The History of Illinois, from Its First Discovery and Settlement to the Present TimeJ. Winchester, 1844 - 492 من الصفحات |
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adventure afterward American Anne Boleyn appointed arms army arrived attack bank battle became Big Knife Black Hawk British Cahokia Canada Captain chief Colonel Clarke colonists colony command commenced Continent council Detroit dollars enemy England English erected expedition feet fire followed force forests Fort Frontenac France French friends garrison glory Governor granted hand honor hostile hundred Illinois Illinois river immediately Indians inhabitants Iroquois Jesuit Kaskaskia Kentucky king Lake Lake Michigan land latter Lord Louis Louis XIV Louisiana Marquis de Montcalm massacre ment miles Mississippi nation natives Nauvoo New-York officers Ohio once party passed peace person Pontiac possession Pottawatomies present prisoners Quebec received returned river ruins sailed Salle savage says sent settlement soldiers soon sought Spain surrender Tecumseh territory thence thereupon thither thousand tion town tribes troops United vessels village Virginia warriors whole wounded
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الصفحة 25 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace.
الصفحة 442 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious societies or modes of worship.
الصفحة 23 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
الصفحة 227 - When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
الصفحة 98 - ... and convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
الصفحة 210 - ... that no Governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America, do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey, or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic ocean from the West or Northwest...
الصفحة 263 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
الصفحة 98 - In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith...
الصفحة 263 - Pennsylvania and the said territorial line: provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
الصفحة 263 - The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami, to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.