The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence, Том 4Smith, Elder and Company, 1836 - 462 стор. |
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... French to the misconduct of the American troops or the pro- vincial governments . It is unlikely , notwithstanding the arrogance of his disposition and the narrowness of his capa- city , that he could have expected to stimulate the ...
... French to the misconduct of the American troops or the pro- vincial governments . It is unlikely , notwithstanding the arrogance of his disposition and the narrowness of his capa- city , that he could have expected to stimulate the ...
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... French commander , availing himself of the unskilful movements by which Lord Loudoun had withdrawn so large a portion of the British force from New York to Ha- lifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort ...
... French commander , availing himself of the unskilful movements by which Lord Loudoun had withdrawn so large a portion of the British force from New York to Ha- lifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort ...
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... French for eighteen months ; that they should march out with the honours of war ; and , retain- ing their private baggage , be escorted to Fort Edward by French troops , as a security against the lawless ferocity of the Indians . But ...
... French for eighteen months ; that they should march out with the honours of war ; and , retain- ing their private baggage , be escorted to Fort Edward by French troops , as a security against the lawless ferocity of the Indians . But ...
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... French , who , it was feared , would not only make an easy conquest of Fort Edward , but penetrate to Albany . So zealously was this service undertaken by Massachusetts , that a large extent of its own frontier was stripped of its ...
... French , who , it was feared , would not only make an easy conquest of Fort Edward , but penetrate to Albany . So zealously was this service undertaken by Massachusetts , that a large extent of its own frontier was stripped of its ...
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... French : -a result which had been witnessed with in- creasing resentment and impatience in England . It was a circumstance additionally irritating and mortifying to this people , that the few advantages which had been gained over the French ...
... French : -a result which had been witnessed with in- creasing resentment and impatience in England . It was a circumstance additionally irritating and mortifying to this people , that the few advantages which had been gained over the French ...
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Сторінка 368 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Сторінка 201 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Сторінка 230 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Сторінка 387 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Сторінка 190 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Сторінка 190 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Сторінка 368 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Сторінка 454 - It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son ; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune and life, were all at stake.
Сторінка 191 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be...
Сторінка 362 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there, and above all for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...