Collections of the South-Carolina Historical Society, Band 4South Carolina Historical Society, 1887 |
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afterwards Anastatia arms arrived Artillery ashore Assembly assistance attack Augustine Battery Boats Camp at St Capt Captain Carolina Regiment Carolinians carried Castle Charleston Christopher Gadsden Colonel colonies Command Committee Commodore Congress Constitution Creek day Col Deponent Deserters desire Diego England Euchee Indians Expedition fired Forces Fort Diego free school Gadsden Gallies Garrison General's Governour Guns Highlanders honour Horses House Humble Servant hundred Indians Island JAMES OGLETHORPE John's John's River Land Letter liberty Lieut Lieutenant Majesty's Ships marched Massachusetts Matansas McKay McMaster men-of-war ment miles Moosa morning Mortar Negro Fort Negroes night North obliged officers Oglethorpe's Palmer Palmetto Hut Parish party Point Quartell pounders Prisoners proposed Province Provisions Rangers Returned River Rutledge Schooner sent Sloop Society South Carolina Spaniards Spanish Swivel Guns taken thence thousand tion told Town Troops Union Vanderdussen Volunteers WILLIAM BULL
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Seite 15 - I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 4 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Seite 16 - The great and trying question, however, was lost in the House of Representatives. So high were the feuds excited by this subject, that on its rejection business was suspended. Congress met and adjourned from day to day without doing anything ; the parties being too much out of temper to do business together.
Seite 16 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 1 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Seite 25 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted, as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 18 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation; amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 13 - This is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become general representatives of all of the same kind, and their names general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas.
Seite 83 - ... be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Seite 10 - Resolved, That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.