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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... trees in which his countrymen had been previously hung , and with a sear- ing iron , impressed on a tablet of wood this inscription , " I do not do this as to Spaniards , but as to robbers and murderers . " The victors , after razing ...
... trees in which his countrymen had been previously hung , and with a sear- ing iron , impressed on a tablet of wood this inscription , " I do not do this as to Spaniards , but as to robbers and murderers . " The victors , after razing ...
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... trees were felled , and the grounds cleared , domestic animals could afford to the planters no assistance . White men , exposed to the heat of the climate and the terrors of surrounding savages , had alone to encounter the hardships of ...
... trees were felled , and the grounds cleared , domestic animals could afford to the planters no assistance . White men , exposed to the heat of the climate and the terrors of surrounding savages , had alone to encounter the hardships of ...
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... trees and bushes . The Indians made the air resound with their horrid yellings and war - whoops . They sometimes gave way , but returned again and again with double fury to the charge . The Governor kept his troops close at their heels ...
... trees and bushes . The Indians made the air resound with their horrid yellings and war - whoops . They sometimes gave way , but returned again and again with double fury to the charge . The Governor kept his troops close at their heels ...
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... tree of liberty and happiness , under the shade of which the people of South Carolina enjoy as great a proportion of social blessings as in any country or age has fallen to the lot of man . On this memorable day , the aged declared ...
... tree of liberty and happiness , under the shade of which the people of South Carolina enjoy as great a proportion of social blessings as in any country or age has fallen to the lot of man . On this memorable day , the aged declared ...
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... tree peculiar to the South- ern States , which grows from twenty to forty feet high , without branches , and then terminates in something resembling the head of a cabbage . The wood of it is remarkably spongy . A bullet entering it ...
... tree peculiar to the South- ern States , which grows from twenty to forty feet high , without branches , and then terminates in something resembling the head of a cabbage . The wood of it is remarkably spongy . A bullet entering it ...
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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.