The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 3John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson Henry B. Dawson, 1859 - United States |
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Page 216 - American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies. There were three numbers, dated January through March. The close rival was Benjamin Franklin's The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for All the British Plantations in America.
Page 362 - GEORGE ROGERS CLARK : You are to proceed with all convenient Speed to raise Seven Companies of Soldiers to consist of fifty men each officered in the usual manner & armed most properly for the Enterprise, & with this Force attack the British post at Kaskasky.
Page 87 - Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England.
Page 137 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his...
Page 91 - ... merely as melodious din. On the other hand, by way of amends, I am delighted with many little melodies, which the learned musician despises as silly and insipid. I do not know whether the old air
Page 32 - It has opened many a prison-door. It is ordained to break every chain. I have faith in its triumphs. I do not, cannot despair.
Page 56 - Whiggamors* inroad, and ever after that, all that opposed the court came in contempt to be called Whiggs ; and from Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of disunion.
Page 234 - The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle ; Since wars began, I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle. The rebel dales, the rebel vales, With rebel trees surrounded, The distant wood, the hills and floods, With rebel echoes sounded.
Page 234 - A hundred men, with each a pen, Or more, upon my word, sir, It is most true, would be too few, Their valor to record, sir. " Such feats did they perform that day Against these wicked kegs, sir, That, years to come, if they get home, They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Page 63 - Peace of 1815, and of the Governors of New York since the introduction of the Custom; with those of the Several States in 1858, with an Historical Introduction and Notes.