The Cymry of '76, Or, Welshmen and Their Descendants of the American Revolution: An Address with an Appendix, Containing Notes, Sketches, and Nomenclature of the CymbriSheldon, Lamport, 1855 - 132 strani |
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The Cymry of '76; Or, Welshmen and Their Descendants of the America N ... Alexander Jones,Samuel Jenkins Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1968 |
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Stran 27 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Stran 12 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Stran 76 - Where is your Good Old Cause ? " He, with a cheerful smile, clapt his hand on his breast, and said, " Here it is, and I am going to seal it with my blood.
Stran 66 - Owen plied his noble guest durihg supper, with those sweet-spiced liquors which formed no inconsiderable part of the domestic expense of the nobles, the mixture of which was an art derived principally from the French, and was greatly esteemed by our ancestors in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. " There was eke wexing many a spice As clowe, gilofre, and licorice, Gingibir, and grean de Paris, Canell at setewale of pris. And many a spice delitable To eaten whan men rise fro table.
Stran 72 - I deem it not unseasonable to annex this voluntary protestation : that, whoever, ill-affected to the state, shall dare to land in those parts of Wales, where I have any employments under your Majesty, must resolve with himself to make his entrance and irruption over my belly.
Stran 77 - When Mr. Cook was cut down and brought to be quartered, one they called Colonel Turner calling to the Sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters near, that he might see it; and by and by the Hangman came to him all besmeared in blood, and rubbing his bloody hands together, he tauntingly asked, Come, how do you like this, Mr. Peters ? How do you like this work?
Stran 61 - ... our taskmasters, and would rejoice at our calamities. Look, oh! look therefore at your respective States, and anticipate the consequences if these vassals are suffered to enter! It would fail the most fruitful imagination to represent in a proper light what anguish, what horror, what distress would spread over the whole! See, oh! see the dear wives of your bosoms forced from their peaceful habitations, and perhaps used with such indecency that modesty would forbid the description. Behold the...
Stran 60 - Our situation is such that if properly defended, we shall give our enemies a fatal blow, and in great measure prove the means of the salvation of North America. " Such is our present case, that we are fighting for all that is near and dear to us, while our enemies are engaged in the worst of causes, their design being to subjugate, plunder, and enslave a free people that have done them no harm. Their tyrannical views are so glaring, their cause so horribly bad, that there still remain too much goodness...
Stran 60 - ... be recalled, and NOW time will not admit an enlargement, as we have the greatest reason to expect the advancement of our enemies as speedily as Heaven will permit. [The wind blew to the north, strongly.] Therefore, at present, let it suffice to bring to your remembrance some necessary truths. " It is our common faith and a very just one too, that all events on earth are under the notice of that God in whom we live, move, and have our being ; therefore we must believe that, in this important struggle...
Stran 19 - DEAR GENERAL,— The fort and garrison, with Colonel Johnston, are ours. Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.