A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel Dewees: A Native of Pennsylvania, and Soldier of the Revolutionary and Last Wars. Also, Reminiscences of the Revolutionary Struggle...and Late War with Great Britain. In All of which He was Patriotically Engaged |
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... possessed a very great desire to make it not only an in- teresting but an instructive volume . The causes of the revolutionary and last wars are not printed in general in such books as are plentifully disseminated . With the view of ...
... possessed a very great desire to make it not only an in- teresting but an instructive volume . The causes of the revolutionary and last wars are not printed in general in such books as are plentifully disseminated . With the view of ...
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... possessed by himself . If parents shall be pleased to hail them to their habitations as a valu- able acquisition to be used as a right hand of aidance in the mental culture of their children , impressing their doctrines in a sedulous ...
... possessed by himself . If parents shall be pleased to hail them to their habitations as a valu- able acquisition to be used as a right hand of aidance in the mental culture of their children , impressing their doctrines in a sedulous ...
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... possessed by Capt . Dewees we per- ceive was infused by his example into his son , who had scarcely gotton clear of the appellation of " Apprentice " when he volunteered at Lancaster in Pa . as one of the brave Pennsylvanians that threw ...
... possessed by Capt . Dewees we per- ceive was infused by his example into his son , who had scarcely gotton clear of the appellation of " Apprentice " when he volunteered at Lancaster in Pa . as one of the brave Pennsylvanians that threw ...
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... possessing an interest in the work . As yet I possess no more interest in it than my readers . I have made it a labor of love from the beginning , and I am proud to do so . I have a spirit of patriotism , jus- tice and gratitude that ...
... possessing an interest in the work . As yet I possess no more interest in it than my readers . I have made it a labor of love from the beginning , and I am proud to do so . I have a spirit of patriotism , jus- tice and gratitude that ...
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... possessed ( contrary to the nature in general of that virtuous people denominated Friends , ) but little of the milk of human kindness . He treated me not only with harshness and rigid severity but with the most brutal and wanton cru ...
... possessed ( contrary to the nature in general of that virtuous people denominated Friends , ) but little of the milk of human kindness . He treated me not only with harshness and rigid severity but with the most brutal and wanton cru ...
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Page 69 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Page 182 - Then sweet the hour that brings release From danger and from toil; We talk the battle over, And share the battle's spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock the wind That in the pine-top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly On beds of oaken leaves.
Page 69 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.
Page 59 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 72 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 69 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.
Page 67 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Page 67 - Why then should we defer the declaration ? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life and his own honor?
Page 95 - Israel : for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David ; as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which have been since the world began ; that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us...
Page 50 - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!