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... night moved not indeed before them . The age of miracles had passed away , prophecy and vision had ceased to be mediums of heavenly communications . The fulfilment of the most sublime of all prophecies had been accomplished , and the ...
... night moved not indeed before them . The age of miracles had passed away , prophecy and vision had ceased to be mediums of heavenly communications . The fulfilment of the most sublime of all prophecies had been accomplished , and the ...
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... night ; almost at the moment of attack he was disappointed by one of his men , who ran off , fired his gun and gave the alarm . The General's embarrassment was now greatly increased from an apprehension that the deserter would discover ...
... night ; almost at the moment of attack he was disappointed by one of his men , who ran off , fired his gun and gave the alarm . The General's embarrassment was now greatly increased from an apprehension that the deserter would discover ...
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... night , which overwhelmed in darkness the civilized world , approached , and began to throw its lengthening shadows around - when the lights of science began to burn dimly- when philosophy had become sophistry , and poetry and history ...
... night , which overwhelmed in darkness the civilized world , approached , and began to throw its lengthening shadows around - when the lights of science began to burn dimly- when philosophy had become sophistry , and poetry and history ...
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... night by a party of gentlemen , and the powder conveyed away and secured in their own houses . A ship , then recently from England , under command of captain Maitland lying at Tybee , was approached by a party of men in two boats ...
... night by a party of gentlemen , and the powder conveyed away and secured in their own houses . A ship , then recently from England , under command of captain Maitland lying at Tybee , was approached by a party of men in two boats ...
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... night , and took refuge on board a British armed ship lying at Tybee . ―― Such were the energetic and spirited measures imme- diately taken in Savannah by her republican and patriotic sons , at the commencement of difficulty with ...
... night , and took refuge on board a British armed ship lying at Tybee . ―― Such were the energetic and spirited measures imme- diately taken in Savannah by her republican and patriotic sons , at the commencement of difficulty with ...
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Page 52 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 184 - America aforesaid, extending north and eastward as far as the north end of Currituck river or inlet, upon a straight westerly line to Wyonoak creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirty-six and thirty minutes, northern latitude ; and so west in a direct line, as far as the South seas...
Page 12 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 8 - Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Page 12 - The great simplicity, as well as solemnity of the whole, almost made me forget the seventeen hundred years between, and imagine myself in one of those assemblies where form and state were not; but Paul the tent-maker, or Peter the fisherman presided; yet with the demonstration of the spirit and of power.
Page 203 - Reasons for establishing the colony of Georgia, with regard to the trade of Great Britain...
Page 8 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.
Page 296 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 8 - Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery.
Page 270 - Carolinean troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The navy being short of provisions, and the usual season of hurricanes approaching, the commander judged it imprudent to hazard his majesty's ships, by remaining longer on that coast. Last of all, the general himself, sick of a fever, and his regiment worn out with fatigue, and rendered unfit for action by a flux, with sorrow and regret followed, and reached Frederica...