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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... appoint- ment in the spring of the preceding year ; and again , in the autumn , after a short expulsion from office , was reinstated Change of in it more firmly than before . The vigour and capacity of the British Ministry this ...
... appoint- ment in the spring of the preceding year ; and again , in the autumn , after a short expulsion from office , was reinstated Change of in it more firmly than before . The vigour and capacity of the British Ministry this ...
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... appoint the officers of their various regiments . They were assured that it was the king's determination , by the most vigorous and expensive efforts , to repair the losses and disappointments of the last inactive and unhappy cam- paign ...
... appoint the officers of their various regiments . They were assured that it was the king's determination , by the most vigorous and expensive efforts , to repair the losses and disappointments of the last inactive and unhappy cam- paign ...
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... appointed agent for the colonies of Massachusetts , Maryland , and Georgia . It was a circumstance additionally gratifying to the people of Pennsylvania , that Denny was removed in the year 1759 , from the government of the province ...
... appointed agent for the colonies of Massachusetts , Maryland , and Georgia . It was a circumstance additionally gratifying to the people of Pennsylvania , that Denny was removed in the year 1759 , from the government of the province ...
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... appointed to be used on the occa- sion in all the churches of England . The sentiments of the parent state were re - echoed in America ; where the people of New England , more especially , partook the warmth of an ex- ultation that ...
... appointed to be used on the occa- sion in all the churches of England . The sentiments of the parent state were re - echoed in America ; where the people of New England , more especially , partook the warmth of an ex- ultation that ...
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... appointed com- mander - in - chief of the forces in America.1 If France , whose American policy had been the offspring of a vaulting un- measured ambition , was capable of profiting by the lessons she received in this campaign , perhaps ...
... appointed com- mander - in - chief of the forces in America.1 If France , whose American policy had been the offspring of a vaulting un- measured ambition , was capable of profiting by the lessons she received in this campaign , perhaps ...
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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...