History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Seal comiaoiilj Du Siinitieres Design. G84 THE SEAL AND AHMS OF IIIE UNrTEI) STATES. ^vantouly reclining on the ground, displa^iiig the clinrnis hoth of liereloquence and person to seduce him into vice. Jefrerson proposed The Cliildren uf Israel in the Wilderness, ledby a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; and on the othersi
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . Seal comiaoiilj Du Siinitieres Design. G84 THE SEAL AND AHMS OF IIIE UNrTEI) STATES. ^vantouly reclining on the ground, displa^iiig the clinrnis hoth of liereloquence and person to seduce him into vice. Jefrerson proposed The Cliildren uf Israel in the Wilderness, ledby a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; and on the otherside, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs, from whom we claim thehonor of being descended, and whose political principles and form ofovernment we have assumed. At the request of the other members of the committee, Jeffersonattempted to combine the several ideas presented in one compactdesign, and on the 10th of August, 1776, the committee reported thefollowing device and explanation thereof, which was ordered to Lieupon the table : —
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