Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776, as One of the Commissioners from Congress: With a Memoir and NotesJohn Murphy, 1876 - 110 lappuses |
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33. lappuse - Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion.
33. lappuse - WE are too well acquainted with the liberality of sentiment distinguishing your nation, to imagine that difference of religion will prejudice you against a hearty amity with us.
33. lappuse - Nor can we suppress our astonishment that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
5. lappuse - Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, during his Visit to Canada in 1776, as One of the Commissioners from Congress ; With a Memoir and Notes by Brantz Mayer ... . Published by the Maryland Historical Society.
16. lappuse - Be that as it will, they are unanimous, though privately, against our cause, and I have too much reason to fear many of them, with other people of some consequence, have carried on a correspondence the whole winter with General Carleton in Quebec, and are now plotting our destruction.
48. lappuse - About five o'clock wind breezed up from the south ; got under way, and ran with a pretty easy gale as far as the highlands, forty miles from New York. The river here is greatly contracted, and the lands on each side very lofty. When we got into this strait the wind increased, and blew in violent flaws; in doubling one of these steep craggy points we were in danger of running on the rocks ; endeavored to double the cape called St. Anthony's nose, but all our efforts proved ineffectual; obliged to...
34. lappuse - Oh ! the perfidious double-faced Congress ; let us bless and obey our benevolent Prince, whose Humanity is consistent, and extends to all Religions, let us abhor all who would seduce us from our Loyalty, by Acts that would dishonour a Jesuit, and whose Addresses like their Resolves, are destructive of their own Object.
58. lappuse - I begin to apprehend that I have undertaken a fatigue, that, at my time of life, may prove too much for me ; so I sit down to write to a few friends by way of farewell.
41. lappuse - We can not find words strong enough to describe our miserable situation; you will have a faint idea of it if you figure to yourself an army broken and disheartened, half of it under inoculation, or under other diseases; soldiers without pay, without discipline, and altogether reduced to live from hand to mouth, depending on the scanty and precarious supplies of a few half-starved cattle, and trifling quantities of flour, which have hitherto been picked up in different parts of the country.
76. lappuse - ... the evening of the 17th of May, Arnold was within thirty miles of St. John's ; and, as the weather was calm, he fitted out two batteaux with thirty-five men, leaving the schooner behind and proceeding to St. John's, where he arrived at six o'clock the next morning, surprised and took a sergeant and twelve men, and the king's sloop of about seventy tons with two brass six-pounders and seven men, without any loss on either side. The wind proving favorable, he stayed but two hours and then returned,...