The History of Georgia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - Počet stran: 331 |
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Alatamaha American appointed arms army arrived attack Attakullakulla Augusta Augustine authority Bosomworth British camp Captain Charleston Cherokees chiefs Clarke CO.'S PUBLICATIONS Colonel colonists colony command commissioners Congress council Count D'Estaing Creek nation danger defence detachment dollars EDITION Elijah Clarke encamped enemy enemy's England Engravings favourable fifty Florida force formed Fort Prince George Frederica French frontiers Fuser garrison GEORGE WHITEFIELD Georgia Governor GRAMBO & CO.'S hundred ILLUSTRATIONS Indians inhabitants island joined killed Lachlan McGillivray land latter legislature Lieutenant-colonel Lincoln LIPPINCOTT loss loyalists Malatche McGillivray McGirth McIntosh ment miles military militia negroes Oconee OCTAVO officers Oglethorpe ordered party peace persons Pickens prisoners province province of Georgia Provost regiment reinforcements retreat returned royal savages Savannah River sent settlement siege siege of Savannah skirmish slaves soon South Carolina Spain Spaniards Spanish surrender swamp territory thousand tion town treaty troops trustees United volume warriors wounded Yazoo
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Strana 36 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Strana 250 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Strana 236 - The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
Strana 308 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Strana 280 - ... for the government of the Territory northwest of the Ohio, " that article only excepted which prohibits slavery.
Strana 24 - EDITED BY PROF. JOHN S. HART. WITH TWELVE SPLENDID ILLUMINATIONS, ALL FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS. THE DEW-DROP : A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION. WITH NINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. . GEMS FROM THE SACRED MINE. WITH TEN STEEL PLATES AND ILLUMINATIONS.
Strana 6 - COMPRISING THE MOST EXCELLENT AND APPROPRIATE PASSAGES IN THE OLD BRITISH POETS; WITH CHOICE AND COPIOUS SELECTIONS fROM THE BEST MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETS. EDITED BY SARAH JOSEPHA HALE. As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light Of Nature and of Beauty.
Strana 308 - ... the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance.
Strana 3 - LIPPINCOTT'S EDITIONS OF THE HOLY BIBLE. SIX DIFFERENT SIZES, Printed in the best manner, with beautiful type, on the finest sized paper, and bound in the most splendid and substantial styles. Warranted to be correct, and equal to the best English editions, at much less price. To be had with or without plates ; the publishers having supplied themselves with over fifty steel engravings, by the first artists.
Strana 31 - BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED, 1. WHO IS GREATEST ? and other Stories. 2. WHO ARE HAPPIEST? and other Stories. 3. THE POOR WOOD-CUTTER, and other Stories. , 4. MAGGY'S BABY, and other Stories.