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Արդյունքներ 62–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... America . To the Honorable ARTEMAS WARD , Esquire , ― Major - General in the Continental Forces . SIR , You are hereby ordered and directed to take upon you the command of the Continental Forces remain- ing in the Province of the ...
... America . To the Honorable ARTEMAS WARD , Esquire , ― Major - General in the Continental Forces . SIR , You are hereby ordered and directed to take upon you the command of the Continental Forces remain- ing in the Province of the ...
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... America from the 1st day of December last , according to compact made between him and the Honorable Silas Deane , Esq . I have wrote to Mons . Borre myself , and have desired him to come forward . If the six months was advanced to him ...
... America from the 1st day of December last , according to compact made between him and the Honorable Silas Deane , Esq . I have wrote to Mons . Borre myself , and have desired him to come forward . If the six months was advanced to him ...
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... America . This they have not had from any proper authority . However , I re- quest that you will inquire into the matter ; and , if it is so , the measure will be readily come into on our part , and may be carried into effect for the ...
... America . This they have not had from any proper authority . However , I re- quest that you will inquire into the matter ; and , if it is so , the measure will be readily come into on our part , and may be carried into effect for the ...
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... Americans are generous ; and , when satisfied that people are their friends , they are not wanting in hospi- tality and acts of benevolence . I am , dear sir , your most obedient servant , GO WASHINGTON . P. S. Things with respect to ...
... Americans are generous ; and , when satisfied that people are their friends , they are not wanting in hospi- tality and acts of benevolence . I am , dear sir , your most obedient servant , GO WASHINGTON . P. S. Things with respect to ...
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... America . I find great embarrassments from the want of sufficient provisions and means of transportation ; but , with proper exertions , these difficulties , I hope , will be soon removed . With respect and esteem , I am , dear sir ...
... America . I find great embarrassments from the want of sufficient provisions and means of transportation ; but , with proper exertions , these difficulties , I hope , will be soon removed . With respect and esteem , I am , dear sir ...
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Էջ 458 - Virginia, have nominated, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do nominate, constitute, and appoint, the said Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and Thomas Jefferson...
Էջ 348 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Էջ 348 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Էջ 460 - ... of them, and that we will never act nor suffer any- person to act contrary to the same, in whole or in any part. In witness whereof, we have caused these presents to be signed by our President, and sealed with his seal. Done at Philadelphia, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth year of our independence by the United States in Congress assembled. " SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, and a seal. " Attest : CHARLES THOMSON, Secy.
Էջ 354 - I love to pour out all myself as plain As downright Shippen, or as old Montaigne...
Էջ 457 - Adams, esqr., late a commissioner of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and chief justice of the said State...
Էջ 480 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Էջ 379 - Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.