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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... whole , " says Franklin , " I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army ; but , having since seen more of the great world , and the means of obtaining and motives for ...
... whole , " says Franklin , " I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army ; but , having since seen more of the great world , and the means of obtaining and motives for ...
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... whole dis- posable force in an expedition to Cape Breton , for the con- quest of Louisburg . This abandonment of the enterprise on which they had confidently relied was a severe disappointment to the States of New England ; nor was ...
... whole dis- posable force in an expedition to Cape Breton , for the con- quest of Louisburg . This abandonment of the enterprise on which they had confidently relied was a severe disappointment to the States of New England ; nor was ...
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... whole continent from being thrown into confusion by their factious ob- stinacy . The justices , he said , might yet avert this extremity by immediately performing their duty , to which no act of assem- bly could lend additional sanction ...
... whole continent from being thrown into confusion by their factious ob- stinacy . The justices , he said , might yet avert this extremity by immediately performing their duty , to which no act of assem- bly could lend additional sanction ...
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... whole British empire . His elevation was hailed with enthusiasm , as the pledge of retributive triumph to his country ; and in effect it speedily checked the fortune of the enemy and occasioned a signal revo- lution in the relative ...
... whole British empire . His elevation was hailed with enthusiasm , as the pledge of retributive triumph to his country ; and in effect it speedily checked the fortune of the enemy and occasioned a signal revo- lution in the relative ...
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... question ; 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 .
... question ; 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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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.