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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... regard it as , in some measure , a compact , or rather a sol- emn exposition of the political relation between Britain and America , and each seeking to twist every sentence of it into a deliberate recognition or disclamation , on the ...
... regard it as , in some measure , a compact , or rather a sol- emn exposition of the political relation between Britain and America , and each seeking to twist every sentence of it into a deliberate recognition or disclamation , on the ...
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... regard to their sec- tarian principles , they obstructed every preparation even for defensive war , and suffered the frontiers of the province to be desolated by Indian rage and cruelty ; and all the inhabitants of the colony , but the ...
... regard to their sec- tarian principles , they obstructed every preparation even for defensive war , and suffered the frontiers of the province to be desolated by Indian rage and cruelty ; and all the inhabitants of the colony , but the ...
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... regard to the unmixed virtue and disinterestedness of the founder of Pennsylvania.1 Franklin judged that now was the time to present the petition of the provincial assembly , and to have their cause discussed before the privy council ...
... regard to the unmixed virtue and disinterestedness of the founder of Pennsylvania.1 Franklin judged that now was the time to present the petition of the provincial assembly , and to have their cause discussed before the privy council ...
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... ; and on the whole , the British minister was rather animat- ed to prosecute hostilities , than fixed in decisive purpose with regard to their ultimate issue , by his correspondence with 24 [ BOOK X. HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA .
... ; and on the whole , the British minister was rather animat- ed to prosecute hostilities , than fixed in decisive purpose with regard to their ultimate issue , by his correspondence with 24 [ BOOK X. HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA .
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... regard to their ultimate issue , by his correspondence with Franklin . Quitting the cabinet for the field , we now resume the pro- gress of the war in America . The conquest of Canada was the object to which the most ardent wishes of ...
... regard to their ultimate issue , by his correspondence with Franklin . Quitting the cabinet for the field , we now resume the pro- gress of the war in America . The conquest of Canada was the object to which the most ardent wishes of ...
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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.