The History of the United States of North America: From the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Assumption of National Independence, المجلد 4Lea and Blanchard, 1845 |
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... farther defended by seventeen line - of - battle ships moored in the harbour , and which arrived while the British troops lingered inactively at Halifax . Lord Loudoun , accounting the armament he com- manded unequal to cope with this ...
... farther defended by seventeen line - of - battle ships moored in the harbour , and which arrived while the British troops lingered inactively at Halifax . Lord Loudoun , accounting the armament he com- manded unequal to cope with this ...
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... farther parley , but , having already sufficiently confuted the reasoning of the provincials , he was prepared to adopt more vigorous meas- ures for obtaining their obedience , and preventing the whole continent from being thrown into ...
... farther parley , but , having already sufficiently confuted the reasoning of the provincials , he was prepared to adopt more vigorous meas- ures for obtaining their obedience , and preventing the whole continent from being thrown into ...
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... farther ten- dered his own personal assurance that the colonists had hon- estly endeavoured to give to the recruiting service every facility which was compatible with the peculiar circumstances of the country . This assurance , unless ...
... farther ten- dered his own personal assurance that the colonists had hon- estly endeavoured to give to the recruiting service every facility which was compatible with the peculiar circumstances of the country . This assurance , unless ...
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... farther engage in circumstances more interesting , the two houses ( the assembly and council ) com- posing the General Court , after thanking the governor for his good offices in their behalf , denied the justice of Lord Lou- doun's ...
... farther engage in circumstances more interesting , the two houses ( the assembly and council ) com- posing the General Court , after thanking the governor for his good offices in their behalf , denied the justice of Lord Lou- doun's ...
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... farther growth , to cramp their commerce , and continually to overawe them , and attack them with advantage . The spirit of the English nation , which had been kindling for some time , was in this emergency provoked to a pitch that ...
... farther growth , to cramp their commerce , and continually to overawe them , and attack them with advantage . The spirit of the English nation , which had been kindling for some time , was in this emergency provoked to a pitch that ...
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الصفحة 393 - 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.
الصفحة 209 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
الصفحة 239 - 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.
الصفحة 501 - 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.
الصفحة 500 - midst the roar Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington ? Has Earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore ? XCVII.
الصفحة 384 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
الصفحة 465 - But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
الصفحة 198 - 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.
الصفحة 393 - 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.
الصفحة 142 - Lord Bishop of London and that no other person now there or that shall come from other parts shall be admitted to keep school in North Carolina without your license first obtained.