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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... forces he had collected at New York . He now proclaimed his intention of declining for the present all active operations against Crown Point or Ticonderoga , and of uniting his whole dis- posable force in an expedition to Cape Breton ...
... forces he had collected at New York . He now proclaimed his intention of declining for the present all active operations against Crown Point or Ticonderoga , and of uniting his whole dis- posable force in an expedition to Cape Breton ...
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... force from New York to Halifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men and laid siege to Fort William Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops , partly English and partly American , com- manded by a brave ...
... force from New York to Halifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men and laid siege to Fort William Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops , partly English and partly American , com- manded by a brave ...
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... force what they had refused to argument . Hoping at once to satisfy Lord Loudoun and pre- serve their privileges , the assembly passed a law [ December 6 ] , of which the provisions were somewhat , though by no means entirely , similar ...
... force what they had refused to argument . Hoping at once to satisfy Lord Loudoun and pre- serve their privileges , the assembly passed a law [ December 6 ] , of which the provisions were somewhat , though by no means entirely , similar ...
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... force to an act of parliament , but to regulate a case to which no act of parliament was applicable . " We are willing , " they declared , " by a due exercise of the powers of civil government ( and we have the pleasure of see- ing your ...
... force to an act of parliament , but to regulate a case to which no act of parliament was applicable . " We are willing , " they declared , " by a due exercise of the powers of civil government ( and we have the pleasure of see- ing your ...
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... force at his dis- posal , the assembly required him to specify all the particulars of the service in which he ... forces was delegated to General Abercrombie.1 - The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the ...
... force at his dis- posal , the assembly required him to specify all the particulars of the service in which he ... forces was delegated to General Abercrombie.1 - The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the ...
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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.