they should pay a duty of two and one half per centum , ad valorem , if subjects , but of five per centum , if aliens . These taxes were to be applied , for twenty- one years , to the use of the adventurers , and ...
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... effect not less important . Their sense of imminent and common danger called forth and compelled submission to those talents which were fitted to the exigency , and best VOL . I. F CHAP . II . Calculated to extricate them from the ...
... effect not less important . Their sense of imminent and common danger called forth and compelled submission to those talents which were fitted to the exigency , and best VOL . I. F CHAP . II . Calculated to extricate them from the ...
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Seite 38 - Indians, within those parts of our colonies where, we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that, if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Seite 221 - ... to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Seite 37 - ... that no Governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Seite 268 - No aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects or their estates, on any pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
Seite 35 - ... all persons inhabiting' in, or resorting to, our said colonies, may confide in our royal protection for the enjoyment of the benefit of the laws of our realm of England...
Seite 38 - Bay company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the West and North West...
Seite 2 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Seite 85 - They were knit together in a strict and sacred bond, to take care of the good of each other and of the whole. It was not with them as with other men, whom small things could discourage, or small discontents cause to wish themselves again at home.
Seite 170 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...