The Scotch-Irish: Or, The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902 |
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Page 59
... marched to the relief of the Connecticut settlers at Wyo- ming , but arrived two days after that settlement had been burned , and its inhabitants killed , imprisoned , or driven off by the Indians . They buried the dead bodies of those ...
... marched to the relief of the Connecticut settlers at Wyo- ming , but arrived two days after that settlement had been burned , and its inhabitants killed , imprisoned , or driven off by the Indians . They buried the dead bodies of those ...
Page 60
... marched to Lancaster , broke open the jail , and with the fury of a mob massacred every Indian contained therein , man , woman , and child . This is said by some to have been the first instance of the operation of lynch law in America ...
... marched to Lancaster , broke open the jail , and with the fury of a mob massacred every Indian contained therein , man , woman , and child . This is said by some to have been the first instance of the operation of lynch law in America ...
Page 118
... rumors are rife . People began to dread a massacre . The Council had dissolved . The military had been marched into England . There was a dissolution of all authority . The peasantry 118 The Scotch - Irish Families of America.
... rumors are rife . People began to dread a massacre . The Council had dissolved . The military had been marched into England . There was a dissolution of all authority . The peasantry 118 The Scotch - Irish Families of America.
Page 119
... marched the inmates to the door , took possession of the keys ; and on next Sunday a preacher who had till lately been skulking among the hills , was found in the pulpit thundering against persecuting prelatists . These rabblings went ...
... marched the inmates to the door , took possession of the keys ; and on next Sunday a preacher who had till lately been skulking among the hills , was found in the pulpit thundering against persecuting prelatists . These rabblings went ...
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... marched over the border to fight Macbeth . The danger was soon dispelled . In 1054 a Northumbrian fleet appeared off the Scottish coast , and a Northumbrian army met Mac- beth and his Orkney allies in a desperate battle . The English ...
... marched over the border to fight Macbeth . The danger was soon dispelled . In 1054 a Northumbrian fleet appeared off the Scottish coast , and a Northumbrian army met Mac- beth and his Orkney allies in a desperate battle . The English ...
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Popular passages
Page 41 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 38 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 72 - ... it is not the cause of a poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every freeman that lives under a British government on the main of America! It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty...
Page 437 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 335 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver and tortured them with pains unspeakable ; for never were any martyrs tortured as these were.
Page 206 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea throws us back on the barbarians : thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned.
Page 56 - Otis was a flame of fire. With a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity, and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away everything before him. American independence was then and there born ; the seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth, the non sine diis animosus infant.
Page 39 - States, except in cases of impeachment; to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 41 - States,' and have consequently become parts of the Constitution. To this process the country is indebted for the clause prohibiting Congress from passing any law respecting an establishment of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or of the right of petition.
Page 41 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted: 10.