The Library of American Biography, 第 12 卷C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847 |
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Jared Sparks. PREFACE . In the following pages , I have endeavored to give a plain and accurate narrative of the life and public services of the late Commodore Edward Preble , of the navy of the United States . Several sketches of this ...
Jared Sparks. PREFACE . In the following pages , I have endeavored to give a plain and accurate narrative of the life and public services of the late Commodore Edward Preble , of the navy of the United States . Several sketches of this ...
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... give the reader but a passing and an imperfect account . This period was devoted principally to commercial pursuits . The names of several schooners , brigs , and ships , which he com- manded , in which he went abroad as super- cargo ...
... give the reader but a passing and an imperfect account . This period was devoted principally to commercial pursuits . The names of several schooners , brigs , and ships , which he com- manded , in which he went abroad as super- cargo ...
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... gives the names of ten officers , and of sixty petty offi- cers , marines , and seamen ; total , seventy ; and seventy is the number stated in his letter to the Secretary of the Navy . But in the American State Papers , Vol . XIV . p ...
... gives the names of ten officers , and of sixty petty offi- cers , marines , and seamen ; total , seventy ; and seventy is the number stated in his letter to the Secretary of the Navy . But in the American State Papers , Vol . XIV . p ...
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... the 20th , directed to proceed to Messina , and give the Enterprise such repairs as were necessary to make her a safe vessel ; but , said the economical chief , " You are not to expend any money in ornamenting her . " And EDWARD PREBLE .
... the 20th , directed to proceed to Messina , and give the Enterprise such repairs as were necessary to make her a safe vessel ; but , said the economical chief , " You are not to expend any money in ornamenting her . " And EDWARD PREBLE .
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... give my successor all the assistance in my power . " It so happened , that Barron's presence was delayed until Preble's wishes , thus feelingly but nobly ex- pressed , were well nigh gratified . rival ; As the other frigates were to ...
... give my successor all the assistance in my power . " It so happened , that Barron's presence was delayed until Preble's wishes , thus feelingly but nobly ex- pressed , were well nigh gratified . rival ; As the other frigates were to ...
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Admiral Algiers American appear arrival Assembly attack August Bainbridge Barron Bashaw batteries blockade boats bomb-vessels Boston brig brigs and schooners Captain captives captured charge Chauncey Christian close Colonel Lear colony command Commodore Commodore's compelled Constitution Consul Council crew cruise Decatur despatch duty EDWARD PREBLE enemy engaged England Enterprise father fire flagship force friends frigate gentleman George Fox Gibraltar Governor gunboats guns harbor honor Hull hundred James James Barron John Adams joined King land letter liberty Lieutenant Lord Malta Mediterranean ment Minister months Nautilus naval navy officers peace Penn's Pennsylvania Philadelphia port Preble Preble's prisoners province Quakers ransom received religious remarked round shot sail Samuel Barron schooners Secretary sent ship shot Sir Alexander Ball Siren Society Somers soon squadron Stewart Syracuse tain Tangiers thousand dollars tion treaty Tripoli Tripolitan Tunis United vessels Vixen William Penn wrote
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第 280 頁 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
第 204 頁 - This I can say, that I had an opening of joy as to these parts in the year 1661, at Oxford, twenty years since ; and as my understanding and inclinations have been much directed to observe and reprove mischiefs in government, so it is now put into my power to settle one. For the matters of liberty and privilege...
第 280 頁 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the...
第 253 頁 - A serious Apology for the Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers...
第 386 頁 - I purpose to see you if God give me life this fall, but I grow old and infirm, yet would gladly see you once more before I die, and my young sons and daughter also settled upon good tracts of land for them and theirs after them, to clear and settle upon, as Jacob's sons did.
第 320 頁 - Persuasive to Moderation to Dissenting Christians, in Prudence and Conscience, humbly submitted to the King and his Great Council.
第 235 頁 - Perm, in two volumes. To which is prefixed a Journal of his Life, with many original Letters and Papers not before published.
第 235 頁 - Truth exalted: in a short but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy; and for that glorious light, which is now risen and shines forth in the life and doctrine of the despised Quakers, as the alone good old way of life and salvation.
第 130 頁 - I to die this moment," said he in his despatches to the Admiralty, "want of frigates would be found stamped on my heart ! No words of mine can express what I have suffered, and am suffering, for want of them.
第 280 頁 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...