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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... nature and condition of the country and its inhabitants would admit . They maintained that the law which they had enacted was requisite to enable the provincial magistrates to execute the powers which it conferred upon them , and ...
... nature and condition of the country and its inhabitants would admit . They maintained that the law which they had enacted was requisite to enable the provincial magistrates to execute the powers which it conferred upon them , and ...
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... natural sagacity , aided by the advantage of close and immediate intercourse with a mind as enlarged as his own , might have enabled him to de- tect some fallacy in the reasoning by which the conquest of Canada was recommended . But the ...
... natural sagacity , aided by the advantage of close and immediate intercourse with a mind as enlarged as his own , might have enabled him to de- tect some fallacy in the reasoning by which the conquest of Canada was recommended . But the ...
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... ; his mother being the natural daugh- ter of that monarch and his mistress , Lady Darlington . Stuart's Three Years in North America . suffrage is won , when the possessor of such lofty CHAP . V. ] 27 CONQUEST OF CAPE BRETON .
... ; his mother being the natural daugh- ter of that monarch and his mistress , Lady Darlington . Stuart's Three Years in North America . suffrage is won , when the possessor of such lofty CHAP . V. ] 27 CONQUEST OF CAPE BRETON .
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... nature than an incentive to noble action , and as facilitating the indulgence of an amiable politeness by exempting him from all suspicion of mean , obsequious servility . From the day of his arrival in America , he conformed himself ...
... nature than an incentive to noble action , and as facilitating the indulgence of an amiable politeness by exempting him from all suspicion of mean , obsequious servility . From the day of his arrival in America , he conformed himself ...
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... nature . The French conducted their attack with the utmost courage and spirit , but were encountered with such firm ... natural courage and sagacity . Both his victories " The war in general was distinguished by the singular success of ...
... nature . The French conducted their attack with the utmost courage and spirit , but were encountered with such firm ... natural courage and sagacity . Both his victories " The war in general was distinguished by the singular success of ...
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act of parliament advantage Amer American liberty Annual Register appointed arms army attack authority Boston Britain British empire British government British parliament British troops cabinet Canada Carolina cause colonies colonists command conduct congress conquest considerable countrymen court crown danger declared defence despatched duty effect empire enemy England English exerted expressed farther force Fort Prince George France Franklin French friends garrison genius governor honor hope hostile hundred Hutchinson important independence Indians inhabitants interest king letters Lord Lord Dunmore Lord Loudoun Massachusetts measure ment military ministers nation obtained occasion officers opinion parent partisans party patriotic Pennsylvania persons petition Pitt political politicians popular possessed present principles produced promote province provincial assemblies provoked purpose Quakers Quebec regard remarked rendered repeal resistance resolution royal Samuel Adams savage sentiments Sir William Johnson South Carolina spirit Stamp Act taxes thousand tion town tribes violent Virginia York zeal
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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.