The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, 第 1 卷James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... discovered , many of the voyages of English merchants and captains were made profitable by attacks upon Spanish ships and Spanish settlements . In 1577 Sir Francis Drake set sail from England with five vessels ; XII THE AMERICAN NATION .
... discovered , many of the voyages of English merchants and captains were made profitable by attacks upon Spanish ships and Spanish settlements . In 1577 Sir Francis Drake set sail from England with five vessels ; XII THE AMERICAN NATION .
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... attack . Cannon frowned from the walls of many , and thus , under the specious pre- text of protection against the Indians , the French had guarded and secured every step in advance , even to the valley of La Belle Riviere , as they had ...
... attack . Cannon frowned from the walls of many , and thus , under the specious pre- text of protection against the Indians , the French had guarded and secured every step in advance , even to the valley of La Belle Riviere , as they had ...
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... attack upon the friendly Indians at Piqua , returned to Virginia without having even made an attempt to fulfill his mission . This placed the Governor and the Ohio company in a quandary . For a long time no one could be found , willing ...
... attack upon the friendly Indians at Piqua , returned to Virginia without having even made an attempt to fulfill his mission . This placed the Governor and the Ohio company in a quandary . For a long time no one could be found , willing ...
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... attacking the American force , and , on the heels of this second message , a report that the French were crossing the river in force , at a point but eighteen miles distant . Washington at once retired to ... attack . 32 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... attacking the American force , and , on the heels of this second message , a report that the French were crossing the river in force , at a point but eighteen miles distant . Washington at once retired to ... attack . 32 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... attack . Nothing of moment occurred on that night , or during the following day , save that news came that La Force , with a body of French numbering fifty men , had been seen prowling in the neighborhood . At night came another message ...
... attack . Nothing of moment occurred on that night , or during the following day , save that news came that La Force , with a body of French numbering fifty men , had been seen prowling in the neighborhood . At night came another message ...
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第 529 頁 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
第 264 頁 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
第 371 頁 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
第 346 頁 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
第 228 頁 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which, to me, seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country.
第 155 頁 - Sir ; A letter, which I received last night, contained the following paragraph; " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
第 261 頁 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
第 228 頁 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.
第 88 頁 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
第 119 頁 - Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever.