The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, Հատորներ 1-2Martha Helen Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Mary Hilliard Hinton North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, 1901 |
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The North Carolina Booklet, Հատորներ 1-3,Հատորներ 6-8 Martha Helen Haywood,Mrs. Haywood Hubert,Mary Hilliard Hinton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1906 |
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Էջ 7 - The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers ; by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant.
Էջ 25 - I trust it has ever been my ruling principle, that honesty is the best policy ; and likewise that other golden precept — to do unto all men as I would they should do unto me.
Էջ 16 - ... write or carve on the trees or posts of the dores the name of the place where they should be seated; for at my comming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak 50 miles into the maine.
Էջ 7 - ... arrived upon the coast, which we supposed to be a continent and firm land, and we sailed along the same a hundred and twenty English miles before we could find any entrance or river issuing into the sea.
Էջ 29 - ... degrees, and was sodded with marsh grass, which grew luxuriantly. The parapet was not less than twenty-five feet thick, with an inclination of only one foot. The revetment was five feet nine inches high, from the floor of the gun chambers, and these were some twelve feet or more from the interior plane. The guns were all mounted in barbette, Columbiad carriages ; there was not a single casemated gun in the fort.
Էջ 13 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Էջ 8 - Deputies from the whole province, it is a duty that we owe not only to our near and dear relations and connections, but to ourselves, who are essentially interested in their welfare, to do everything as far as lies in our power to testify our sincere adherence to the same, and we do therefore accordingly subscribe this paper, as a witness of our fixed intention and solemn determination to do so.
Էջ 9 - ... strive to conquer them, the more we are conquered. The Edenton ladies, conscious, I suppose, of this superiority on their side, by a former experience, are willing, I imagine, to crush us into atoms by their omnipotency ; the only security on our side, to prevent the impending ruin, that I can perceive, is the probability that there are but few places in America which possess so much female artillery as Edenton. Pray let me know all the particulars when you favor me with a letter. . . . Your...
Էջ 20 - The common weal was his sole object ; nothing selfish, nothing mercenary soiled his ermine character Fertile in stratagem, he struck unperceived, and retiring to those hidden retreats selected by himself, in the morasses of Pedee and Black river, he placed his corps, not only out of the reach of his foe, but often out of the discovery of his friends.
Էջ 7 - That blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy...