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Page 52 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that Leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Page 168 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Page 249 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 43 - ... lying, and being in that part of South Carolina, in America, which lies from the most northern part of a stream or river...
Page 121 - Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of Georgia, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Page 16 - An Impartial Enquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia...
Page 81 - Carolinean troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies.
Page 17 - People to plant and manufacture any Rice, being a Work only for Negroes, not for European People; but having Experience of the contrary, we laugh at such a Talking, seeing that several People of us have had, in last Harvest, a greater Crop of Rice than they wanted for their own Consumption. Of Corn, Pease, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Cabbage, &c. we had such a good Quantity, that many Bushels are sold, and much was spent in feeding Cows, Calves and Hogs.
Page 183 - Sir: — You cannot be ignorant that four armies are in motion to reduce this Province. One is already under the guns of your fort, and may be joined when I think proper by Col.
Page 125 - Roberts, with about one hundred men, who marched directly up to the town and made prisoners three marines and two sailors belonging to the Hinchinbrooke. " It being late, the galleys did not engage until this morning. You must imagine what my feelings were to see our three little men-of-war going on to the attack of these three...
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| Title | COLLECTIONS OF THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY |
| Author | Charles C. Jones, Jr |
| Published | 1878 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Dec 2006 |
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