Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 23, 2025
Toward the end of July, 1755, when the Indian outrages upon the New River settlements in Virginia had frightened away all the families at the Town Fork in the Yadkin country, William Owen, a man of Welsh stock, who had settled in the spring of 1752 in the upper Yadkin near the Mulberry Fields, was suspected of having robbed the storekeeper on the Meho.
The legend connected with which is, that during one of the sieges of 1752, the Queen of Spain came to this eminence to witness the assault and capture of the place, and vowed she would not descend therefrom until the flag of Spain should wave from the Rock.
I love children. Two or three manly sons are a present to the world, and the father that offers them sees with satisfaction that he is to live in his successors. He was thinking more gravely of a still higher thing when he wrote on his twenty-fifth birthday, January 2, 1752, to reassure his mother about the strength of his religion.
There were troubles likewise in various other colonies, as with insurgents in Antigua in 1701 and 1736 and Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1752; with maroons in Grenada in 1765, Dominica in 1785 and Demarara in 1794; and with conspirators in Cuba in 1825 and St. Croix and Porto Rico in 1848.
Carter to see the Tragedy of George Barnwell acted." In 1752 he attended a performance at Fredericksburg and thereafter, whenever occasion offered, which during his earlier years was not often, he took advantage of it. He even expressed a desire to act himself.
When Lawrence developed consumption, George was his travelling companion in a trip to Barbadoes, and from him, when he died of that disease, in 1752, came the bequest of Mount Vernon to "my loveing brother George."
The Germans are very seldom troubled with any extraordinary ebullitions or effervescenses of wit, and it is not prudent to try it upon them; whoever does, 'ofendet solido'. Remember to write me very minute accounts of all your transactions at Hanover, for they excite both my impatience and anxiety. Adieu! LONDON, August 4, O. S. 1752
He is going to have a fly; and it is famous weather for the sport, for it is in June June 1752. The kite is but a rough one, for Ben has made it himself, out of a silk-handkerchief stretched over two cross-sticks.
My advice is just eight-and-twenty years older than your own, and consequently, I believe you think, rather better. As for your tender and pleasurable passions, manage them yourself; but let me have the direction of all the others. Your ambition, your figure, and your fortune, will, for some time at least, be rather safer in my keeping than in your own. Adieu. BATH, October 4, 1752
His work is very unequal, but often, as in Margaret, contains fine and true descriptive passages both of nature and character. Miscellaneous writer, s. of Geo. H., of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate in 1723, and raised to the Bench in 1752. In 1748 he pub. a collection of Decisions of the Court of Session.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking