Sketches of Newport and Its Vicinity: With Notices Respecting the History, Settlement and Geography of Rhode Island. Illustrated with EngravingsJ. S. Taylor & Company, 1842 - 213 páginas |
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Página 132 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Página 210 - Skirmishing continued between the advanced parties until near ten o'clock, when the enemy's two ships of war and some small armed vessels, having gained our right flank and began a fire, the enemy bent their whole force that way, and endeavored to turn our right, under cover of the ship's fire, and to take the advanced redoubt on the right. They were...
Página 151 - twas not long 'fore it fell out, That William Dudingston, so stout, Commander of the Gaspee tender, Which he has reason to remember, Because, as people do assert, He almost had his just desert; Here, on the tenth day of last June, Betwixt the hours of twelve and one, Did chase the sloop, called the Hannah, Of whom, one Lindsay, was commander.
Página 201 - The following notice of this nobleman is taken from the Newport Mercury 1832 : — "On the first of February last, died at Kinsale, the Right Hon. Thomas De Courcy, Lord Kinsale, Baron De Courcy and Ringrone. His Lordship was the Premier Baron of Ireland, and enjoyed the hereditary privilege of wearing his hat in the royal presence, granted to John De Courcy, Earl of Ulster, by King John, and lately exercised by Lord John De Courcy, at a Court held in Dublin Castle by George Fourth, in 1S21.
Página 212 - Boston ; he was sensibly mortified that he was not in the action. That he might not be out of the way in case of one, he had rode from the inland to Boston, 70 miles in seven hours, and returned in six and a half.
Página 208 - D'Estaing in any event to leave his land forces. All the general officers, excepting Lafayette, joined in signing and sending a protest against the departure of the fleet to Boston, as derogatory to the honor of France, contrary to the intention of his most Christian Majesty and the interest of his nation, destructive of the welfare of the United States, and highly injurious to the alliance formed between the two nations.
Página 44 - The Trustees are thirtysix in number of whom twenty-two must be Baptists, five of the denomination of Friends, five Episcopalians and four Congregationalists. The same proportions of the different denominations is to endure perpetually.
Página 211 - Livingston did themselves great honor in the transactions of the day. But it is not in my power to do justice to Col. Laurens who acted both the general and partisan. His command of regular troops was small, but he did every thing possible to be done by their numbers.
Página 213 - Prescott, the commanding officer of the royal army at Newport. Taking with him, in the night, about forty men, in two boats, with oars muffled, he had the address to elude the vigilance of the ships-of-war and guard-boats : and, having arrived undiscovered at the quarters of Gen.
Página 150 - Twas in the reign of George the Third, Our public peace was much disturbed By ships of war, that came and laid Within our ports, to stop our trade.