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Page 73
... foot for plant- ing a new colony in Georgia . The tasks and course of life of sea - faring men are not to be learned in an instant ; their employment is a laborious trade , to be acquired only by application and industry . Money will ...
... foot for plant- ing a new colony in Georgia . The tasks and course of life of sea - faring men are not to be learned in an instant ; their employment is a laborious trade , to be acquired only by application and industry . Money will ...
Page 89
... foot water in the shoalest part . We came to an anchor within Tybee . Mr. Oglethorpe went ' ashore to see what progress was made in the light house ; he found the foundation had been piled but the brick - work not raised . The materials ...
... foot water in the shoalest part . We came to an anchor within Tybee . Mr. Oglethorpe went ' ashore to see what progress was made in the light house ; he found the foundation had been piled but the brick - work not raised . The materials ...
Page 90
... foot wide at bottom , ninety feet high , and ten foot wide at top It is of the best of pine , strongly timbered , raised upon . cedar piles , and brick - work round the bottom . It will be , when raised , of great service to all ...
... foot wide at bottom , ninety feet high , and ten foot wide at top It is of the best of pine , strongly timbered , raised upon . cedar piles , and brick - work round the bottom . It will be , when raised , of great service to all ...
Page 93
... foot , floored with rough deals , the sides with feather - edged boards unplaned , and the roof shingled . On the 9th , I heard that the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer were very discontended ; that they demanded to leave their old town , and ...
... foot , floored with rough deals , the sides with feather - edged boards unplaned , and the roof shingled . On the 9th , I heard that the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer were very discontended ; that they demanded to leave their old town , and ...
Page 94
... foot of the hill , which is a hard , clear , sandy beach , a mile in length ; the water is fresh , and the river one thousand foot wide . Eastward you see the river increased by the northern branch , which runs round Hutchinson's island ...
... foot of the hill , which is a hard , clear , sandy beach , a mile in length ; the water is fresh , and the river one thousand foot wide . Eastward you see the river increased by the northern branch , which runs round Hutchinson's island ...
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Page 52 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 184 - America aforesaid, extending north and eastward as far as the north end of Currituck river or inlet, upon a straight westerly line to Wyonoak creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirty-six and thirty minutes, northern latitude ; and so west in a direct line, as far as the South seas...
Page 12 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 8 - Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Page 12 - The great simplicity, as well as solemnity of the whole, almost made me forget the seventeen hundred years between, and imagine myself in one of those assemblies where form and state were not; but Paul the tent-maker, or Peter the fisherman presided; yet with the demonstration of the spirit and of power.
Page 203 - Reasons for establishing the colony of Georgia, with regard to the trade of Great Britain...
Page 8 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.
Page 296 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 8 - Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery.
Page 270 - Carolinean troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The navy being short of provisions, and the usual season of hurricanes approaching, the commander judged it imprudent to hazard his majesty's ships, by remaining longer on that coast. Last of all, the general himself, sick of a fever, and his regiment worn out with fatigue, and rendered unfit for action by a flux, with sorrow and regret followed, and reached Frederica...