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Page 19
... leaving a quantity of military stores and provisions with several pieces of cannon . Thus , by the firmness , skill and ingenuity of the General , was the colony rescued from the impending danger of total destruction . The tempest which ...
... leaving a quantity of military stores and provisions with several pieces of cannon . Thus , by the firmness , skill and ingenuity of the General , was the colony rescued from the impending danger of total destruction . The tempest which ...
Page 20
... leave it , never to return to Georgia . He had watch- ed over it with paternal solicitude and care he had en ... leaving behind him a character combin- ing all that was lovely in generosity , benevolence and phi- lanthropy , with the ...
... leave it , never to return to Georgia . He had watch- ed over it with paternal solicitude and care he had en ... leaving behind him a character combin- ing all that was lovely in generosity , benevolence and phi- lanthropy , with the ...
Page 25
... leaving only daughters , the land reverted to the Trustees . The monstrous injustice of this principle of Salic law , so revolting to the best feelings and affections of our nature , renders its adoption and application , as a public ...
... leaving only daughters , the land reverted to the Trustees . The monstrous injustice of this principle of Salic law , so revolting to the best feelings and affections of our nature , renders its adoption and application , as a public ...
Page 29
... leave the colony for a while , to glance at one or two topics which merit a passing notice . The aborigines of this continent have always constituted a fruitful subject of interest and curious investigation . At the settlement of ...
... leave the colony for a while , to glance at one or two topics which merit a passing notice . The aborigines of this continent have always constituted a fruitful subject of interest and curious investigation . At the settlement of ...
Page 38
... the national pride and vanity into an admiration for delusive , unreal and unsubstantial objects . An hundred generations the leaves of autumn have dropt into the grave , and yet the pyramids stand erect 38 Judge Law's Oration .
... the national pride and vanity into an admiration for delusive , unreal and unsubstantial objects . An hundred generations the leaves of autumn have dropt into the grave , and yet the pyramids stand erect 38 Judge Law's Oration .
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