A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole Period from the Discovery of North America, Down to the Year 1820 ...The author, 1821 |
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الصفحة 71 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
الصفحة 70 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
الصفحة 313 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
الصفحة 308 - From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.
الصفحة 62 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...
الصفحة 408 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
الصفحة 425 - Persons arrive there, a certain Quantity of Land or Ground Plat, shall be laid out for a large Town or City, in the most convenient Place upon the River for Health and Navigation ; and every Purchaser and Adventurer, shall by Lot, have so much Land therein as will answer to the Proportion which he hath bought or taken up upon Rent...
الصفحة 142 - In the next place, I find them of the like countenance, and their children of so lively resemblance, that a man would think himself in Duke's Place or Berry Street, in London, when he seeth them. But this is not all : they agree in rites ; they reckon by moons ; they offer their first fruits ; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles ; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones ; their mourning a year ; customs of women : with many other things that do not now occur.
الصفحة 71 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
الصفحة 116 - Whereas our trusty and well-beloved subject William Penn, Esquire, son and heir of Sir William Penn deceased, (out of a commendable desire to enlarge our British empire, and promote such useful commodities, as may be of benefit to us and our dominions, as also to reduce the savage Natives, by just and gentle manners, to the love of civil society, and Christian religion...