A Boston Merchant of 1745, Or, Incidents in the Life of James Gibson, a Gentleman Volunteer at the Expedition to Louisburg: With a Journal of that Siege, Never Before Published in this Country, Volume 1745Redding, 1847 - 102 pages |
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Page 47 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Page 51 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Page 79 - This gentleman, I say, told me that he had not had his clothes off his back, either by night or day, from the first commencement of the siege. He added, moreover, that in all the histories he had ever read, he never met with an instance of so bold and presumptuous an attempt...
Page 21 - On a high cliff, opposite to the island battery, stood a lighthouse; and within this point, at the north-east part of the harbor, was a careening wharf secure from all winds, and a magazine of naval stores. The town was regularly laid out in squares. The streets were broad ; the houses mostly of wood, but some of stone.
Page 24 - ... if it should succeed, many would regard him with envy, and endeavor to eclipse his glory ; that he ought, therefore, to go with a ' single eye,' and then he would find his strength proportioned to his necessity.
Page 20 - ... circumference, fortified in every accessible part, with a rampart of stone from thirty to thirty-six feet high, and a ditch eighty feet wide ; a space of about two hundred yards was left without a rampart, on the side next to the sea, and inclosed by a simple dike and pickets.
Page 21 - It was, in peace, a safe retreat for the ships of France bound homeward from the East and West Indies; and in war, a source of distress to the northern English Colonies; its situation being extremely favorable for privateers to ruin their fishery and interrupt .their coasting and foreign trade ; for which reasons, the reduction of it was an object as desirable to them, as that of Carthage was to the Romans.
Page 20 - It was environed, two miles and a half in circumference, with a rampart of stone from thirty to thirty-six feet high, and a ditch eighty feet wide, with the exception of a. space of two hundred yards near the sea, which was inclosed by a dyke and a line of pickets.
Page 80 - ... ever saw such courage and intrepidity in such a handful of men, who regarded neither shot nor bombs. But what was still more surprising than all the rest, he said, was this, namely, to see batteries raised in a night's time, and more particularly the Fascine battery, which was not fiveand-twenty rods from the city wall ; and to see guns that were forty-two pounders dragged by the English from their grand battery, notwithstanding it was two miles distant, at least, and the road, too, very rough.