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 sider |
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Side 31
... South Carolina , with a view to take poffeffion and make an impreffion on the southern states . An attempt had been made in winter , by a party of Britifh troops and royalifts , to penetrate into North Carolina , but it was repelled ...
... South Carolina , with a view to take poffeffion and make an impreffion on the southern states . An attempt had been made in winter , by a party of Britifh troops and royalifts , to penetrate into North Carolina , but it was repelled ...
Side 44
... South Carolina and Georgia . Gène-- ral Lincoln had been appointed to the command of the fouthern American army , and the British forces had been reinforced . In May , general Afh was defeated by the enemy , under general Prevcft , at ...
... South Carolina and Georgia . Gène-- ral Lincoln had been appointed to the command of the fouthern American army , and the British forces had been reinforced . In May , general Afh was defeated by the enemy , under general Prevcft , at ...
Side 45
... South Carolina , being left defenfeless , returned to their allegiance , and the Brit- ish commander represented the state as fubdued .. 85 . War in the Southern States . No fooner was Char lefton in the hands of the enemy , than ...
... South Carolina , being left defenfeless , returned to their allegiance , and the Brit- ish commander represented the state as fubdued .. 85 . War in the Southern States . No fooner was Char lefton in the hands of the enemy , than ...
Side 72
... south is , on an average , one thousand miles - the bredth , on the north line , is fifteer . hundred miles , and on the fouth , feven hundred ; giving an area or furface of more than one thousand miles fquare , and containing at least ...
... south is , on an average , one thousand miles - the bredth , on the north line , is fifteer . hundred miles , and on the fouth , feven hundred ; giving an area or furface of more than one thousand miles fquare , and containing at least ...
Side 75
... south- east on the American coaft , of great extent - they usually begin within a hundred miles of the coaft , and seldom reach a hundred miles into the interior country - often not half the distance . A fouth wind is ufually warm , and ...
... south- east on the American coaft , of great extent - they usually begin within a hundred miles of the coaft , and seldom reach a hundred miles into the interior country - often not half the distance . A fouth wind is ufually warm , and ...
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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.