The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, المجلد 1C.P. Wayne, 1804 |
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الصفحة ix
... given to extract from it whatever might pro- perly be communicated . In the military part of this history , therefore , the author can pro- mise not much that is new . He can only engage for the correctness with which facts are stated ...
... given to extract from it whatever might pro- perly be communicated . In the military part of this history , therefore , the author can pro- mise not much that is new . He can only engage for the correctness with which facts are stated ...
الصفحة xi
... given in more minute detail ; and more copious extracts from his letters are taken , than would comport with the plan of a more general work . Many events too are un- noticed , which in such a composition would be worthy of being ...
... given in more minute detail ; and more copious extracts from his letters are taken , than would comport with the plan of a more general work . Many events too are un- noticed , which in such a composition would be worthy of being ...
الصفحة xii
... given , that long intervals of time pass away without furnishing a single do- cument relative to their affairs . In others very circumstantial details of their original settle- ments have been published , but the relation stops at an ...
... given , that long intervals of time pass away without furnishing a single do- cument relative to their affairs . In others very circumstantial details of their original settle- ments have been published , but the relation stops at an ...
الصفحة xx
... given by the proprietors to the assembly of Carolina .... Rupture with Spain .... Governor endeavours to prepare the militia to repel an invasion .... Combina- tion throughout the colony to subvert the proprie- tary government ...
... given by the proprietors to the assembly of Carolina .... Rupture with Spain .... Governor endeavours to prepare the militia to repel an invasion .... Combina- tion throughout the colony to subvert the proprie- tary government ...
الصفحة xxii
... given the English army .... Battle on the plains of Abraham .... Death of Wolfe and Mont- calm .... Victory of the English .... Quebec capitulates .... Garrisoned by five thousand men , under command of general Murray .... Attempt to ...
... given the English army .... Battle on the plains of Abraham .... Death of Wolfe and Mont- calm .... Victory of the English .... Quebec capitulates .... Garrisoned by five thousand men , under command of general Murray .... Attempt to ...
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الصفحة 38 - Indians, within those parts of our colonies where, we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that, if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony respectively within which they shall lie...
الصفحة 221 - ... to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
الصفحة 37 - ... that no Governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
الصفحة 268 - No aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects or their estates, on any pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
الصفحة 35 - ... all persons inhabiting' in, or resorting to, our said colonies, may confide in our royal protection for the enjoyment of the benefit of the laws of our realm of England...
الصفحة 38 - Bay company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the West and North West...
الصفحة 2 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
الصفحة 85 - They were knit together in a strict and sacred bond, to take care of the good of each other and of the whole. It was not with them as with other men, whom small things could discourage, or small discontents cause to wish themselves again at home.
الصفحة 170 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...