A History of the United States of America: From the First Discovery to the Fourth of March 1825R. Robbins, 1825 - 422 頁 |
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第 18 頁
... attack with incredible fury , and , at the same time , uttered their appalling war whoop . Those whom they had taken captive they often tortured , with every variety of cruelty , and to their dying agonies added every species of insult ...
... attack with incredible fury , and , at the same time , uttered their appalling war whoop . Those whom they had taken captive they often tortured , with every variety of cruelty , and to their dying agonies added every species of insult ...
第 24 頁
... attack . A short , but desperate conflict en- sued , at the end of which Smith was seen bearing the head of the lifeless Turbisha in triumph to his general . The fall of the chief filled his friend Crualgo with indignation , and roused ...
... attack . A short , but desperate conflict en- sued , at the end of which Smith was seen bearing the head of the lifeless Turbisha in triumph to his general . The fall of the chief filled his friend Crualgo with indignation , and roused ...
第 28 頁
... attack them unapprised , and to cut them off at a blow . In a dark and stormy night , the heroic Pocahontas hastened alone to Jamestown , and disclosed the inhuman plot of her fa- ther . The colony were thus put on their guard , and ...
... attack them unapprised , and to cut them off at a blow . In a dark and stormy night , the heroic Pocahontas hastened alone to Jamestown , and disclosed the inhuman plot of her fa- ther . The colony were thus put on their guard , and ...
第 38 頁
... attacked by them , and three of his party killed . In April , another portion of this tribe assaulted the people of Wethersfield , as they were going to their fields to labour , and killed six men and three women . Two girls were taken ...
... attacked by them , and three of his party killed . In April , another portion of this tribe assaulted the people of Wethersfield , as they were going to their fields to labour , and killed six men and three women . Two girls were taken ...
第 48 頁
... attack was made June 24th , upon the people of Swanzey , in Plymouth colony , as they were returning home from public worship , on a day of humiliation and prayer , under the apprehension of the approaching war . Eight or nine per sons ...
... attack was made June 24th , upon the people of Swanzey , in Plymouth colony , as they were returning home from public worship , on a day of humiliation and prayer , under the apprehension of the approaching war . Eight or nine per sons ...
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第 297 頁 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
第 166 頁 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
第 154 頁 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
第 242 頁 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last 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.
第 297 頁 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
第 287 頁 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
第 222 頁 - Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
第 80 頁 - God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in , matters of that nature.
第 152 頁 - Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
第 294 頁 - ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...