Elements of Useful Knowledge: Volume II : Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of Schools, 2권Hudson and Goodwin, 1813 - 224페이지 |
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... river , where she was burnt in 1772 by an ex- asperated populace . A large reward was offered for the discovery of the offenders , but no discovery was made . Of further Measures to enforce Obedience . In 1769 , the parliament passed an ...
... river , where she was burnt in 1772 by an ex- asperated populace . A large reward was offered for the discovery of the offenders , but no discovery was made . Of further Measures to enforce Obedience . In 1769 , the parliament passed an ...
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... river , announced the determination of the British commander , to oppose the progress of the works . But this not interrupt- ing the Americans , a body of about three thousand men under General Howe , landed under protection of the ...
... river , announced the determination of the British commander , to oppose the progress of the works . But this not interrupt- ing the Americans , a body of about three thousand men under General Howe , landed under protection of the ...
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... river Kenne- bec , and the wilderness . After a most difficult march , in which fatigue and famine reduced his men to about four hundred , the remainder being obliged to return , he joined general Montgomery before Quebeck , in No ...
... river Kenne- bec , and the wilderness . After a most difficult march , in which fatigue and famine reduced his men to about four hundred , the remainder being obliged to return , he joined general Montgomery before Quebeck , in No ...
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... river in the following winter , to march his troops into Boston , and dislodge the enemy . But a coun- cil of war advised not to make the attempt . The mode of attack was therefore varied For the purpose of diverting the attention of ...
... river in the following winter , to march his troops into Boston , and dislodge the enemy . But a coun- cil of war advised not to make the attempt . The mode of attack was therefore varied For the purpose of diverting the attention of ...
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... Rivers , but was defeated and taken prisoner . After which the troops demolished the forts at Chamblee and St. Johns , and proceeded to Crownpoint . The British forces in Canada amounted to thirteen thousand men , but not having boats ...
... Rivers , but was defeated and taken prisoner . After which the troops demolished the forts at Chamblee and St. Johns , and proceeded to Crownpoint . The British forces in Canada amounted to thirteen thousand men , but not having boats ...
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209 페이지 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now...
214 페이지 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole...
213 페이지 - West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort ; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation.
209 페이지 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
212 페이지 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
216 페이지 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
213 페이지 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
213 페이지 - NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the NORTH, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted.
212 페이지 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth...