The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 5John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson Henry B. Dawson, 1861 - United States |
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... WASHINGTON . Letter to Governor Nelson . I send for the H. M. a letter from Washington to Thomas Nelson , Jr. , copied by me from the original , which is in the handwriting of Washing- ton . The copy is exact , even in the punctuation ...
... WASHINGTON . Letter to Governor Nelson . I send for the H. M. a letter from Washington to Thomas Nelson , Jr. , copied by me from the original , which is in the handwriting of Washing- ton . The copy is exact , even in the punctuation ...
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... Washington , aware of the condi- tion , refers to the exceedingly great disaffection at Amboy , and other places , not far distant : KILDARE , June 4th , 1776 . It is with pain and grief I find , by your Letter of the 20th ult , that ...
... Washington , aware of the condi- tion , refers to the exceedingly great disaffection at Amboy , and other places , not far distant : KILDARE , June 4th , 1776 . It is with pain and grief I find , by your Letter of the 20th ult , that ...
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... Washington , copper , size 21 . Ob . - Head of Washington , to the right ; hair long , tied in a queue ; epaulet ; shirt ruffle seen in the bosom ; legend , “ GEORGE WASHINGTON , OF VIRGINIA . Rev. In the centre a pyramid of fifteen ...
... Washington , copper , size 21 . Ob . - Head of Washington , to the right ; hair long , tied in a queue ; epaulet ; shirt ruffle seen in the bosom ; legend , “ GEORGE WASHINGTON , OF VIRGINIA . Rev. In the centre a pyramid of fifteen ...
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... Washington Amateur Theatre was es- tablished for a short time in Washington Hall , on Wey bosset - street , and in the same year the Lion - Seven golden articles from the Huacas or an- Theatre on Fulton - street , was opened , but the ...
... Washington Amateur Theatre was es- tablished for a short time in Washington Hall , on Wey bosset - street , and in the same year the Lion - Seven golden articles from the Huacas or an- Theatre on Fulton - street , was opened , but the ...
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... Washington's Southern cam- and in the Indian war some time afterward ) , once paign , and while Richard Peters ( subsequently told him , when casually speaking of Col. Hump- Judge of the District Court of the United States ) , ton ...
... Washington's Southern cam- and in the Indian war some time afterward ) , once paign , and while Richard Peters ( subsequently told him , when casually speaking of Col. Hump- Judge of the District Court of the United States ) , ton ...
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Page 134 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 100 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
Page 226 - London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632.
Page 161 - You shall take especial care, that God Almighty be devoutly and duly served throughout your government, the book of common prayer as by law established, read each sunday, and holy-day, and the blessed sacrament administered according to the rites of the church of England.
Page 188 - WASHINGTON, The Defender of his Country, the Founder of Liberty, The Friend of Man. History and Tradition are explored in vain For a Parallel to his Character. In the Annals of modern Greatness, He stands alone, And the noblest Names of Antiquity Lose their Lustre in his Presence.
Page 222 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 100 - It is nothing now, When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, When airs from paradise refresh my brow, The earth in darkness lies. In a purer clime, My being fills with rapture — waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit — strains sublime Break over me unsought. Give me now my lyre ! I feel the stirrings of a gift divine ; Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
Page 146 - In that Lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the Sterre transmontane, that is clept the Sterre of the See, that is unmevable, and that is toward the Northe, that we clepen the Lode Sterre.
Page 161 - The Dutch here shall enjoy the liberty of their consciences in divine worship and church discipline.
Page 38 - The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen* as the most precious jewel of their coronet.