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Page 360 - Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons...
Page 467 - Brown, and Brigadiers Scott and Gaines, have gained for these heroes, and their emulating companions, the most unfading laurels, and having triumphantly tested the progressive discipline of the American soldiery, have taught the enemy that the longer he protracts his hostile efforts the more certain and decisive will be his final discomfiture.
Page 467 - ... our gallant bands pressing upon him. On the Lakes, so much contested throughout the war, the great exertions for the command made on our part have been well repaid. On Lake Ontario our squadron is now and has been for some time in a condition to confine that of the enemy to his own port, and to favor the operations of our land forces on that frontier.
Page 468 - American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which, in their revolutionary struggle, defeated his unrighteous projects. His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but in the disaster and expulsion of such cruel invaders.
Page 150 - An Essay towards attaining a true idea of the Character and Reign of King Charles the First, and the Causes of the Civil War.
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Page 311 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 537 - Estancia di los Ingleses, and are rocks, not caves as has been stated by some writers. It was here we were to pass the night ; so, lighting a fire made of the dry branches of the Spanish broom, and stretching part of a sail over a portion of the rock, we eat our dinner and laid ourselves down to sleep.
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