Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania, for the Days of the Founders ... Embellished with Engravings by T.H. Mumford, Том 2Whiting & Thomas, 1857 |
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... army , under Gens . Howe , Grey , Grant and Agnew , were attack- ed by the Americans in the following order : Washington , with the division of Sullivan and Wayne , flanked by Gen. Thomas Con- way's brigade , entered the town by ...
... army , under Gens . Howe , Grey , Grant and Agnew , were attack- ed by the Americans in the following order : Washington , with the division of Sullivan and Wayne , flanked by Gen. Thomas Con- way's brigade , entered the town by ...
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... army , as the Americans advanced , threw himself , with six compa- nies of the 40th regiment , into Chew's large stone house , which stood full in front of the main body of the Americans . Musgrave , before the battle , encamped back of ...
... army , as the Americans advanced , threw himself , with six compa- nies of the 40th regiment , into Chew's large stone house , which stood full in front of the main body of the Americans . Musgrave , before the battle , encamped back of ...
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... army must have been victorious , and we should have been sufficiently avenged for our losses the preceding month at the battle of Brandywine , and would have probably caused the British to evacuate Philadelphia . But Gen. Wilkinson , in ...
... army must have been victorious , and we should have been sufficiently avenged for our losses the preceding month at the battle of Brandywine , and would have probably caused the British to evacuate Philadelphia . But Gen. Wilkinson , in ...
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... army removed from German- town to Philadelphia , as a more convenient place for the reduction of Fort Island . After the battle , the British surgeons made use of Reuben Haines ' hall as a room for amputating and other hospital ...
... army removed from German- town to Philadelphia , as a more convenient place for the reduction of Fort Island . After the battle , the British surgeons made use of Reuben Haines ' hall as a room for amputating and other hospital ...
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... army and served in the war against the Turks . At Prague he endured the hardships of the seventeen weeks ' siege . After its conquest by the French in 1741 , he enlisted and served in the army of Prussia . At the peace , he entered an ...
... army and served in the war against the Turks . At Prague he endured the hardships of the seventeen weeks ' siege . After its conquest by the French in 1741 , he enlisted and served in the army of Prussia . At the peace , he entered an ...
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Стр. 500 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Стр. 479 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor...
Стр. 579 - But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me...
Стр. 88 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Стр. 86 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Стр. 513 - Christians ; for we hear that the most part of such negers are brought hither against their will and consent, and that many of them are stolen. Now, though they are black...
Стр. 513 - This is to the monthly meeting held at Richard Worrell's: These are the reasons why we are against the traffic of men-body, as followeth: Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner?
Стр. 154 - ... nothing is too good for their friend: give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks: light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent: the most merry creatures that live...
Стр. 151 - There is, indeed, in the fate of these unfortunate beings, much to awaken our sympathy, and much to disturb the sobriety of our judgment ; much, which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy than their history ? By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slow, but sure extinction.
Стр. 336 - The rebels — more's the pity, Without a boat are all afloat, And ranged before the city. • " The motley crew, in vessels new, With Satan for their guide, sir, Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, Come driving down the tide, sir. " Therefore prepare for bloody war, — These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted.