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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... did not extend to foreign troops . London Annual Register for 1758 . Smollett . So little was the liberty of the press understood or enjoyed in England at X. 1757 . BOOK and that they had no authority NORTH AMERICA . 9.
... did not extend to foreign troops . London Annual Register for 1758 . Smollett . So little was the liberty of the press understood or enjoyed in England at X. 1757 . BOOK and that they had no authority NORTH AMERICA . 9.
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James Grahame. X. 1757 . BOOK and that they had no authority to grant billets without the sanction of the legislative ... authorities were still refractory , he protested that he would instantly give orders to three battalions of British ...
James Grahame. X. 1757 . BOOK and that they had no authority to grant billets without the sanction of the legislative ... authorities were still refractory , he protested that he would instantly give orders to three battalions of British ...
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... authority . Lord Loudoun , however , though perfectly aware that no alteration of circumstances had oc- curred since he had commanded the troops to march , thought proper to lay hold of the overture for reconciliation which had thus ...
... authority . Lord Loudoun , however , though perfectly aware that no alteration of circumstances had oc- curred since he had commanded the troops to march , thought proper to lay hold of the overture for reconciliation which had thus ...
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... authority among them , he was speedily undeceived . Early in the following year , he summoned a convention of the governors of New England and February . New York to meet him at Hartford , in Connecticut : but find- ing after some ...
... authority among them , he was speedily undeceived . Early in the following year , he summoned a convention of the governors of New England and February . New York to meet him at Hartford , in Connecticut : but find- ing after some ...
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... authority had rendered him not merely the leader of the French , but the main spring of all their conduct and ex- ertions , seemed to have confounded the spirit and paralysed : V. the vigour of this garrison , whose early 56 THE HISTORY OF.
... authority had rendered him not merely the leader of the French , but the main spring of all their conduct and ex- ertions , seemed to have confounded the spirit and paralysed : V. the vigour of this garrison , whose early 56 THE HISTORY OF.
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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...