Memoir of De Witt Clinton: With an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents, Illustrative of the Principal Events of His Life, 1. köideJ. Seymour, 1829 - 530 pages |
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... falls to the lot of most men . As already intimated , an accident some years since occurred , by which to a certain extent he was necessarily deprived of his accustomed exercise ; although temperate in the extreme in his habits of ...
... falls to the lot of most men . As already intimated , an accident some years since occurred , by which to a certain extent he was necessarily deprived of his accustomed exercise ; although temperate in the extreme in his habits of ...
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... fall by other hands . Although Colonel Clinton was not bred a mariner , he was an excellent mathematician , and could have directed the course of the ship ; but as he never suspected that he would have been denied the use of the ...
... fall by other hands . Although Colonel Clinton was not bred a mariner , he was an excellent mathematician , and could have directed the course of the ship ; but as he never suspected that he would have been denied the use of the ...
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... fall , and remained there until spring , and then sailed for New - Windsor , in Ulster County , where Colonel Charles Clinton , Alexander Deniston , and my father , John Young , bought three farms adjoining to each other , and lived in ...
... fall , and remained there until spring , and then sailed for New - Windsor , in Ulster County , where Colonel Charles Clinton , Alexander Deniston , and my father , John Young , bought three farms adjoining to each other , and lived in ...
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... fall into their hands ; they , however , both remained until it grew dark , and were mixed with the enemy : the Governor escaped in a boat to the east side of the river , and James slid down the very steep bank of a creek which ran near ...
... fall into their hands ; they , however , both remained until it grew dark , and were mixed with the enemy : the Governor escaped in a boat to the east side of the river , and James slid down the very steep bank of a creek which ran near ...
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... fall months , many parents availed themselves of the privilege of sending their younger children ; but owing to the state of the weather , few under three years have attended during the winter . Of those children from three to six years ...
... fall months , many parents availed themselves of the privilege of sending their younger children ; but owing to the state of the weather , few under three years have attended during the winter . Of those children from three to six years ...
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Page 149 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 165 - I recognize in Lancaster the benefactor of the human race. I consider his system as creating a new era in education, as a blessing sent down from heaven to redeem the poor and distressed of this world from the power and dominion of ignorance.
Page 79 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 274 - I have lately made a tour through the Lakes George and Champlain, as far as Crown Point. Then returning to Schenectady, I proceeded up the Mohawk River to Fort Schuyler (formerly Fort Stanwix), and crossed over to the Wood Creek, which empties into the Oneida Lake, and affords the water communication with Ontario.
Page 164 - York for the education of such poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by, any religious society...
Page 279 - Not content then with the bare consciousness of my having in all this navigation business, acted upon the clearest conviction of the political importance of the measure, I would wish that every individual who may hear that it was a favorite plan of mine, may know, also, that I had no other motive for promoting it, than the advantage of which I conceived it would be productive to the Union at large, and to this State in particular, by cementing the Eastern and Western Territory together...
Page iv - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 275 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand.
Page 278 - The Western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way.
Page 157 - I am happy to have it in my power to Say that my worthy friend Cap! Lewis is recovering fast, he walked a little to day for the first time, I have discontinued the tent in the hole the ball came out...
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The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 Paul A. Gilje Limited preview - 1987 |