Elements of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Containing a Historical and Geographical Account of the United States : for the Use of SchoolsFrom Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1808 - 223 Seiten |
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... thirty - five thou fand troops , a body of cavalry , and military apparatus of every kind .. General Washington could oppofe to this . force not more than feventeen thousand men , most of them without experience or difciplin , and ...
... thirty - five thou fand troops , a body of cavalry , and military apparatus of every kind .. General Washington could oppofe to this . force not more than feventeen thousand men , most of them without experience or difciplin , and ...
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... thirty millions of money . In this ftate of affairs , the ministry had recourse to private subscriptions to raise additional troops . In February 1778 , lord North laid before the house of commons two bills , for conciliating the ...
... thirty millions of money . In this ftate of affairs , the ministry had recourse to private subscriptions to raise additional troops . In February 1778 , lord North laid before the house of commons two bills , for conciliating the ...
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... thirty two guns , one of twenty , one of eighteen , feveral fmaller fhips , and- twenty four tranfports , were burnt or funk without of fering any resistance to the enemy . 82. Operations in South Carolina and Georgia . Gène-- ral ...
... thirty two guns , one of twenty , one of eighteen , feveral fmaller fhips , and- twenty four tranfports , were burnt or funk without of fering any resistance to the enemy . 82. Operations in South Carolina and Georgia . Gène-- ral ...
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... thirty - first and forty - eighth degrees of north latitude ; and the fixty - third and ninety - feventh degrees of longi- tude weft from Greenwich , in England . 137. Northern Boundary of the United States . The northern limit of the ...
... thirty - first and forty - eighth degrees of north latitude ; and the fixty - third and ninety - feventh degrees of longi- tude weft from Greenwich , in England . 137. Northern Boundary of the United States . The northern limit of the ...
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... thirty - feventh to the thirty - first degree of latitude , and including the Carolinas and Geor- gia , has a predominance of mild weather in winter , tho it is not exempt from occafional frofts . 141. Temperature of the Several Regions ...
... thirty - feventh to the thirty - first degree of latitude , and including the Carolinas and Geor- gia , has a predominance of mild weather in winter , tho it is not exempt from occafional frofts . 141. Temperature of the Several Regions ...
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Seite 221 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Seite 213 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
Seite 207 - 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 ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my...
Seite 220 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite 220 - It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to...
Seite 214 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Seite 210 - 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...
Seite 208 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite 214 - HOWEVER combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Seite 216 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.