Ramsay's History of South Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808, المجلد 1W.J. Duffie, 1858 - 581 من الصفحات |
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... fires which at several successive periods have deso- lated Charleston , Much of what escaped from these calamities was destroyed in the invasions of the State by the British in 1779 and 1780. Of what remained every practicable use was ...
... fires which at several successive periods have deso- lated Charleston , Much of what escaped from these calamities was destroyed in the invasions of the State by the British in 1779 and 1780. Of what remained every practicable use was ...
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... fire upon them . After blows and wounds were given and received , the sailors and men of Broughton's party prevailed so far as to lower down the drawbridge over which they entered and proceeded to the watch - house in Broad street ...
... fire upon them . After blows and wounds were given and received , the sailors and men of Broughton's party prevailed so far as to lower down the drawbridge over which they entered and proceeded to the watch - house in Broad street ...
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... fire to the house , and proceeded towards Jacksonborough . In their way they plundered and burnt every house , killed the white people , and compelled the negroes to join them . Governor Bull , returning to Charlestown from the ...
... fire to the house , and proceeded towards Jacksonborough . In their way they plundered and burnt every house , killed the white people , and compelled the negroes to join them . Governor Bull , returning to Charlestown from the ...
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... fire . It began about two o'clock P. M. , and continued until eight . The houses being built of wood , and the wind blowing hard at northwest , the flames spread with astonishing rapidity . From the south side of Broad street to ...
... fire . It began about two o'clock P. M. , and continued until eight . The houses being built of wood , and the wind blowing hard at northwest , the flames spread with astonishing rapidity . From the south side of Broad street to ...
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... fires opposite the town equal to the number of ships they might see on the coast . Carolina was at this juncture the southern frontier of the British empire in America ; and though it had acquired some degree of strength , was in a ...
... fires opposite the town equal to the number of ships they might see on the coast . Carolina was at this juncture the southern frontier of the British empire in America ; and though it had acquired some degree of strength , was in a ...
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الصفحة 77 - State to all mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.
الصفحة 208 - ... of portentous, deathlike silence which reigned throughout the house : the preacher removing his white handkerchief from his aged face, (even yet wet from the recent torrent of his tears,) and slowly stretching forth the palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence : "Socrates died like a philosopher...
الصفحة 208 - Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ, like a God...
الصفحة 207 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation ; but I must confess, that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
الصفحة 69 - It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be permitted to plead another man's cause, till, before the judge in open court, he hath taken an oath, that he doth not plead for money or reward...
الصفحة 272 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
الصفحة 162 - Majesty be pleased to direct some mode by which the united applications of your faithful colonists to the throne, in pursuance of their common councils, may be improved into a happy and permanent reconciliation; and that, in the mean time...
الصفحة 129 - America, with full power and authority to concert, agree to, and effectually prosecute such legal measures, as in the opinion of the said deputies, and of the deputies so to be assembled, shall be most likely to obtain a repeal of the said acts, and a redress of those grievances...
الصفحة 208 - It was some time before the tumult had subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weakness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject, or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall.
الصفحة 151 - British rulers to injure them. Indeed, the ruinous and deadly injuries received on our side, and the jealousies entertained, and which, in the nature of things, must daily increase against us, on the other demonstrate to a mind in the least given to reflection upon the rise and fall of empires, that true reconcilement never can exist between Great Britain and America, the latter being in subjection to the former.