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Pagina 57
... savages , and put- ting into their hands the scalping knife during our revolutionary war , were openly justified in the House of Lords by Lord Suffolk , the British Secre- tary of State , who vindicated its policy and neces- sity , and ...
... savages , and put- ting into their hands the scalping knife during our revolutionary war , were openly justified in the House of Lords by Lord Suffolk , the British Secre- tary of State , who vindicated its policy and neces- sity , and ...
Pagina 58
... savages . † The ostensible causes of war among the Indians , were like many of those among civilized nations ; controversies about limits , violations of the rights of embassy , individual or national wrongs : And the real and latent ...
... savages . † The ostensible causes of war among the Indians , were like many of those among civilized nations ; controversies about limits , violations of the rights of embassy , individual or national wrongs : And the real and latent ...
Pagina 60
... savages . It was then evident , that the English had it in their power , not only to undersell the French , but by a total interdiction of those supplies , to expel them from the trade . The enlightened policy of Gov. Burnet dictated ...
... savages . It was then evident , that the English had it in their power , not only to undersell the French , but by a total interdiction of those supplies , to expel them from the trade . The enlightened policy of Gov. Burnet dictated ...
Pagina 61
... savage nations of Canada , in order to ruin the commerce of the French , and after that to dislodge them from the continent . With this view they have carried the war above four or five hundred leagues off their country , after the de ...
... savage nations of Canada , in order to ruin the commerce of the French , and after that to dislodge them from the continent . With this view they have carried the war above four or five hundred leagues off their country , after the de ...
Pagina 65
... savage allies . Their war with the French began with Champlain , and con- tinued , with few intervals , until the treaty of Utrecht , which confirmed the surrender of Canada , Nova Scotia , and Acadia , to Great Britain . For * Colden ...
... savage allies . Their war with the French began with Champlain , and con- tinued , with few intervals , until the treaty of Utrecht , which confirmed the surrender of Canada , Nova Scotia , and Acadia , to Great Britain . For * Colden ...
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Pagina 40 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pagina 147 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Pagina 148 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; Camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Pagina 147 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Pagina 53 - For this purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brethren, and therefore depart the council, and consider what has been said to you.
Pagina 85 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Pagina 102 - ... company of soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming. He says, that he only came to the lake to smoke on the great calumet with the Onondagas. But Grangvla says, that he sees the contrary.; that it was to knock them on the head, if sickness had not weakened the arms of the French.
Pagina 98 - ... considering the wonderful events of the past and present times, and the inscrutable dispensations of an over-ruling Providence, may we not look forward into futurity, and without departing from the rigid laws of probability, predict the occurrence of similar scenes, at some remote period of time. And, perhaps, in the decrepitude of our empire, some transcendent genius, whose powers of mind shall only be bounded by that impenetrable circle which prescribes the limits of human nature*, may rally...
Pagina xi - An Act instituting a lottery for the promotion of literature and for other purposes,