Three Years in North America, Band 1R. Cadell, 1833 - 544 Seiten |
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Seite 249 - jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Seite 167 - the frenzy of hostility should remain, I trust I shall stand acquitted in the eyes of God and man, in denouncing and executing the vengeance of the state against the wilful outcasts. The messengers of justice and of wrath await them in the field; devastation, famine, and every concomitant horror that a reluctant, but
Seite 301 - unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you : come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel." The discourse seemed to me altogether faultless, and the address at the end was most remarkably impressive. The speaker, in the conclusion, alluded to the sect of Christians to which he belonged, the Methodists; but
Seite 339 - All the writers of England united, if we could for a moment suppose their great minds stooping to so unworthy a combination, could not conceal our rapidly growing importance and matchless prosperity. They could not conceal that these are owing, not merely to physical and local, but also to moral causes:—to the political
Seite 167 - I have but to give stretch to the Indian forces under my direction,—and they amount to thousands,—to overtake the hardened enemies of Great Britain and America. I consider them the same wherever they may lurk. If, notwithstanding these endeavours and sincere inclinations, the frenzy of hostility should remain, I trust I shall stand acquitted in the eyes of God and
Seite 173 - I was told, she had found, from some kind and fortunate hand, a little rum and dirty water. All I could furnish to her was an open boat, and a few lines, written upon dirty and wet paper, to General Gates, recommending her to his protection.
Seite 47 - Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprize of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting with you on
Seite 173 - to say, that she was received and accommodated by General Gates, with all the humanity and respect that her rank, her merits, and her fortunes deserved."—" Let such," adds General Burgoyne, " as are affected by these circumstances of alarm, hardship, and danger, recollect, that the subject of them was a woman, of the most tender and delicate
Seite 239 - Sacred to the liberty and rights of mankind ; the freedom and independence of America, sealed and defended by the blood of her sons. " This monument is erected by the inhabitants of Lexington, under the patronage and at the expence of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the memory of their fellow citizens, Ensign Robert Munroe,
Seite 339 - say that these were the King's precise words ; and it is even possible that I may have, in some particular, mistaken his meaning; for, although his pronunciation is as distinct as I ever heard, he hesitated sometimes between his periods, and between the members of the same period. He was, indeed, much