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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... command of Admiral Hol- borne and Commodore Holmes , and containing six thousand disciplined soldiers , conducted by George Viscount Howe , arrived accordingly at Halifax , whither Lord Loudoun shortly July . after repaired , along with ...
... command of Admiral Hol- borne and Commodore Holmes , and containing six thousand disciplined soldiers , conducted by George Viscount Howe , arrived accordingly at Halifax , whither Lord Loudoun shortly July . after repaired , along with ...
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... commands that the justices should grant the accommodation that had been required from them ; declaring that in his opinion the act of parliament did extend to America , and to every part of his majesty's dominions where the public ...
... commands that the justices should grant the accommodation that had been required from them ; declaring that in his opinion the act of parliament did extend to America , and to every part of his majesty's dominions where the public ...
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... command of the royal forces was conferred on General Abercrombie . 1 1 The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the discomfiture of the English and the triumph of the French : -a result which had been ...
... command of the royal forces was conferred on General Abercrombie . 1 1 The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the discomfiture of the English and the triumph of the French : -a result which had been ...
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... command was exercised by General Wolfe , one of the most heroic and magnanimous spirits of the age.1 Abercrombie , on whom the chief command of the entire forces employed in this quarter of the world , had de- volved , was now at the ...
... command was exercised by General Wolfe , one of the most heroic and magnanimous spirits of the age.1 Abercrombie , on whom the chief command of the entire forces employed in this quarter of the world , had de- volved , was now at the ...
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... command of Lord Loudoun , was disallowed by the governor , because the estates of the proprietaries were not exempted from the assessment which it imposed . Lord Loudoun endeavoured to mediate between the disputants , whose respective ...
... command of Lord Loudoun , was disallowed by the governor , because the estates of the proprietaries were not exempted from the assessment which it imposed . Lord Loudoun endeavoured to mediate between the disputants , whose respective ...
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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...