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Military Journal, During the American Revolutionary War, From 1775 to 1783: Describing the Events and Transactions of This Period, With Numerous Historical Facts and Anecdotes. E-book. Formato PDF James Thacher - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
IT is through your earnest solicitations, my dear friends, that I commit to public inspection the crude fragments recorded in my Military Journal, kept during the American Revolutionary War. The subordinate station which I sustained did not permit access to the great source from which all important events derived their origin; nor was I made acquainted with the views and motives of action. The transactions and occurrences which I shall relate, though of minor import, and penned for temporary amusement, are nevertheless of a nature too deeply interesting to be consigned to obliv ion. N o circumstance pertaining to our country's emancipation, but should be embalmed in the memory of our children, and transmitted to the latest posterity, as among the most interesting transactions recorded in the annals of man. When we contemplate the vastly-extended consequences of our revolution, it will be conceded that every incident respecting its rise and progress, and the renowned patriots and heroes by whom it was achieved. Is well worthy of perpetual remembrance. With these are associated the primary principles of the rights of man, which so successfully prevailed at the period of our country's infancy. Those principles, which are the great spring of action in the bosom of the honest patriot, Spurn the power and paralyze the hearts of tyrants. The contents of these sheets refer more to details of military mancsuvres and the internal police of camps, than to projects and events which decide the fate of nations: they may, however, afi'ord amusement to the inquisitive mind, and, to the rising generation, precepts not altogether destitute of importance and useful instruction. They will disclose some interesting particulars, not generally known, and may serve to augment the stock of information developing the fatal policy of the British government, as displayed on the theatre of her American colonies. This production may, moreover, subserve the purpose of an epitome of the history of the revolutionary contest, and abridge in some measure the labor of the youthful mind in the study of the more elaborate and technical histories of that ever-memorable epoch. With this view, I have prefixed a short sketch of interesting transactions prior to the actual commencement of hostilities. History, says a late elegant writer, pre sents no struggle for liberty which has in it more of the moral sublime than that of the American revolution. It has been of late years too much forgotten in the sharp contentions of party; and he who endeavors to with draw the public mind from these debasing con?icts, and to fix it on the grandeur of that epoch, which, magnificent in itself, begins now to wear'
The American Orchardist: Or a Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of Apple and Other Fruit Trees, With Observations on the Diseases to Which They Are Liable, and Their Remedies. E-book. Formato PDF James Thacher - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Gentlemen:Presuming upon your acquiesence, I introduce to your notice this little practical treatise upon one of the most interesting and pleasing branches pertaining to the science of agriculture. The utility of a cheap publication of this kind, for the information and encouragement of our farmers, is unquestionable. If this humble attempt should meet your approbation, and be found to possess a degree of merit calculated to co-operate with your zealous efforts to promote agricultural pursuits and improvements in our country, a knowledge of your character is an ample pledge that you will not withhold your patronage and favour. If, however, it shall appear that 1 have subjected myself to the accusation of having stepped beyond the limits, within which my actual knowledge should be confined, then will a consciousness of laudable motives, of assiduity and fidelity in the collection of experimental facts, remain as my only consolation. I am not unapprized of the almost invincible prejudice, which prevails among our farmers, against what they term "book-farming," "book-knowledge," &c.&c. ;and the anecdote is fresh in my memory, of an honest farmer, who, on being inquired of Why his neighbour's farm was not productive, replied, because he has booked it to death. These prejudices exist chiefly among those, whose minds are unenlightened, and views unexpanded by that useful knowledge, which is only to be acquired by reading. It must be conceded that almost all improvements are derived from the records of practice and observation; and when we have reason and experience to support, and plain facts to confirm, we may become less tenacious of the rules of our fathers, believing that it may be the reserved privilege of the children, to acquire the skill of producing two spires of grass where their fathers produced but one.
A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War, From 1775 to 1783. E-book. Formato PDF James Thacher - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
It may be deemed reproachful to our country, that nearly half a century has elapsed since the American colonies were emancipated from British thrald om, and that we are yet unfurnished with proper biographical memoirs of the renowned patriots and heroes whose unparalleled efforts under Providence, achieved the inestimable blessings of liberty and freedom. No characters assuredly, are more worthv to excite the curiosity and gratitude of posterity than those who contributed so largely to the establishment of our invaluable civil and religious privileges under a re publican constitution. The immortal chieftain, ia deed, and his illustrious compeer, General Greene, can receive no additional memorials from any labors in my power to bestow. I might incur the imputa tion of arrogance were I to imagine myself competent to the duty of portraying in a just light the char acters of those whose revered names are introduced into the appendix of this work. I can only claim the merit of having exerted my best efforts to pro cure documents and assistance, and to illustrate their qualities under the guidance of the legitimate prin ciples of impartiality and justice. Should posterity inquire why their ancestors, destitute of military education or experience, abandoned their peaceful abodes to encounter the perils of uncertain warfare let them be told it was not to execute the mandates of a tyrant in subjugating their fellow men, but it.