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, 第 1 卷J. Crissy, 1836 |
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第 8 頁
... expected , continuing to consult him privately , he strenuously urged that officer to leave his heavy artillery and baggage with the rear division of the army ; and with a chosen body of troops and some pieces of light artillery , to ...
... expected , continuing to consult him privately , he strenuously urged that officer to leave his heavy artillery and baggage with the rear division of the army ; and with a chosen body of troops and some pieces of light artillery , to ...
第 9 頁
... expected every moment , " says an eye - witness , * " to see him fall . His duty and situa- tion exposed him to every danger . Nothing but the superintending care . of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him ...
... expected every moment , " says an eye - witness , * " to see him fall . His duty and situa- tion exposed him to every danger . Nothing but the superintending care . of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him ...
第 10 頁
... expected to annoy us . Yet , contrary to all expectation and human probability , and even to the common course of things , we were totally defeated , and have sustained the loss of every thing . " + In a sermon preached not long after ...
... expected to annoy us . Yet , contrary to all expectation and human probability , and even to the common course of things , we were totally defeated , and have sustained the loss of every thing . " + In a sermon preached not long after ...
第 15 頁
... expected by those who defer preparing the means of defence , until the moment when they ought to be used ; and then , rely almost entirely , on a force neither adequate to the danger , nor of equal continuance . It is an interesting ...
... expected by those who defer preparing the means of defence , until the moment when they ought to be used ; and then , rely almost entirely , on a force neither adequate to the danger , nor of equal continuance . It is an interesting ...
第 23 頁
... expected that the army would march by Braddock's road : but , late in July , he had the mortification to receive a letter from Colonel Bouquet , asking an interview with him , in order to consult on opening a new road from Raystown ...
... expected that the army would march by Braddock's road : but , late in July , he had the mortification to receive a letter from Colonel Bouquet , asking an interview with him , in order to consult on opening a new road from Raystown ...
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第 16 頁 - A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
第 20 頁 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
第 12 頁 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
第 14 頁 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
第 16 頁 - Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them : but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited...
第 20 頁 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature that noble Lord may entertain, I know not; but I know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
第 12 頁 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
第 427 頁 - ... provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
第 15 頁 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
第 79 頁 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...