Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the RevolutionW. Williams, 1828 - 262 pages |
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... British Parliament in 1765 , the year of my birth . This act excited a general alarm among the Amer- ican Colonists . Resolutions were passed against this act by most of the colonial assemblies . I had breathed but a few days when ten ...
... British Parliament in 1765 , the year of my birth . This act excited a general alarm among the Amer- ican Colonists . Resolutions were passed against this act by most of the colonial assemblies . I had breathed but a few days when ten ...
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... British transports of but little value . Having replenished our provisions and water , we put to sea on another cruise , on the coast of Florida and the southern states . While on this cruise a memorable event took place with me . On ...
... British transports of but little value . Having replenished our provisions and water , we put to sea on another cruise , on the coast of Florida and the southern states . While on this cruise a memorable event took place with me . On ...
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... British ships of war to leeward of us , the land being in sight to windward , the enemy gave us chase . We beat up to Charleston Bar , came to anchor , and waited a little while for the tide to rise , and then ran in and came to an ...
... British ships of war to leeward of us , the land being in sight to windward , the enemy gave us chase . We beat up to Charleston Bar , came to anchor , and waited a little while for the tide to rise , and then ran in and came to an ...
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... British ha- , ving crossed Ashley river , broke ground on the night of the first of April , within eight hundred yards of our lines . About the 9th , the British fleet lying within the bar having a fresh wind in their favor , ventured ...
... British ha- , ving crossed Ashley river , broke ground on the night of the first of April , within eight hundred yards of our lines . About the 9th , the British fleet lying within the bar having a fresh wind in their favor , ventured ...
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... British by Sir Henry Clinton . Our officers were paroled and allowed to retain their waiters , we were consequently allowed to be at large within the city . We were for several days entirely destitute of provisions , except muscles ...
... British by Sir Henry Clinton . Our officers were paroled and allowed to retain their waiters , we were consequently allowed to be at large within the city . We were for several days entirely destitute of provisions , except muscles ...
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Page 258 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Page 258 - If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Page 258 - Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 21 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Page 161 - In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord : my sore ran in the night, and ceased not : my soul refused to be comforted.
Page 156 - I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, Even praise unto our God : Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in the Lord.
Page 164 - It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Page 141 - And Jesus said. For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Page 258 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 256 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.