Report of the Commission Created in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of Congress, Approved March 3, 1881: Providing for the Erection of a Monument at Yorktown, Va., Commemorative of the Surrender of Lord CornwallisU.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - 169 sider |
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Report of the Commission Created in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of ... United States. Yorktown Centennial Commission Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1883 |
Report of the Commission Created in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of ... United States. Yorktown Centennial Commission Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1883 |
Report of the Commission Created in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of ... United States. Yorktown Centennial Commission Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1883 |
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Side 40 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Side 42 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Side 55 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Side 17 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Side 17 - And grant unto her whole Council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of Thy true religion, and virtue.
Side 12 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz.: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be FREE, SOVEREIGN, AND INDEPENDENT STATES...
Side 35 - Nature bless the inhabitants of this place with all the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of life ; assist in the erection and completion of this...
Side 12 - The essential and direct end of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty, sovereignty, and independence absolute and unlimited, of the said United States, as well in matters of government as of commerce.
Side 45 - And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.
Side 28 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.