A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes In: the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, 1832, Svazek 1Saunders & Otley, 1833 - Počet stran: 485 |
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Strana 4
... opposite tack to the " poor or- phan : " so far from courting concealment , she had ever been observed to be cooking or loitering about the ca- bose , was the most noisy of all the females on board , and had once or twice even ventured ...
... opposite tack to the " poor or- phan : " so far from courting concealment , she had ever been observed to be cooking or loitering about the ca- bose , was the most noisy of all the females on board , and had once or twice even ventured ...
Strana 13
... Opposite to , and about a mile distant from the fort , is Delaware city , at the junction of the Chesapeake Canal with the Delaware . I went ashore for an hour at mid - day , and walked through the city , which is but a miserable ...
... Opposite to , and about a mile distant from the fort , is Delaware city , at the junction of the Chesapeake Canal with the Delaware . I went ashore for an hour at mid - day , and walked through the city , which is but a miserable ...
Strana 16
... opposite side of the river is Red Bank , the site of another old fort , abandoned on the approach of Lord Cornwallis ; while in the centre of the stream are the remains of a large wooden battery , formed by piles driven into the bed of ...
... opposite side of the river is Red Bank , the site of another old fort , abandoned on the approach of Lord Cornwallis ; while in the centre of the stream are the remains of a large wooden battery , formed by piles driven into the bed of ...
Strana 33
... did not even accompany me up stairs , but left me to admire its beauties without interruption . On the opposite side of the Hospital , in the open square , D is a fine statue of Penn , executed in England A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH . 33.
... did not even accompany me up stairs , but left me to admire its beauties without interruption . On the opposite side of the Hospital , in the open square , D is a fine statue of Penn , executed in England A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH . 33.
Strana 34
... opposite side of the Schuylkill river , capable of con- taining 3000. The institution is supported by a rate upon the people , and the average number of inmates is considerably above 1000. There were many lunatics in one of the wards ...
... opposite side of the Schuylkill river , capable of con- taining 3000. The institution is supported by a rate upon the people , and the average number of inmates is considerably above 1000. There were many lunatics in one of the wards ...
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Strana 470 - 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...
Strana 471 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 471 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 38 - 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.
Strana 472 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 472 - 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.
Strana 466 - 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.
Strana 469 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 473 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Strana 474 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...