The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 4

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John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson
Henry B. Dawson, 1860

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Page 103 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 20 - An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies...
Page 205 - The numerous transactions were conducted without confusion, and with entire regard to justice, under the inspection of magistrates appointed for the purpose. The traffic was carried on partly by barter, and partly by means of a regulated currency, of different values. This consisted of transparent quills of gold dust ; of bits of tin, cut in the form of a T ; and of bags of cacao, containing a specified number of grains.
Page 153 - Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
Page 103 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Page 146 - I do not know how the mis-statement in the printed journals has happened. The manuscript public journal has no names annexed to the Declaration of Independence, nor has the secret journal ; but it appears by the latter that on the...
Page 86 - There can be but little doubt, Sir, of our descending from the same stock, as the branches of it proceeded from the same country. At what time your ancestors left England is not mentioned. Mine came to America nearly one hundred and fifty years ago...
Page 123 - ... of the merit of the work you propose to honor me with the dedication of. Nothing can give me more pleasure, than to patronize the essays of genius, and a laudable cultivation of the arts and sciences, which had begun to flourish in so eminent a degree, before the hand of oppression was stretched over our devoted country ; and I shall esteem myself happy, if a poem, which has employed the labor of years, will derive any advantage, or bear more weight in the world, by making its appearance under...
Page 19 - I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian Printer, that is able to compose the sheets, and correct the press with understanding.
Page 127 - River ; embracing the Minutes of the Secret Committee appointed by the Provincial Convention of New York, July 16, 1776, and other Original Documents relating to the Subject ; together with papers relating to the Beacons ; with a map ; edited by EM Ruttenber, and annotated by the Publifher.

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